Self-sufficiency
87 videos • 56,304 views • by Kirsten Dirksen
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Nebraska retiree uses earths's heat to grow oranges in snow
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Dryland-harvesting home gathers sun, rain, food, & more
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Bottom-up urbanism solves urgent housing needs in CA vicinity
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Sunken greenhouse wraps home & feeds suburban antifragile co-op
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Detroit retiree grows organic food in a transformed warehouse
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Found a derelict Portuguese hamlet. Settled in to revive it
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Forsaken Joshua Tree hut becomes off-grid folly for stargazing
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Modern home in Mexican plateau revives ancient water harvest
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Dutch greenhouse home harvests energy, food & winter heat
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Designer builds efficient off-grid Passive House in Colorado
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FarmBot: open-source backyard robot for automated gardening
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Aussie couple builds off-grid mobile home with 2 containers
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Real Goods homestead eco-pioneer shares experience/lifestyle
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Tokyo office grows own food in vertical farm
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Arctic ancestral survivalism: on extreme weather Sami wisdom
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Building €1,000 small home in 100 hours from open source design
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Native American wetu: a dome house preceding Bucky Fuller
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What can be learned from a 17th century American town
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Lloyd Kahn on his NorCal self-reliant half-acre homestead
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Farm-to-table organic produce growing in dense Hong Kong
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Teens create automated aeroponics garden kit with NASA tech
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Containertopia: cargo container tiny home town on Oakland lot
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Earthships: self-sustaining homes for a post-apocalyptic land?
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Tiny Texas Houses' "Willy Wonka" on making magic reusing wood
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Aquaponics greenhouse kit is local food turnkey solution
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Self-sustaining farm for Wisconsin cold via backyard aeroponics
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LA ecovillage: self-reliance in car-free urban homestead
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NorCal veteran coder customizes off-grid home with sensors
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Art of living in a Dordogne tiny mud home with living roof
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Backyard aquaponics as self-sustained farm in (sub)urban LA
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Off-grid, handcrafted life on Oregon farm & workshop
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Internet of Farming: Arduino-based, backyard aquaponics
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Biointensive mini-farming: grow more food in less space
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Urban forest erupts in San Francisco's Tenderloin
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Off-grid float cabin: retirement tiny dream home in BC wilderness
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Internet of food: Arduino-based, urban aquaponics in Oakland
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Dyes from your kitchen & garden: "permacouture" howto
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Medieval Spanish ghost town becomes self-sufficient ecovillage
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150-mile wardrobe: local fiber, real color, P2P economy
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Backyard aquaponics: DIY system to farm fish with vegetables
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Rooftop hydroponics on NYC: serving produce from upstairs
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Auto-riego casero con sensores libres para huertos urbanos
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Edible yard: organic veggies & foraging for palatable weeds
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Amaranth: a superfood for the backyard gardener
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Scion exchanges: ancient cloning of fruit trees for the modern backyard
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1st rule of gardening: build up the soil
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Heirlooms, hybrids, non-GMO corn & breast of Venus tomatoes
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Water-only access lake cabin & vacuum-flush compost toilets
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The world from our window: seclusion as introspection opportunity?
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How we live now: tips from offgridders, tinyhousers, homesteaders
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How will we live? urban prepping & rural resilience’s momentum
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Using solar, cob, hemp-crete in stunning off-grid compound
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Valldaura Labs culls restored forest for tiny home & biomass
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DIY redwood estate: home + yurt + cottage + micro winery
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Couldn't find his dream popup micro-camper, built it instead
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Solo living in a “camper-airplane” as architecture of collapse
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Solo living in a “camper-airplane” as architecture of collapse
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Eric Maundu's home-aquaponics can grow veggies & fish anywhere
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New Earthships capture more energy, water & food at lower cost
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Towable, off-grid Ecocapsule gathers energy/water anywhere
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Thrifty couple builds self-reliant, $60K homestead & workshop
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Outdoor voluntary simplicity & survivalism in Santa Fe hills
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Spartan Alpine cabin conceals back-to-basics building tips
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Built Bill Gates’ home, then his own dream bunk-studio
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Mad scientist's homestead is parking size, off-grid system
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Homestead Paradise: got barren land, boosted it at a profit
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Bought rocky lot, created megalith home amid boulders
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Made FarmBot home-kit. Now helps NASA on farming
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Rundown apartments reborn as food-forest coliving Agritopia
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Young priest turns forsaken farm into paradise homestead
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Old delivery truck outside, fast-transformer homestudio inside
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30 years self-reliant: family $10K/year homestead & dugout
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7 friends built restoration ecovillage. Outcome 50 years on
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Oldtimer got wild rocky land, started NorCal off-grid Watertopia
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Clever microhome perches over compact food forest outside Barcelona
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Turns barren suburban lot into high-yield Microfarm & YT studio
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Tall Microsoft retirees build semi-truck "penthouse on wheels"
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English cave dwellers that inspired Tolkien were evicted
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Arctic Homestead: 10 years living off the Alaskan wilderness
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Homeless shepherd shares hunter-gatherer diet & survival tips
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High-yield Solar Greenhouse harvests food & energy (timelapse)
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Went homeless. Done Guerrilla Grazing by choice ever since
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Family-style ecovillage is co-housing at heart of huge food-forest 🥗
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Building budget homestead little by little in worthless, remote (is)land
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Thrifty couple grows all their food in their food-forest backyard
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Family's self-built greenhouse home in farm country has indoor orchard 🌳
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Dream Domestead uses water & geothermal for all-season paradise in Spain
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