Passive Solar House Plans for Our Off Grid Homestead
Our future home will have many features to reduce our power needs. The floor plan is designed to promote ventilation and to capitalize on passive heating and cooling opportunities. In addition to alternative utilities described in our homestead plan, our passive solar home will feature:
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Landscaping to Promote Agriculture
We have also begun to design the landscape of the area surrounding our home. Our outdoor patio will feature planting beds for decorative desert flora, while our back yard will be cultivated as an orchard for food producing trees. As we build our sustainable homestead we will be experimenting with the native elements in an attempt to revitalize the land around our home. Our projects will include:
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Passive Solar House Plans
For greater details on our passive solar house plans and our landscaping plans, click here.
For more info on our overall homestead plan, click here.
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