Growing tropical fruit in the freezing mountains of Colorado without heating
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- čas přidán 23. 01. 2024
- Step into the magical world of the 4 season Greenhouse in Colorado. Witness the stunning variety of tropical fruits and plants that Justy has been growing for over 20 years. From bananas to figs, avocados to coffee, this greenhouse is a true paradise. Discover the secrets of how to grow your own food and heat your home with this incredible greenhouse. Don't forget to hit that subscribe button for more inspiring videos!
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This man is living the life. Wishing him many more long years.
Just bought 40 acres in Colorado's high desert! Can't wait to make it look like this!
Nice where at?
@@StefanoCreatinilet me guess, the San Luis valley 😊
Paonia!@@justinsane7128
love the gun owners out there@@justinsane7128
@@justinsane7128 That place is a dead zone, lol
This guy is living the dream. Awesome. He looks great for his age too.
I am in CO as well! This is such a dream of mine -- having a mountain greenhouse, farm, and be completely self-sustainable as much as possible. Thank you for sharing the magic.
It all starts with a dream. I just bought my farm after being broke 3 year ago. Releasing video on that soon
It’s beautiful down by the river. This area has changed so much and has become unaffordable for many, sadly. Enjoyed the video.
Thanks, that is sadly true. Its hard to buy in Paonia now.
I lived in Crawford for a few years but moved to an area closer to Telluride
I feel blessed to live in one of the most beautiful areas in the lower 48s.
Lived there when I was younger,Picked fruit every year ,paid for our own school clothes and supplies. Loved it there!
Pretty much all of north America has become unaffordable for the middle class or poor.
My cousins grew up in Panina, my uncle was a teacher. I remember when I was very young my uncle would bring loads of produce to sell at farmers markets every summer. I miss those days!
It would be awesome if the U.S. could establish hundreds of these set-ups so we would be truly self-sustaining year-round, no matter what happens!
Our government would never make money, and sadly, that's the only thing the US government wants.
Not even that, just any country that can't grow year round
The government does not want to help you, hello
@@MartRichard-hm6hv…except for social security, highways, defense, medicare, medical research, hospitals, stabilizing the banking system, managing public lands, paying for large parts of the education system, etc, etc. So yeah, no help at all. /s
you are a fool if you think any government and especially this one is actually showing up for us in any of those sectors you mentioned- they poison us and then charge us to pay for our medicine with money we earned breaking our backs just so that corporations that own the gov can keep exploiting us and using us as pawns .. idk dawg shits iffy and you sound indoctrinated or blissfully ignorant.. not sure which @@rpdx3
This is awesome 👏 🎉🎉
I can say from a place of knowledge, he designed and built this place exceptionally well. I a 3rd gen Coloradoan all too familiar with the high desert and have dreams of mine own simliar place, but more of an ecovillage/transitional town.
you got this!
Nice set up, tropical fruit trees and year round tomatoes , I'd enjoy that!
Yay! Love this. We micro farm on 2/3 acre in New Castle with 21 fruit trees, table grapes, huge garden, and 18 laying hens.
good for you guys
Love the seating area in the greenhouse! I'd spend my mornings there drinking a coffee and enjoying the view ☕🌄
Me too!!
What a dream! This video inspires me to try my green thumb and maybe put up a greenhouse.
Stunning! Wow what a green house. I think I’ll definitely be building one at my next house when I move. Fascinating
Absolutely awe-inspiring. The world could use many more people like this.
This is one of the most beautiful gardens I ever seen in a greenhouse .❤
This guy is a genius it’s cool he worked to make his dream come true what a beautiful place
Bad ass Dad
A genius grows what works in their climate. If someone in Hawaii put cold tolerant fruit trees in a refrigerator, in order to get them to work… it would be a silly waste of resources. Just like this lol
Half his crops were doing nothing
@@EBOVyut Well like he said he's not doing it for profit, just to experiment and have fun. I agree some of those plants looked a bit neglected though. I think the problem is more that than his climate, I've seen plenty of people on youtube grow tropical plants way out of their climate and they looked better than that. I've done it myself even, but on a much smaller scale with PVC hoophouses. I wouldn't go as far as genius but I applaud the man for living his dream.
Also running a fridge is a LOT more power consumption than using using passive solar energy to make your plants viable so that's not really a fair comparison.
If you have more money than common sense you play and have fun but are unproductive. This guy would have a hard time surviving off of what fruit he produces. Just another example of how we americans live in a dream world and think we are living "the dream." O well have fun playing while you still can. As for me I'm using similar techniques to produce real food for myself and others. (Not for money) Just to live well.
He's retired, sounds like he has plenty of money from his previous career. What's wrong with a guy fucking around enjoying his retirement? I don't think he's trying to live off the land either. Making a hobby into a job is a good way to suck all the fun out of it.
Not that I have the home now, but I had a home located in northern New York with a 12 x 15 sunroom with 28 tons of river rock under the concrete floor that PVC pipework as duct in it. We pretty much could heat the house with that. But I bought Washington Dwarf Orange tree that produced about 30-50 oranges a year with me doing manual pollination. Also grew pineapples that frankly were much better tasting than what you buy in the store. I didn't pick them until they turned yellow so they were supper juicy. Pineapples will actually send out shuts from the bottom after the pineapple is picked and I just broke them off and stuck them in the ground for the next harvest.
Awesome build. Unfortunately he spent $5,000 on polycarbonate sheets... by my math those are ~ $15k - $20k in todays dollars. Still envious though
Yeah, that’s true, probably more realistic number there.
they do last for a long time
The way house prices are, a small used car worth of polycarbonate sheets ain’t that scary
I counted 24 4-foot panels on the roof. He said it was "quadruple wall polycarbonate" which I assume means twinwall panels on the inside and outside of the stud walls. 12'x4' twinwall is under 60$/sheet when bought by the pallet, so 72 panels assuming a 12' rafter and 6' front window. 5000$ worth of polycarbonate seems right. Inflation has impacted a lot of things, but engineering plastics is one thing that has benefited greatly from process automation over the last 20 years.
He did it 20 years ago
In Australia here, this is brilliant and something I desperately want to do in the very near future. X
True American hero
Dude is living my dream😮
Same!
Don’t give up on your dream❤
@@Mercedes65 I’m still young 😊
If I would’ve known what it could be like, I would’ve done it 10yrs ago instead of 2020 (50yo). 100% with it.
Don’t know what you don’t know until you know you didn’t know it.
Try to make your dreams come true in 20 years
Nice place you built. I came SO close to putting a south greenhouse on my place like you did when I was building my place, but elected to not do it because I couldn't figure a way of keeping the snow falling off the roof from smashing the greenhouse windows below. As I see, you came up with a super simple solution to that - just have the first few feet of the lower roof be metal roofing. Simple - elegant - and you got your greenhouse! Really nice place you made!
1:30 "I have a hard time taking something out once I put it in"
me too my friend lmfao
The 12 years old swiss chard is crazy! I didn't know they would live that long
Thank you for sharing and also to Justy. Thats how we should all live. The world would be a better place.
Couldn't agree more!
This guy is incredibly wise, on all accounts.
That's my dad!
He’s done a great job developing that house, greenhouse & land. Thanks for sharing!
This is wonderful! Very happy for this man and his wife. I always loved Colorado and lived near Durango decades ago. Thank You for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it
Our olives produced the second year. Very little but I believe they need to be cross pollinated. Our neighbors have one too.
What a cool place.
quite warm actually
Now this is incredible
Red delish happen to be my favorite apples.
Happy growing from Wisconsin just started my banana plants year ago and few pineapple plants
Seems like that gentleman can teach us alot.
When you design and build homes for a living you know exactly what you want. This dudes house is probably better build than 99% of the homes today.
Awesome inspiring video and a great teacher to boot. Beautiful setup!
I wanna be like this man when I grow up.
Thank you so much for sharing.
Wow! This was amazing! Thank you, for what you do❤
I adore the seating arrangement in the greenhouse! I also love the idea of having battery as a power storage for the farm too. Thank so much for the video.
The only problem with the seating in the greenhouse is that you only have about an hour between too cool and too hot.
This was very inspiring! Im in my mid 40s about to embark on a new venture. So cool to see someone that started over in his 50s and what he has created over 20 years.
What a legend
Some have a dream for life. This is the closest I have seen in video to mine. For me it’s about the work put into it having a greater purpose and all of it being balanced and symbiotic.
Totally agree on the pesto question!
Great video! Thank you for the tour, Justy!
loved everything about this! thank you
Wow!! You can feel his passion & commitment in every word. So cool he's doing something like this. Never thought it was possible. Learning a lot. Thanks for sharing this story! ❤👏😃
Its incredibly practical to do!
Absolutely! 👍
What a beautiful farm & home you created. The fruit & veggies look amazing. That river is beautiful & a great resource. Love the way you designed your home too. ❤
This is a recurring daydream of mine. So cool to see someone actually do it.
I love everything about this video❣️
Super.
This was awesome! Thank you.
This was great to see! Love all the passive stuff!
😊❤loved it great video and lots of great info
Thanks so much!
What a dream house in a dream location!
What a dream!
Totally awesome!
Impressive operation! He's a smart guy!
Great video! Really enjoyed the tour, Justy's place is awesome.
thanks, Justy was happy to share
Man that would be awesome to have that much space to work with! I've been doing a series I call "Doomsday Garden" up here in the high Colorado Rockies, it's definitely a science up here with the short grow season, not to mention a long character growing experience 😎
this one super impresses me - great job!
Your videos are gold❤
Freedom is what I see!!!
Love the hard yards ✌️❤️
Great video as always, keep 'em coming!
The follow-up tour was amazing. He's ahead of me on a few projects and this was very useful to see. I'm considering a remodel on our home's southside for a passive solar tropical fruit room, I grow bananas, citrus, avocados, surinam cherry, etc. here in Oregon. I thought sweet potatoes were not an option due to cold but this gives me courage to try again.
Beautiful set up!
just bought 15 acres in central michigan. This is part of my plan.
Beautiful homestead and very creative design well done sir!
awesome
Grafted sweet sweet kumquats are amazing
This is awesome! I own a coffee shop in Denver and would love to buy those coffee beans! Colorado grown coffee, something I never thought I would taste in my life!
Which shop?
Chicory coffee might work but probably won’t sell much lol
Great stuff!
What an incredible man
Where i live, the sun is in the north. However you want to shade those windows as much as possible. Summer temperatures are 35-45°C. So you want to keep as much heat out of the house as possible. Deep winter really only lasts a month or so and rarely gets below zero
This is amazing! Remarkable
Awesome 👍🏼😎
Wow
excellent video... very informative
Very cool
I Love this😊
aww man this is cool as hell, he did a kick ass job!
Nice place.
I live here in Colorado. I need that house. And I'd modernize the hell out of it. 🤩
So great! Wish I could come here
Wow not garden but a big farm amazing green farm
Those purple morning glories grow like weeds in my yard! I’d love to have those pink ones too
That dude is sharp! Inspiring!!
how does he keep it warm in the winter? it's going to freeze 1 hr after sundown.
I’m a little southeast of and have a slightly younger story line than Justy. This is inspiring and I couldn’t have made a better decision being here. It’s not for everyone all the time, but then again neither am I. 👍🏼
Temps going from 120 degrees during day to 40 degrees at night sounds like a recipe for mold and mildew for some species. Impressive he is able to avoid this issue!
You would be surprised!
You are very good ❤
Olive trees can produce way earlier, the thing is they're not tropical but Mediterranean. They need cold, even freezing temps sometimes to cycle and produce the flowers. It's just stupid to keep them inside imo
Ben's dad is a legend 💛
LFG
love the goji berry comments from you both. lol
I'm down in Pagosa. We have 3 Community Grow Domes, They have bananas and pineapples growing in one. I would love to have one and grow all those summer fruits.
Good ol Paonia.. A very special place. Check out Big B's!
This was one of the most inspirational videos I’ve seen all year.
Red Delicious is my favorite apple.
1:40 I’m not convinced 😂