Theres an old man in Nebraska who layed big metal pipe in trenches 6ft deep. Ran a big loop. Lets the ground exchange heat with the pipe blowing air through them. Now instead of heating or cooling from -10 or 90 hes working from the constant 65 of the ground. He grows orange trees.
Not once did I see using wood stove in a greenhouse. I see his agenda. However, if he chooses to go just north of Salem Arkansas and see how Amish heat their greenhouse it’s a big old woodstove not a fancy greenhouse, but very productive.
Never thought about composting inside the greenhouse, makes great sense though. I filled my compost bin with grass clippings and next day I measured over 160°F / 70°C with a bbq thermometer. It does drop fast but it's a great idea. In addition, in Canada, they have internal thermal blinds that close inside the greenhouse after sundown to trap the heat, and open at sunrise to let heat in, and they are growing summer produce while outside it's freezing!
Arctopia has a huge greenhouse in Canada. The back walls are 55 gal barrels full of water, south-facing wall is all glass to let sun in. He has a small wood burning stove, but says he doesn't have to use it until the outside temps drop to -20⁰C to -30⁰C.
@@joanhiggin1134 No tradition when it comes to facing your greenhouse toward the southern sun or using denser materials to insulate it, what else did this video show? Nothing.
Seriously everything that was said in this video could have been done in 5 minutes they keep repeating the same thing over and over and over again. So what I did was turn off the volume and start reading the comments. You guys have amazing suggestions! Thank you so much for the Walipini greenhouse and the rocket mass heater. Also for the wood burning stoves!!
Bricks absorb a lot of heat and release it slowly :) Composting effective and sustainable way to emit heat :-) Decomposition = releases heat. =160% Fahrenheit Place around green house and inside ! Right mix of greens, grass, dried leaves and straw. Compost piles along perimeter of green house . Compost bins are good for plants to keep warm. Turn compost regularly!
A point to keep in mind when building a multi-season greenhouse house is that 99% of light comes from the south (in the northern hemisphere), while only 1% comes from the north. But at night, if the walls of the greenhouse is transparent, you'll lose 50% of the heat to the south, and 50% to the north. So, the north side should be opaque and reflective to keep from losing half or more of your heat at night.
There are other considerations that were developed back in the late 60's with the movement back to the land. Taking advantage of geothermal / grow hole Saw tooth Roof configuration and insolated shutters. I am starting a practice this winter as the pond freezes over to take the scyth and harvest the cattails for free insolation once shredded in the hammer mill and installed in the N. Rooves. Shalom
@sojournsojourntraveler1203 Yes, there are a lot I'd things that can be done. But do they need to. Collect energy, and then conserve it as best you can. Why do work and/or spend money that you don't need to do. Of the two, time spent doing work is the only capital we can't acquire more of.
This video is right on time! My greenhouse is elevated and alot of cold air comes in underneath. I really picked up a few good ideas to block the cold air and lock in the heat. Thank you and the Amish. You rock!
Here in New Mexico we know about passive solar. Look up Walapini if you have not already. I built my greenhouse south facing with 2x6 and glass windows 12 ft out from an adobe wall. The wall gets sun on it in winter and acts like a battery holding the heat through the night once warmed. I right now in winter high elevation have figs,tomatoes lettuce cilantro ect..... producing. I highly encourage this as opposed to free standing polycarbonate,glass,wood or plastic exposed on all sides. Best 2 u.
I use clear plastic boxes for my spring seed starts. When it's below freezing overnight, I bring the boxes in. In mid-spring, I open the covers just a bit everyday to keep the plants from over heating. It works well for the few weeks that it takes to give the plants a head start.
@@stacic314 I didn't come up with the idea myself. I found it on another YT channel, but it works great. I've had a lot of success with starting my broccoli that way to protect it from snow.
@lillieberger2883 I found 2 - 275 gallons & 4 - 55 gallons at a yard sale. Turns out they were selling the house. Only cost $300 & they brought them to my house since I lived close by..
Instead of barrels lining the walls, you can do buried containers that can store water underground, and between them you do venting tubing. Same concept as their barrels of water but more efficient. Suburbanbiology channel he's built smaller versions for planters, and is building a larger one for his green house he's putting in.
I didn't know if a single Amish family in Southern Indiana that uses any of this, and in fact, I've been sharing this information with an Amish family I know.
Thank you for this interesting video. Well done. Most of all, I thank you for your TIME in putting this altogether. Our human time on earth goes so fast. I learned a lot.❤❤❤
If you live up north, so the north wall need to be made of a wide wall made of rammed earth, and paint that of black color. The roof need to be made of 3 coat of plastic separates 1 inch from one other. And walls need 2 coat of plastic. Inside of the green house, beside the black wall, you need to create a compost area, made of straw, in a deeper canal. If you want to earn heat, you need to create cameras inside the green house. You need to create like rooms of 15 x 15 f made of plastic walls.
Where I live, in the Midwest, a lot of winter days you don’t see the sun at all. I understand what is said in this video but there has to be more to this than what is said. Like an underground insulated heat storage pit using the black glass to draw the heat from the sun but add rocks to absorb and hold the heat to be drawn through the greenhouse during the night. Heat rises and cold falls.
No, there isn't more to it, even though there could be if one wants. There were many methods and techniques covered in this video - not just solar heat. But there is one thing not mentioned. Every layer of protection added to the plants increases your USDA zone by 1. Thus, add a low tunnel over plants in an high tunnel or other green house and a zone 6 can become a zone 8 environment.
@jamesurzykowski4918 I know right? I live in Northern Canada and most days just this month I get ZERO sunshine and in the winter -20 C to -40 C is the norm for weeks on end! I have frozen my tomatoes in June in the greenhouse. I have huge heat sinks in my greenhouse -40 doesn't care!
I buy the best healthy, short and stocky tomato sets from a Wisconsin Amish green house. They build hoop houses, insulate with snow, and provide heat with a wood stove.
used the exact process for cooling my house in summer using racks of stored water. the cool water absorbs heated air and over nite releases it temps very between 15C and 26C while outdoors its close to zero to 45C no more $100 a week power bills
No one in this video is really an Amish and it vould be very disrespecteble take pictures or videos to them and to them propieties. It's a big lie this post.
It looks as very impressing and as wonderfull possibility , but also something that needs a lot of time and physical power to be possible - maybe some of the ideal would be possible in a minor scale. But it looks very inspiring, 🙏for sharing 🍀💚😊
Use raised beds with rabbit cages under them. The rabbits produce a lot of body heat to keep the greenhouse warm while also producing fertilizer, meat, and fur for warm clothes.
not a concept in canada tho,...do not attempt that here,..where theres no sun for 5 days straight....and ya...im surrounded by omish and mennonites..they own over thousands of acres around me..although these ideas are really helpful..they are not going to stop your plants from dying...-32 celcius for a week with no sun...good luck
layer of fresh manure under the top layers can provide heat during it burns - decomposes. In my area is widely used in nursery for planting seeds of domato, pepper etc. to develop them to saplings.
I am not sure what your motivation is but this is sold world information many know for sure. As for that Nebraska farmer maybe the Amish should take a line from his play book. All good stuif Been at this for half a century. RC
Our local Amish use Skill saws and air nailers but still use Brace and Bit for drilling holes in wood. Also raising camels for milk outside of Montgomery, Pa--get $100 per gallon for camel milk at Geisinger Hospital in Danville. Ever look into a buggy and see the fake dashboard instruments?
Also can make a greenhouse with space for a mulch pile, that heats up as it breaks down. Then you can stockpile organic material before winter, oike dry hay and weeds, then pile it all up and add to it throughout the winter, will stay warm even with no sun.
From various horse rescue centres and the comments they make I just wish the Amish were kinder to their horses and after years of work let their horses retire on Amish fields.
If you fill half a barrel or bucket with mulched Fall leaves and cow poo mixed together then top it with garden soil it will Generate heat all winter due to the leaves and poo composting under the dirt. In the spring you can then mix it all together adjust the ph with additives as needed and boom a nutrient rich spring top off for your garden. Note you should monitor the temperature of your containers closely because the mix can generate enough heat to spontaneously combust if conditions become optimal 😅 a method that can work too well lolz.
Speaking from someone that grew up in the 70’s when we didn’t wear sunscreen, being diagnosed with melanoma will change your thinking about sunscreen, I don’t enjoy wearing sunscreen but it is a small price to pay for not having parts of your body removed surgically.
@@02markcal I do not know your living conditions that led you to this shocking result regarding your health . But when one lives in artificial light ( mostly blue light from the computer) most of the day , feeds on seed oils, doesn’t exercise , has stress and the body that one "offers" to the sun is full of inflammation , it is easier to get sick. Putting on sunscreen and avoiding the sun adds Vitamin D deficiancy to the mix. A recipe for disaster !!
All of which are described here are not sufficient for extended temperatures below zero, particularly when the Sun is shy. A sure way to keep warm is geothermal heating which is more costly at first but will continue to work perpetually.
Most people live in condos or apartments with no yard. The few that do live in a house with some land around it at generally bon a half acre or less. Take note. The Amish have acreage. Not a couple but 10s of acres. They can make this happen because of the real estate they own. Though, the idea of repeating what the Amish do is wonderful, it's not practical for the weekend warrior gardener who works an office job 9 to 5 or the factory/mill worker who works shifts. Many don't even get where that tomato comes from or how much space it requires to grow. If you want sustainable, start with a small bed and build up from there. Grow towers, raised beds and making the most of the space in an urban setting is key and if land is lacking, then allotments as done in some locations in England is important. This allows people the space for a garden, whether it's flowers or vegetables for the home. The key is time and effort. Yes, the Amish are practical. Their lifestyle leaves them no choice. Applying what they do but scaled back is key and fundamental to success in adapting to this sustainability. The Victory garden concept of WW2 or earlier during the Depression would serve as a good template and then adapting the practical methods used by the Amish are key to the success of such an endeavor attempted by those that want a more sustainable lifestyle. Again, not everyone has the space or the time to do what the Amish have done for generations. You want to achieve success, not frustration.
Yes! The key to successful gardening is, "Not how many plants you can put-in, but rather how much time do you have for that one or two plants." (One grafted10ft Early Girl tomato plant 95 pound harvest)
Your comment made me 100% more grateful than I already am to live in a very rural area. I couldn't imagine not having any land and living in a crammed apartment building next to dozens or hundreds of other crammed apartment buildings. I am grateful for all of you who live like that cuz it enables me to live how I do. Without congested cities there wouldn't be the open country. I guess you probably couldn't imagine living like me either. It all kinda works out. I do enjoy traveling (a long way) into Boston, our closest city by train every few years for a change of scenery, but so glad to get back home. Have a good day everyone.
I dont know a single person that lives in a condo, everyone including me has a large yard, 1-5 acres. Even if you dont have land you can grow in buckets, even sprout greens in jars or small trays in the kitchen, mushroom kits etc. and get out of the city asap
really, that comment was way out of place, don't forget to take your poison, unlike the Amish, whom the government attacks for selling food that isn't poisoned, "can't have that"
Compost piles between your green houses add heat, nutrients and free winter food for the chickens. They love the heat and the bugs that live in the compost.
The idea of lining the walls with water barrels defeats the idea of the sun coming in for plant growth. One thing not stated in this video is a greenhouse that when you enter to step down 3-4’ thus using the ground as a heat sink. One more curiosity of this video. If the Amish were using battery powered drills, how did they charge the batteries?
The Peruvians use a fully dug-out greenhouse they call a walipini. Amish folk often have electricity run to the barn but not to the house. It is not that they fully ban electricity, but that they use it very sparingly and only enough to make hard work manageable.
@@geedubb-q1u The Amish are not stereotypical. Different districts have different views as to what is permitted and what is not. That goes for the use of electricity. Some forbid it totally. Others allow it for tools and equipment in shops and barns. A few permit it inside homes for restricted purposes. Don't assume that all Amish are in lock-step.
@@geedubb-q1u Why does it defeat plant growth? Water barrels use solar energy to maintain heat for the plants to grow, and they in no way dimish the light that falls on the plants for their growth.
@@jayejaycurry5485 I'm wondered about that remark, too. I think they may have been saying that when you put a line of barrels against the wall, it blocks the sunlight....does that make sense?
Plant roots OCUPY the space in between the aggregation and fluffy up to tapp the bàcterial biome within those aggregates .soil airation is a big part of how that substrate utilised heat and people forget that a root zone generates heat also and electrical outputs .
Horse manure is excellent for the base, horse manure automatically heat's up, one can even clean a horse stall in colder weather and it actually steams.
Amish won't tell you why they do it this way on heating for century, but from what they are doing, you know it works out pretty well if you want to keep warm in winter. 🤔
Great insights and valuable information, except I don't think many of the images in the video are actually illustrating the points being talked about. To see the actual real world examples of what you are discussing would be much more helpful. I got the idea, but to replicate the various strategies you covered I didn't really get a good sense of how to accomplish implementing these techniques. Straw attracts pests, but Hemp products are pest, insect resistant, just need to protect if from the weather. Thanks for the vid! Cheers
@@msowdal - there are different sects of Amish. Some like the ones by me are very modern. They have smartphones. Other sects are very old order, go barefoot, etc. They aren't all alike.
I was hesitant about clicking this video, but I thought to myself "there's no way they'd make a twenty minute video of what a green house just does." But here I am, feeling pretty foolish
No need to include sunscreen advice in this video. Overuse of sunscreen is the main cause of rampant vitamin D deficiency. However, the actual material on actual greenhouse building is quite comprehensive and informative.
When crocodiles build a nest they use leaves etc etc to incubate within the nest struçture at the right depth .old English hot houses and orangeries used the same principles as inthe video with compost heating .and manures.
I find it difficult to follow, while you speak about greenhouses then show a very tiny greenhouse? or a huge barn being built. I only saw the one greenhouse with blue plastic water barrels - do Amish use plastic? I would think the containers would be out of wood or ? I would rather live in the Greenhouse with the plants for health air and warmth in the Northern States. Even build a green house around a house to keep warm in winter. I love Earthships in Taos, New Mexico all blended together!
@@kallasusort2986 Yes, you could live in a greenhouse. But keep in mind that the humidity can cause things, like books and fabrics, to mold, or iron and steel to rust. It might be better to add the greenhouse onto a dwelling, like an earthship.
Volcanoes. Wildfires. Yea. Post ice age. No more glacier lake Michigan thank you god for taking care of us. Love the 78 percent nitrogen I breathe every day
I can't remember the name of it, but there's plastic sheeting for use on green houses, lets the sun and heat in but not the uv rays that can damage plants and give sunburns to people.
Yes, there is. I looked on line and found where to buy it in my area. When I first put it on my little hoop house (about 4'x7'), I was shocked at how warm it was inside and how long during the winter it stayed warm. I had kale and chard until February. This year I have kale, carrots, cabbage, lettuce and chard, and will try the dark colored thermal mass, and double layering the plastic. What a treat to have free green vegies in winter! My goal is to have them all winter long.
@@dottiebaker6623 Sounds great and I seem to remember they did use a double layer of the plastic and it's suppose to last 5 years but double check on that
This isn't just an Amish thing. Native people have been doing this for centuries in across the continents. Americans (specifically) and other people have just been convinced that they need to be dependent on their government and modern systems to survive and the information is being slowly lost through generations. Before they were killed off and their land was stolen, I'm sure the Native Americans and a whole lot of Africans would've been glad (and actually tried) to teach people this if they had the desire to learn and work with nature instead of against it
This is a crappy video which uses the Amish name to market itself and make itself seem special. This is all basic thermodynamics or common sense. And the B roll footage often has nothing to do with actual Amish people, like all the Witness clips, and clips of non Amish, or even the hydroponic still shot I saw. Definitely a crappy video. Largely inauthentic.
If I had land I'd dig my greenhouse into the ground and have pipe running beneath the ground that run up outside under black tarp or something professional looking and id keep it off the ground above and to the side. Also set it like they did for placement I'd put animal waste and other company beneath this black copper heater thing and the water will pump the warm water beneath the ground below and the temp difference will keep it pumping
If you own a farm... buy a backhoe and dig trenches with polypropylene pipe... make it look like a spread out slinky in the trench the deeper the better (47 degrees in Minnesota, all year long) The bigger the better... if its deep enough no need for glycol and just run a small water pump which is the cheapest source of energy.... Use it to dehumidify in the summer
They are kind of like those Amazonian tribes o pacific islanders who can use the resources available. I tell my children the greatest wisdom I have discovered, "Do what you can with what you have where you are" and "Always take a hostage".
Theres an old man in Nebraska who layed big metal pipe in trenches 6ft deep. Ran a big loop. Lets the ground exchange heat with the pipe blowing air through them. Now instead of heating or cooling from -10 or 90 hes working from the constant 65 of the ground. He grows orange trees.
Yeah, I've seen a number of people doing the same concept and it works for them as well.
I believe it's more like 55. Alliance, Nebraska. Geothermal
Copper pipes?
@@skyetatanka8864copper would be expensive. It can be metal or plastic. The larger the diameter, the better.
This is called a climate battery. There are lots of videos on here showing how to do this.
Brilliant idea!
You have mastered the art of talking lots without saying anything!!
I understand what he is saying.
Not once did I see using wood stove in a greenhouse. I see his agenda. However, if he chooses to go just north of Salem Arkansas and see how Amish heat their greenhouse it’s a big old woodstove not a fancy greenhouse, but very productive.
Never thought about composting inside the greenhouse, makes great sense though. I filled my compost bin with grass clippings and next day I measured over 160°F / 70°C with a bbq thermometer. It does drop fast but it's a great idea.
In addition, in Canada, they have internal thermal blinds that close inside the greenhouse after sundown to trap the heat, and open at sunrise to let heat in, and they are growing summer produce while outside it's freezing!
Arctopia has a huge greenhouse in Canada. The back walls are 55 gal barrels full of water, south-facing wall is all glass to let sun in. He has a small wood burning stove, but says he doesn't have to use it until the outside temps drop to -20⁰C to -30⁰C.
Its not just the Amish who do this! Its old world knowledge.
It's because the Amish has kept the traditions going
@@joanhiggin1134 No tradition when it comes to facing your greenhouse toward the southern sun or using denser materials to insulate it, what else did this video show? Nothing.
Actually, I have Amish friends, and none of them have a greenhouse .
@@The1IronMaidenI guess you didn't watch more than the first 10 minutes. ADHD? You missed a lot of information.
@@jayejaycurry5485 he/she was too busy listening to 'The number of the Beast'
Put chicken manure underneath the tables, cover with straw or leaves. This has been working for my family for about two hundred years.😊
Do you have glass roof or opaque plastic?
@niquio8778 opaque plastic
Do you know where I can see that ?
Hahaha 😅 you know not your ancestors from 53 years
That’s brilliant
Seriously everything that was said in this video could have been done in 5 minutes they keep repeating the same thing over and over and over again. So what I did was turn off the volume and start reading the comments. You guys have amazing suggestions! Thank you so much for the Walipini greenhouse and the rocket mass heater. Also for the wood burning stoves!!
Yeah i was thinking the same 😂.
Shut up and maybe you,ll learn a thing or 2😂 love ya try to stay positive nobody loves a cri😢tic
Let alone "the Amish" invention seems to be to build a greenhouse with transparent roof and walls...
There was a lot of unnecessary commentary in the whole thing, like "earning their own eco-friendly badge".
I watch and always read the comments. They’re so insightful.
- how much can you stretch a story about putting barrels with water into a greenhouse?
- yes
It's like when the teacher asks 5th graders to write a 1000 word essay.
Barrels of compost is the real answer.
A lesson in similes.
This is insane.
The secret is they use a GREENHOUSE. Then use 20 bad analogies to reiterate that GREENHOUSES gets hot in the sun.
Bricks absorb a lot of heat and release it slowly :)
Composting effective and sustainable way to emit heat :-)
Decomposition = releases heat.
=160% Fahrenheit
Place around green house and inside !
Right mix of greens, grass, dried leaves and straw.
Compost piles along perimeter of green house .
Compost bins are good for plants to keep warm.
Turn compost regularly!
A point to keep in mind when building a multi-season greenhouse house is that 99% of light comes from the south (in the northern hemisphere), while only 1% comes from the north. But at night, if the walls of the greenhouse is transparent, you'll lose 50% of the heat to the south, and 50% to the north. So, the north side should be opaque and reflective to keep from losing half or more of your heat at night.
Thank you. Good information. I just bought a used 25 x 40 greenhouse.
There are other considerations that were developed back in the late 60's with the movement back to the land. Taking advantage of geothermal / grow hole
Saw tooth Roof configuration and insolated shutters.
I am starting a practice this winter as the pond freezes over to take the scyth and harvest the cattails for free insolation once shredded in the hammer mill and installed in the N. Rooves.
Shalom
@sojournsojourntraveler1203 Yes, there are a lot I'd things that can be done. But do they need to. Collect energy, and then conserve it as best you can. Why do work and/or spend money that you don't need to do. Of the two, time spent doing work is the only capital we can't acquire more of.
@RedWillowFarmVa Sound like a good start. Good luck, and success.
@@sojournsojourntraveler1203and cattails are edible!! The whole plant!
This video is right on time! My greenhouse is elevated and alot of cold air comes in underneath. I really picked up a few good ideas to block the cold air and lock in the heat. Thank you and the Amish. You rock!
Here in New Mexico we know about passive solar. Look up Walapini if you have not already. I built my greenhouse south facing with 2x6 and glass windows 12 ft out from an adobe wall. The wall gets sun on it in winter and acts like a battery holding the heat through the night once warmed. I right now in winter high elevation have figs,tomatoes lettuce cilantro ect..... producing. I highly encourage this as opposed to free standing polycarbonate,glass,wood or plastic exposed on all sides. Best 2 u.
I use clear plastic boxes for my spring seed starts. When it's below freezing overnight, I bring the boxes in. In mid-spring, I open the covers just a bit everyday to keep the plants from over heating. It works well for the few weeks that it takes to give the plants a head start.
YES! I do that too, with regular generic clear totes, felt so foolish when I realized I could've been doing that all along!
@@stacic314
I didn't come up with the idea myself. I found it on another YT channel, but it works great. I've had a lot of success with starting my broccoli that way to protect it from snow.
Too much cute talk. Get the point and add real details. 😢
repetition too.
Thank you!!!!
Yeah. Couldn't get through it because of that.
I agree.
I'm going to add a couple of rain barrels & plastic over my greenhouse. Seems like the best & most economical method for me. Thanks for the video.
I was looking at rain barrels, they are really expensive right now.
@lillieberger2883 I found 2 - 275 gallons & 4 - 55 gallons at a yard sale. Turns out they were selling the house. Only cost $300 & they brought them to my house since I lived close by..
Instead of barrels lining the walls, you can do buried containers that can store water underground, and between them you do venting tubing. Same concept as their barrels of water but more efficient. Suburbanbiology channel he's built smaller versions for planters, and is building a larger one for his green house he's putting in.
I didn't know if a single Amish family in Southern Indiana that uses any of this, and in fact, I've been sharing this information with an Amish family I know.
Thank you for this interesting video. Well done. Most of all, I thank you for your TIME in putting this altogether. Our human time on earth goes so fast. I learned a lot.❤❤❤
If you live up north, so the north wall need to be made of a wide wall made of rammed earth, and paint that of black color. The roof need to be made of 3 coat of plastic separates 1 inch from one other. And walls need 2 coat of plastic.
Inside of the green house, beside the black wall, you need to create a compost area, made of straw, in a deeper canal.
If you want to earn heat, you need to create cameras inside the green house. You need to create like rooms of 15 x 15 f made of plastic walls.
Thank you!! As a northern girl myself this helps a lot!!
I use a rocket mass heater. Stoke it up once every 2 or 3 days and it's all good.
I take some big stones and paint them black, place in greenhouse. The radiant heat helps ward off freezing. 😊
Where I live, in the Midwest, a lot of winter days you don’t see the sun at all. I understand what is said in this video but there has to be more to this than what is said. Like an underground insulated heat storage pit using the black glass to draw the heat from the sun but add rocks to absorb and hold the heat to be drawn through the greenhouse during the night. Heat rises and cold falls.
No, there isn't more to it, even though there could be if one wants. There were many methods and techniques covered in this video - not just solar heat. But there is one thing not mentioned. Every layer of protection added to the plants increases your USDA zone by 1. Thus, add a low tunnel over plants in an high tunnel or other green house and a zone 6 can become a zone 8 environment.
@jamesurzykowski4918 I know right? I live in Northern Canada and most days just this month I get ZERO sunshine and in the winter -20 C to -40 C is the norm for weeks on end! I have frozen my tomatoes in June in the greenhouse. I have huge heat sinks in my greenhouse -40 doesn't care!
I buy the best healthy, short and stocky tomato sets from a Wisconsin Amish green house. They build hoop houses, insulate with snow, and provide heat with a wood stove.
used the exact process for cooling my house in summer
using racks of stored water. the cool water absorbs heated air and over nite releases it
temps very between 15C and 26C while outdoors its close to zero to 45C
no more $100 a week power bills
In upstate NY//the amish have high tunnels and use woodstoves
No one in this video is really an Amish and it vould be very disrespecteble take pictures or videos to them and to them propieties. It's a big lie this post.
@@gelatoraro2082 Not all Amish shy away from cameras, depends on the colony,
It looks as very impressing and as wonderfull possibility , but also something that needs a lot of time and physical power to be possible - maybe some of the ideal would be possible in a minor scale. But it looks very inspiring, 🙏for sharing 🍀💚😊
I really like what I have seen from the Amish life
they should make ONLY the south side and Only some of the east and west and roof in glass!!!! the greenhouses you show have glass everywhere!!!!
Use raised beds with rabbit cages under them. The rabbits produce a lot of body heat to keep the greenhouse warm while also producing fertilizer, meat, and fur for warm clothes.
not a concept in canada tho,...do not attempt that here,..where theres no sun for 5 days straight....and ya...im surrounded by omish and mennonites..they own over thousands of acres around me..although these ideas are really helpful..they are not going to stop your plants from dying...-32 celcius for a week with no sun...good luck
OR, get some straw or hay bales inside and get them damp. The decomposition creates a lot of heat.
Damp hay can catch fire. They never put it away damp. The water speeds decomposition, creating heat.
Great. Best heat there is… wet bales spontaneously combust.
layer of fresh manure under the top layers can provide heat during it burns - decomposes. In my area is widely used in nursery for planting seeds of domato, pepper etc. to develop them to saplings.
The Amish use propane heaters in the greenhouse
The Amish around me do as well.
An old wood stove can be used as well.
@@haybarn387 They do different things. It's not stereotypical.
Hyperbole! Many, likely most do not use propane heaters.
Thank you for sharing this awesome 👌 tutorial gardening video ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤.
I've used the water trick before and it actually works.
Anyone saying that the heat-source for a jacket is the sun, and not the human body, is not worth my time.
Thanks ChatGPT.
😂
I am not sure what your motivation is but this is sold world information many know for sure. As for that Nebraska farmer maybe the Amish should take a line from his play book. All good stuif Been at this for half a century. RC
Always good to remind people what to do and how it's done. Newbies coming up might now be so well informed ...
The details are for the young folks coming up. They're just learning. And their research can increase success of these processes over time.
Thanks ChatGPT and people who did make original footage for making this video possible..
Did I just witness an Amish man use a power drill? They really have come a long way.
Mennonite
I saw that was wondering myself
Its a contrived video,
@garrykingmusic I was just having some fun. Not everyone is stupid you know.
Our local Amish use Skill saws and air nailers but still use Brace and Bit for drilling holes in wood. Also raising camels for milk outside of Montgomery, Pa--get $100 per gallon for camel milk at Geisinger Hospital in Danville. Ever look into a buggy and see the fake dashboard instruments?
Also can make a greenhouse with space for a mulch pile, that heats up as it breaks down. Then you can stockpile organic material before winter, oike dry hay and weeds, then pile it all up and add to it throughout the winter, will stay warm even with no sun.
I might be part Amish and don't know it. 🤔 I look for ways to do things like this. 😉 Thanks for the video.
Very natural way! Appreciated.
From various horse rescue centres and the comments they make I just wish the Amish were kinder to their horses and after years of work let their horses retire on Amish fields.
Yes, it is criminal
Talk with them
@@reneeriffle2058 I see they try very well their horses.
Yes, lots of Amish horses at kill auctions, it’s horrible. They are malnourished, sick, overworked, no medical care, truly awful conditions.
If you fill half a barrel or bucket with mulched Fall leaves and cow poo mixed together then top it with garden soil it will Generate heat all winter due to the leaves and poo composting under the dirt. In the spring you can then mix it all together adjust the ph with additives as needed and boom a nutrient rich spring top off for your garden.
Note you should monitor the temperature of your containers closely because the mix can generate enough heat to spontaneously combust if conditions become optimal 😅 a method that can work too well lolz.
and don't forget you can have a greenhouse inside of a greenhouse. Now that's easy and nifty
Beautiful presentation. Wonderful thanks
never wear sunscreen!
Totally totally wrong!!!!
Speaking from someone that grew up in the 70’s when we didn’t wear sunscreen, being diagnosed with melanoma will change your thinking about sunscreen, I don’t enjoy wearing sunscreen but it is a small price to pay for not having parts of your body removed surgically.
@@02markcal Wearing sunscreen is like eating various chemicals.
@@02markcal I do not know your living conditions that led you to this shocking result regarding your health .
But when one lives in artificial light ( mostly blue light from the computer) most of the day , feeds on seed oils, doesn’t exercise , has stress and the body that one "offers" to the sun is full of inflammation , it is easier to get sick.
Putting on sunscreen and avoiding the sun adds Vitamin D deficiancy to the mix. A recipe for disaster !!
@@dennismarks6133 Give me chemicals all day long instead of the cancer I had from not applying sunscreen.
All of which are described here are not sufficient for extended temperatures below zero, particularly when the Sun is shy. A sure way to keep warm is geothermal heating which is more costly at first but will continue to work perpetually.
I used to put gallon milk jugs filled with water in my small greenhouse. It is surprising how warm a greenhouse can stay even using cheap materials.
Most people live in condos or apartments with no yard. The few that do live in a house with some land around it at generally bon a half acre or less. Take note. The Amish have acreage. Not a couple but 10s of acres. They can make this happen because of the real estate they own.
Though, the idea of repeating what the Amish do is wonderful, it's not practical for the weekend warrior gardener who works an office job 9 to 5 or the factory/mill worker who works shifts.
Many don't even get where that tomato comes from or how much space it requires to grow.
If you want sustainable, start with a small bed and build up from there. Grow towers, raised beds and making the most of the space in an urban setting is key and if land is lacking, then allotments as done in some locations in England is important. This allows people the space for a garden, whether it's flowers or vegetables for the home.
The key is time and effort. Yes, the Amish are practical. Their lifestyle leaves them no choice. Applying what they do but scaled back is key and fundamental to success in adapting to this sustainability. The Victory garden concept of WW2 or earlier during the Depression would serve as a good template and then adapting the practical methods used by the Amish are key to the success of such an endeavor attempted by those that want a more sustainable lifestyle. Again, not everyone has the space or the time to do what the Amish have done for generations. You want to achieve success, not frustration.
Yes! The key to successful gardening is, "Not how many plants you can put-in, but rather how much time do you have for that one or two plants." (One grafted10ft Early Girl tomato plant 95 pound harvest)
Your comment made me 100% more grateful than I already am to live in a very rural area. I couldn't imagine not having any land and living in a crammed apartment building next to dozens or hundreds of other crammed apartment buildings. I am grateful for all of you who live like that cuz it enables me to live how I do. Without congested cities there wouldn't be the open country. I guess you probably couldn't imagine living like me either. It all kinda works out. I do enjoy traveling (a long way) into Boston, our closest city by train every few years for a change of scenery, but so glad to get back home. Have a good day everyone.
I dont know a single person that lives in a condo, everyone including me has a large yard, 1-5 acres. Even if you dont have land you can grow in buckets, even sprout greens in jars or small trays in the kitchen, mushroom kits etc. and get out of the city asap
Sun screen is poison
It sure is ❤
really, that comment was way out of place, don't forget to take your poison, unlike the Amish, whom the government attacks for selling food that isn't poisoned, "can't have that"
Chemical sunscreens are. Mineral based sunscreens are better, not perfect, but not easily absorbed by the skin and work just as well.
It sure is. I use my own Natural Sunscreen a tan!
I came to write this
An outstanding video - thank you 🙂
Thank you for these incredible insights
You win! YT feels the need to post a note about Climate change. Over the target.
YT is certainly persistent in their political indoctrination.
I know YT always spinning the SPIN
ya, where do we get to reply to that hoax?
Compost piles between your green houses add heat, nutrients and free winter food for the chickens. They love the heat and the bugs that live in the compost.
Wish I grew up like they did in many ways, like doing so many things together.
Water is a cheap way to store thermal energy. Depending on what you are, growing IBC toes or 55 gallon drums can be used to store water.
Water can absorb a lot of heat without getting too hot too fast :-)
The idea of lining the walls with water barrels defeats the idea of the sun coming in for plant growth. One thing not stated in this video is a greenhouse that when you enter to step down 3-4’ thus using the ground as a heat sink. One more curiosity of this video. If the Amish were using battery powered drills, how did they charge the batteries?
GOOD QUESTION !!!
The Peruvians use a fully dug-out greenhouse they call a walipini.
Amish folk often have electricity run to the barn but not to the house. It is not that they fully ban electricity, but that they use it very sparingly and only enough to make hard work manageable.
@@geedubb-q1u The Amish are not stereotypical. Different districts have different views as to what is permitted and what is not. That goes for the use of electricity. Some forbid it totally. Others allow it for tools and equipment in shops and barns. A few permit it inside homes for restricted purposes. Don't assume that all Amish are in lock-step.
@@geedubb-q1u Why does it defeat plant growth? Water barrels use solar energy to maintain heat for the plants to grow, and they in no way dimish the light that falls on the plants for their growth.
@@jayejaycurry5485 I'm wondered about that remark, too. I think they may have been saying that when you put a line of barrels against the wall, it blocks the sunlight....does that make sense?
First 4 minutes says the same thing over and over and over … Jesus what a waste of time
Wonderful thermal barrels . Painting them matt black seems a thought .
Excellent and transformation and evolution
Thank You for sharing, I enjoyed this video!
Geo thermal heating would be the best, in my opinion.
deep rock paths
What geo thermal do they have?
Geothermal is great for those who can afford it, and who have the space on their property. The rest of us, not a solution for us.
@@129gribbz Lots of people have their favourite "best" way to get the job done. There is no best.
Things everybody has to learn on school instead of gouverment input 😮
Plant roots OCUPY the space in between the aggregation and fluffy up to tapp the bàcterial biome within those aggregates .soil airation is a big part of how that substrate utilised heat and people forget that a root zone generates heat also and electrical outputs .
Look up compost heating that was used 100 years ago in The Lost Gardens of Heligan in the south of England to grow Pineapples.
Horse manure is excellent for the base, horse manure automatically heat's up, one can even clean a horse stall in colder weather and it actually steams.
Amish won't tell you why they do it this way on heating for century, but from what they are doing, you know it works out pretty well if you want to keep warm in winter. 🤔
Great insights and valuable information, except I don't think many of the images in the video are actually illustrating the points being talked about. To see the actual real world examples of what you are discussing would be much more helpful. I got the idea, but to replicate the various strategies you covered I didn't really get a good sense of how to accomplish implementing these techniques. Straw attracts pests, but Hemp products are pest, insect resistant, just need to protect if from the weather. Thanks for the vid! Cheers
Shows zero Amish green houses.
I have Amish friends, and none of them have greenhouses.
I like the Amish cordless drill.
Did that one Amish guy get his impact driver on ebay?
Free if you buy a trailer full of plastic barrels.
@msowdal - the Amish I know have trucks & cars & power tools to do their work here in Ohio.
@@PatriciaBates-z7l Then they must be "am" ish
@@msowdal - there are different sects of Amish. Some like the ones by me are very modern. They have smartphones. Other sects are very old order, go barefoot, etc. They aren't all alike.
What difference does that make? He probably got it from RK or TSC, maybe even Wal-Mart. Oh, I see. You're envious and want to get one, too.
I was hesitant about clicking this video, but I thought to myself "there's no way they'd make a twenty minute video of what a green house just does." But here I am, feeling pretty foolish
Love the shot of the Amish guy using a Milwaukee fuel impact driver…lol
You just gotta love those Hamish man .
No need to include sunscreen advice in this video. Overuse of sunscreen is the main cause of rampant vitamin D deficiency. However, the actual material on actual greenhouse building is quite comprehensive and informative.
This is a hard life. Don't be fooled. But it is a satisfying life❤
Doesn't the sun kinda go automatically with a greenhouse?
Yes, it does. That wasn't the point of the video, and only a small part of it. It was about keeping heat in the greenhouse.
When crocodiles build a nest they use leaves etc etc to incubate within the nest struçture at the right depth .old English hot houses and orangeries used the same principles as inthe video with compost heating .and manures.
I find it difficult to follow, while you speak about greenhouses then show a very tiny greenhouse? or a huge barn being built. I only saw the one greenhouse with blue plastic water barrels - do Amish use plastic? I would think the containers would be out of wood or ? I would rather live in the Greenhouse with the plants for health air and warmth in the Northern States. Even build a green house around a house to keep warm in winter. I love Earthships in Taos, New Mexico all blended together!
@@kallasusort2986 Yes, you could live in a greenhouse. But keep in mind that the humidity can cause things, like books and fabrics, to mold, or iron and steel to rust. It might be better to add the greenhouse onto a dwelling, like an earthship.
Volcanoes. Wildfires. Yea. Post ice age. No more glacier lake Michigan thank you god for taking care of us. Love the 78 percent nitrogen I breathe every day
I love a cold draft. Especially in a frozen mug.
How do the Amish combat the chemtrails covering the sunlight?
I can't remember the name of it, but there's plastic sheeting for use on green houses, lets the sun and heat in but not the uv rays that can damage plants and give sunburns to people.
Yes, there is. I looked on line and found where to buy it in my area. When I first put it on my little hoop house (about 4'x7'), I was shocked at how warm it was inside and how long during the winter it stayed warm. I had kale and chard until February. This year I have kale, carrots, cabbage, lettuce and chard, and will try the dark colored thermal mass, and double layering the plastic. What a treat to have free green vegies in winter! My goal is to have them all winter long.
@@dottiebaker6623 Sounds great and I seem to remember they did use a double layer of the plastic and it's suppose to last 5 years but double check on that
very ingenious people
Looong winded explanation. Get to the point
He had to sneak in the car insurance part.
This is about a standard Green House Design. How do they build greenhouses in the US? Out of concrete?
Da. Bunicii mei foloseau tehnicile astea demult. In Romania, si nu erau Amish :))
Huh. I really liked the multiple images of an Amish guy using a cordless drill.
It's the narrator from the car detailing channel again.
I wonder how all this would hold up in Michigan’s zero or negative degree weather, I highly doubt it.
This isn't just an Amish thing. Native people have been doing this for centuries in across the continents. Americans (specifically) and other people have just been convinced that they need to be dependent on their government and modern systems to survive and the information is being slowly lost through generations. Before they were killed off and their land was stolen, I'm sure the Native Americans and a whole lot of Africans would've been glad (and actually tried) to teach people this if they had the desire to learn and work with nature instead of against it
This is a crappy video which uses the Amish name to market itself and make itself seem special. This is all basic thermodynamics or common sense.
And the B roll footage often has nothing to do with actual Amish people, like all the Witness clips, and clips of non Amish, or even the hydroponic still shot I saw. Definitely a crappy video. Largely inauthentic.
If I had land I'd dig my greenhouse into the ground and have pipe running beneath the ground that run up outside under black tarp or something professional looking and id keep it off the ground above and to the side. Also set it like they did for placement I'd put animal waste and other company beneath this black copper heater thing and the water will pump the warm water beneath the ground below and the temp difference will keep it pumping
the Amish will survived the coming apocalypse
If you own a farm... buy a backhoe and dig trenches with polypropylene pipe... make it look like a spread out slinky in the trench the deeper the better (47 degrees in Minnesota, all year long) The bigger the better... if its deep enough no need for glycol and just run a small water pump which is the cheapest source of energy.... Use it to dehumidify in the summer
"the Amish know the sun rises in the East" -- oh dear! Dumb, da-dumb, dumb, dumb!!!
That was pretty funny, wasn't it? But there's more to it than that.....they also know the sun sets in the west. Pretty smart, eh?
@honeydew4576 and they know it stay to the south side of the shy to 😮
Heat the greenhouses with manure. As it compost it generates massive amounts of heat.
Repeat, repeat, repeat. The point could have been made in 2 minutes.
They are kind of like those Amazonian tribes o pacific islanders who can use the resources available. I tell my children the greatest wisdom I have discovered, "Do what you can with what you have where you are" and "Always take a hostage".
Never wear sunscreen, never wear sunscreen