This is one of the most awesome tiny house homesteads you are going to see anywhere. I love the way they have designed & built to fit into the real world conditions of a desert. Compared to the typical ginormous water & energy guzzling house that other Americans seem to prefer, this tiny house homestead is light years more efficient, less impactful and more sustainable. My wife & I want to do something like this on our land in a mountain forest in Virginia, so I hope we can learn some creative engineering ideas from watching Derrick & Hannah's well-made videos. Very inspiring!
Dude.... for 35 large, you could buy a good used travel trailer, build a pole shed for over it (shade & rain collection), and do all that other stuff, with money left over.....
This amazes me, I just recently took my first trip to California and flying over the desert seeing people living out there peaked my interests. So cool to see videos about this!
i love arizona because of its freedom and lack of zoning restrictions! plentyful views and can truly live off grid, self sufficient and debt free~ i loev arizona!!! i just bought land in mohave county and cant wait to do the same thing
Fantastic job! I give you an A+. Proud of you kids! Please be really watchful of your fur babies. That's day and night. Hawks and many other wild critters,snakes.....
LOVE seeing a familiar couple. Their home and outside grounds are just AMAZING. Derrick is an old genius in a young body. Absolutely brilliant and motivated he is! Bravo!
I love Derrick and Hannah!!❤ I want to say they have both grown since my first introduction to them when the lived in the apartment. Great couple. How do find used lithium batteries from Smart cars?
I was loving them initially and actually unsubscribed after the second or third name change. I felt like they lost touch with their audience and started being rather unrealistic. Like Pippi they have some good content but she's another one that just sorta lost touch.
I love coming across videos by people who are intelligent, environmentally responsible, interesting, nice, and doing things the way I want to do them - simply, cleanly, minimally. 👍🏻😉 Subscribed!! Best, Adam
Watch some of their more recent videos. They're both tired of the tiny house and are currently building a far larger home (using insulated concrete forms). While the traditional house they're building will not use city water (they had a HUGE tank installed), it will be using grid power (with plans to install a grid-tied solar system down the road).
@@michrech That's because they didn't do enough planning when it came to the size of the actual house itself. 330 sq feet for 2 people may seem fun and cozy at first but eventually they are going to get tired of being in each others way and not having some room to breathe, year one is cool but by year 2 or 3 your just sick of being around each either. It's too small long term when it comes to your mental health. My Financee' and I just bought 6 acres in the Colorado River in Northwestern Arizona and are building a 18x25 (450 sq ft) tiny house out of a prefab Garage. 450 sq ft is still small for 2 people but we have figured out ways to get around being on top of each other all the time. Were building an actual bedroom with actual walls and a door instead of a sleeping loft so when one of us want some "Me time" we can go taker a bubble bath or go into the bedroom and watch some t.v. or walk down to the river and wet a line or just stare at the river. As a couple you have to have some time away by yourself for your mental health and most tiny houses don't allow that because even going up into the sleeping loft to be by yourself your STILL in the same room and the bathroom is so small you can't go in there either.
Wonderful build. Save on your soap bill by using lye soap. Formula: All wood burned put ash in a bucket (Pot ash plus water and grease) Use grease from fat like bacon Mix with water The ash adds nutrients and nitrate back to your plants Please look up some more resources to make sure not leaving anything out.
It would need a substantial structure to keep it from flying away in a storm... he actually just tied it to cinder blocks and built up a berm around it to keep the wind from getting under it. Building it higher would have more than doubled the cost and he was working by himself so it would have been a lot harder.
Why don’t you see the solar panels used as a patio awning or a shed roof very often? The roof on the ground to catch water could be a rather large building. Carport or shade cover for mini home
I also noticed VERY VERY THIN layer of mulch in your garden. Here in N TX where we can get 35" rain a year I still keep all 8 of our 25x50 ft beds covered in at least 1 1/2 to 2 FEET of mulch...hay, straw, or drive around town & if anyone still has a lawn & bags clippings, or go to a local golf course if they bag the grass off the greens & bring it home. If they r still green you MUST let them turn brown before u put them in beds or they will burn plants/trees. Go to any ranches or farms nearby, ask if u can clean up around wherever they have been feeding hay. You'll get benefit of pre-'fertilized' material as well that u can put directly around trees/plants. You can really use anything, even weeds, because if mulch is thick enough the weeds can't grow thru, or if they do they pull out like a dream.
Nice build . The desert is a great place for the solar system cause of all the sun u get . Collecting the rain water is a great idea. But I don think I could deal with the heat .
Good video -lots of useful information. As an Arizona resident I was wondering what do you use to keep cool in the summer? I know a lot of the time you can use an EVAP or swamp cooler but during the monsoon season that doesn't work very well.
Very inspiring! I need to figure out how to get back to AZ, there is something about it , I maybe had to move away to appreciate what it is , now all I can think about is get me back home!!! the dry heat is great as long as you are blessed enough to have a.c. Some live just fine with a swamp cooler and only suffer during monsoons
If this annual temperature chart is accurate the summer heat in Tucson is much lower than I anticipated:www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=zncVW5iWFILatQXXuqyICQ&q=annual+temperatures+tucson+az&oq=ANNUAL+TEMPERATURES+OF+TUS&gs_l=psy-ab.1.1.0i22i30k1j0i22i10i30k1j0i22i30k1l4j0i22i10i30k1j0i22i30k1l3.4352.14859.0.19484.31.28.2.0.0.0.236.3804.0j22j3.25.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..4.26.3684.0..0j0i131k1j0i10k1j33i22i29i30k1.0.wAYMaMOta5I
You should check out VeganAthlete's channel. He turned his yard around his house in Phoenix Arizona into an Oasis garden of paradise with all kinds of fruit trees and vegetables and other edible plants. He even had a koi pond. It was amazing... but he recently sold it. He still has all the videos about it on his channel though. He said all the shade made it much cooler and he used a lot of special perma-culture techniques to conserve water.
One thing, I would have put the rain Harvesting roof a higher off the ground for TWO reasons. One to keep the Dirt off and out of your containment tanks and two, to keep Rattlers out of your area. They LOVE things like this and when the sun goes down, they are out hunting..as in YOUR YARD. Also, it would have made a great place to park your vehicles and also for more Storage or over an outside Shed to help keep it a little cooler. Just saying.
This is true blue off grid living.. You're not only reducing your carbon footprint, but also 'infusing' more life in a desert landscape! This is what the focus should be for anybody aspiring to live off grid.. Go transform a unusable space into a usable one.. Rather than moving in green pastures and clearing off things to claim off grid living.. All the best y'all!
Wow! Great video and great job! Thank you for sharing this! We all need to figure out how to survive this economy. May I ask about the 40 acres and how did you go about finding this land. Can you recommend some tips on how to find and buy land and any things to watch out fpr etc. Thanks so much!
Cherry and apple in the desert? Wow, I thought they were cooler temp trees? We do a lot of citrus here, I think almonds do pretty well. That’s cool, I hope it works.
I know this is an old video but my question for you is how often do you encounter deadly snakes. I love the concept of living in Arizona but dealing with snakes absolutely freaks me out.
Nice Hews ... where the hell are you from? lol. Great job on the place. You had to throw a good bit of money at it. A cost breakdown would be cool to understand.
Living in Pima County with 100+ degree summers, air conditioning's a must, but I don't see it in this house. Did they have air conditioning? Also, what's their property tax? And the urine to garden's a clever re-use, but are there any scent issues having that run-off to the garden in front of the house?
Looking good, I don't think even you realize how important this style of living is going to be very soon. The 'catchment surface however puzzles me; For double the cost, it could have been a real roof, one you could walk under and put to use, plus you get the additional water pressure. Still, you've incorporated most of the common sense elements missing from conventional res. architecture. Good job. I've been Sketchuping numerous energy efficient models for deserts, and have pretty much decided a basement is necessary.
I've been looking at 40-70 acres in northern Arizona... How far are you from a major metropolitan area? I'm in Cincinnati now and some of these properties that would even allow this are in highly remote areas. How do you upload videos? Do you commute to a large city for work? All I see if towns with 4 or 5 buildings haha
I think he said the solar setup was about $15,000 the rain roof was about $3000, the water tanks were about $11,000.. he talks about all the costs in several videos on his channel. I'm not 100 percent sure but I think he paid about $35,000 for that tractor and all the attachments... They're really eco-conscious and all about sustainability but they don't do anything on the cheap. They are living within their means paying cash for everything as they go so I can't fault them on that.
Why put a giant roof system on the ground to catch water when you could have put it over (maybe 3 ft above) the house? Let it collect rain water AND provide huge amount of shade from the desert sun which would lower your a/c usage? Just curious
the cost to put that up on posts would be less than $700 dollars. Wooden telephone poles are like $60 each and you'd cut them in half so you wouldn't need to buy as many! They live on 40 acres, those water tanks are $1800-$3000 each, the solar system is top of the line. They clearly weren't hurting for $700.
I can't see how it is currently built but it looks like all its lacking is the "legs" to get it up off the ground and into the air which couldn't have cost that much compared to the rest of it. I was just curious on the thought process. Being in the desert I would assume the house gets hot as hell during the day without the heavy usage of the a/c any shade would help
Putting it on the ground because of high winds I can see that being a possible reason. Although the a/c is on solar it still will cost you in shorter lifespan of the a/c and battery dranage/life because its always on. Atleast that would be my thought process if had been me building it. I still havent heard from him to get his reasoning behind it.
My goal is to live off the grid in my skoolie conversion. Do you think you could do this off the grid type of lifestyle?
Looks like paradise to me.
I would leave New York City in a hot minute for a place like that 😃
Wish I could, the cost stops me dead in my tracks. However your whole set-up is inspiring. My plans are less expansive, but along the same idea.
we are crushing the off grid lifestyle with no solar =)
I am and I do for the past 30 years. Tho I did find a tiny house way to small on a working homestead.
What makes a tiny house amazing to me is the land you have around it, and you guys nailed it. I've always wanted to live off grid desert or forest.
This is one of the most awesome tiny house homesteads you are going to see anywhere. I love the way they have designed & built to fit into the real world conditions of a desert. Compared to the typical ginormous water & energy guzzling house that other Americans seem to prefer, this tiny house homestead is light years more efficient, less impactful and more sustainable. My wife & I want to do something like this on our land in a mountain forest in Virginia, so I hope we can learn some creative engineering ideas from watching Derrick & Hannah's well-made videos. Very inspiring!
Dude....
for 35 large, you could buy a good used travel trailer, build a pole shed for over it (shade & rain collection), and do all that other stuff, with money left over.....
This amazes me, I just recently took my first trip to California and flying over the desert seeing people living out there peaked my interests. So cool to see videos about this!
i love arizona because of its freedom and lack of zoning restrictions! plentyful views and can truly live off grid, self sufficient and debt free~ i loev arizona!!! i just bought land in mohave county and cant wait to do the same thing
Fantastic job! I give you an A+. Proud of you kids! Please be really watchful of your fur babies. That's day and night. Hawks and many other wild critters,snakes.....
They have a great setup with all their different off grid systems. You can tell they put a lot of thought into their build.
LOVE seeing a familiar couple. Their home and outside grounds are just AMAZING. Derrick is an old genius in a young body. Absolutely brilliant and motivated he is! Bravo!
This is my favorite tiny house/land/water/energy resource. He's awesome.
and good peeps
Awesome video man! I love all that you have achived on your homestead. Its just amazing. Greetings from Andreas on Off Grid Sweden
They have an interesting channel. They are very generous about teaching others through their videos.
That's cool! Not every girl would agree to live that type of lifestyle. You guys are awesome!
I love Derrick and Hannah!!❤ I want to say they have both grown since my first introduction to them when the lived in the apartment. Great couple. How do find used lithium batteries from Smart cars?
Rita Broils craigslist
They have grown for sure
I was loving them initially and actually unsubscribed after the second or third name change. I felt like they lost touch with their audience and started being rather unrealistic. Like Pippi they have some good content but she's another one that just sorta lost touch.
vexedne: She has her own channel focused on Vegan cooking and health.
Rita, I'm super aware, I think everybody who's seen then is very, very aware of their dietary choices.
I love coming across videos by people who are intelligent, environmentally responsible, interesting, nice, and doing things the way I want to do them - simply, cleanly, minimally. 👍🏻😉 Subscribed!! Best, Adam
They are proof that a well thought out set up can bring peace and comfort! nice vid!!
Watch some of their more recent videos. They're both tired of the tiny house and are currently building a far larger home (using insulated concrete forms). While the traditional house they're building will not use city water (they had a HUGE tank installed), it will be using grid power (with plans to install a grid-tied solar system down the road).
@@michrech That's because they didn't do enough planning when it came to the size of the actual house itself. 330 sq feet for 2 people may seem fun and cozy at first but eventually they are going to get tired of being in each others way and not having some room to breathe, year one is cool but by year 2 or 3 your just sick of being around each either. It's too small long term when it comes to your mental health. My Financee' and I just bought 6 acres in the Colorado River in Northwestern Arizona and are building a 18x25 (450 sq ft) tiny house out of a prefab Garage. 450 sq ft is still small for 2 people but we have figured out ways to get around being on top of each other all the time. Were building an actual bedroom with actual walls and a door instead of a sleeping loft so when one of us want some "Me time" we can go taker a bubble bath or go into the bedroom and watch some t.v. or walk down to the river and wet a line or just stare at the river. As a couple you have to have some time away by yourself for your mental health and most tiny houses don't allow that because even going up into the sleeping loft to be by yourself your STILL in the same room and the bathroom is so small you can't go in there either.
My guy repping that ETHCS gear, Incredible homestead!:D
great job on your tiny house I live offgrid in Puna Hawaii for the past 12 years..solar and cathement system ..
Beautiful ! Enjoy every moment living your dreams.
Mold in the desert!!! Never. Ever. Cool property. Well done video. Thank you for sharing!
Tons of dust though.
Good on them . What a cool couple .
Wonderful build.
Save on your soap bill by using lye soap.
Formula:
All wood burned put ash in a bucket
(Pot ash plus water and grease)
Use grease from fat like bacon
Mix with water
The ash adds nutrients and nitrate back to your plants
Please look up some more resources to make sure not leaving anything out.
I figured if you build a roof . you would make it high enough to get under it! To keep the sun off. A place in the shade can be nice.
It would need a substantial structure to keep it from flying away in a storm... he actually just tied it to cinder blocks and built up a berm around it to keep the wind from getting under it. Building it higher would have more than doubled the cost and he was working by himself so it would have been a lot harder.
Wow! Just wow!
YOU have an amazing set up and off grid. One of the best so far that I have seen. Wow.
Why don’t you see the solar panels used as a patio awning or a shed roof very often?
The roof on the ground to catch water could be a rather large building. Carport or shade cover for mini home
Ive seen people do that on skoolies
Awesome!! You even have Gaz's new cookbook on deck!!!!!
This was a very excellent very high grade informative video,
I'm quite impressed, congrats.
I also noticed VERY VERY THIN layer of mulch in your garden. Here in N TX where we can get 35" rain a year I still keep all 8 of our 25x50 ft beds covered in at least 1 1/2 to 2 FEET of mulch...hay, straw, or drive around town & if anyone still has a lawn & bags clippings, or go to a local golf course if they bag the grass off the greens & bring it home. If they r still green you MUST let them turn brown before u put them in beds or they will burn plants/trees. Go to any ranches or farms nearby, ask if u can clean up around wherever they have been feeding hay. You'll get benefit of pre-'fertilized' material as well that u can put directly around trees/plants. You can really use anything, even weeds, because if mulch is thick enough the weeds can't grow thru, or if they do they pull out like a dream.
Nice build . The desert is a great place for the solar system cause of all the sun u get . Collecting the rain water is a great idea. But I don think I could deal with the heat .
Thanks. fyi music is distracting.
Good video -lots of useful information.
As an Arizona resident I was wondering what do you use to keep cool in the summer?
I know a lot of the time you can use an EVAP or swamp cooler but during the monsoon season that doesn't work very well.
Very inspiring! I need to figure out how to get back to AZ, there is something about it , I maybe had to move away to appreciate what it is , now all I can think about is get me back home!!! the dry heat is great as long as you are blessed enough to have a.c. Some live just fine with a swamp cooler and only suffer during monsoons
Amazing! Beautiful!
Dude I love you set up that is awesome I'm off the grid ER love it
You guys are awesome and I love the features you've added to the homestead!
Surprised there isn't a link to her cooking channel
krulty High carb Hannah
Link for Handeeman: th-cam.com/channels/b0s0qC96lCcx2pO2za6mcw.html
Link for wife High Carb Hannah: th-cam.com/users/Rawkaholics
Thanks! added!
Tiny Home Tours
I put the corrected link to High Carb Hannah's channel:
th-cam.com/users/Rawkaholics
Thank you!
Its great you two are happy. You couldnt pay me to live out there. I love green trees and hate 120 degree heat and desert.
If this annual temperature chart is accurate the summer heat in Tucson is much lower than I anticipated:www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=zncVW5iWFILatQXXuqyICQ&q=annual+temperatures+tucson+az&oq=ANNUAL+TEMPERATURES+OF+TUS&gs_l=psy-ab.1.1.0i22i30k1j0i22i10i30k1j0i22i30k1l4j0i22i10i30k1j0i22i30k1l3.4352.14859.0.19484.31.28.2.0.0.0.236.3804.0j22j3.25.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..4.26.3684.0..0j0i131k1j0i10k1j33i22i29i30k1.0.wAYMaMOta5I
but its a dry heat ; ) lol
That's not bad, I thought it would be hotter.
You should check out VeganAthlete's channel. He turned his yard around his house in Phoenix Arizona into an Oasis garden of paradise with all kinds of fruit trees and vegetables and other edible plants. He even had a koi pond. It was amazing... but he recently sold it. He still has all the videos about it on his channel though. He said all the shade made it much cooler and he used a lot of special perma-culture techniques to conserve water.
@@OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY lol, so is an oven but I'm not living in it either. ;-)
Damn that is impressive work!
One thing, I would have put the rain Harvesting roof a higher off the ground for TWO reasons. One to keep the Dirt off and out of your containment tanks and two, to keep Rattlers out of your area. They LOVE things like this and when the sun goes down, they are out hunting..as in YOUR YARD. Also, it would have made a great place to park your vehicles and also for more Storage or over an outside Shed to help keep it a little cooler. Just saying.
Very informative. Love that you get your own water and recycle it..
yep, closed looped systems rock
Cadillac desert is a great book
Home Sweet Home, this is Awesome
Tiny house, sustainable living, handy, and most importantly, vegan? Y'all are GOALS.
This is true blue off grid living.. You're not only reducing your carbon footprint, but also 'infusing' more life in a desert landscape! This is what the focus should be for anybody aspiring to live off grid.. Go transform a unusable space into a usable one.. Rather than moving in green pastures and clearing off things to claim off grid living.. All the best y'all!
You are amazing !!!!! I wish I was that smart.
You guys shoulf build an outside shower that would be dope!
Great video. Thank you !!
that huge solar pannel set up would also serve as a nice rain water catch...right ?
Sure was some pretty desert.
I'd rig a gutter on those solar panels to capture water.
Beautiful
Great job! Awesome sunsets down there
NoFap baby! Congrats on your channel. Loved the video.
they were tiny house turists, they already built a huge home and an even bigger shop
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Well done.
It's like playing fallout 4 in real life
Awesome!
Wow! Great video and great job! Thank you for sharing this! We all need to figure out how to survive this economy. May I ask about the 40 acres and how did you go about finding this land. Can you recommend some tips on how to find and buy land and any things to watch out fpr etc. Thanks so much!
You should put a fence around the house
Amazing
Cherry and apple in the desert? Wow, I thought they were cooler temp trees? We do a lot of citrus here, I think almonds do pretty well. That’s cool, I hope it works.
This is such an amazing homestead. #goals
Awesome way of living!
I know this is an old video but my question for you is how often do you encounter deadly snakes. I love the concept of living in Arizona but dealing with snakes absolutely freaks me out.
I wonder where he's from😉
That was stellar work, loved it!!
Sounds Canadian.
Nice Hews ... where the hell are you from? lol. Great job on the place. You had to throw a good bit of money at it. A cost breakdown would be cool to understand.
Ahh, Planet Vegan refugee.
Living in Pima County with 100+ degree summers, air conditioning's a must, but I don't see it in this house. Did they have air conditioning? Also, what's their property tax? And the urine to garden's a clever re-use, but are there any scent issues having that run-off to the garden in front of the house?
So that ground "roof" you built catches rainwater? Would like more info or a video on that to see exactly how it functions. Genius idea!!!
Jay Schwartz He has a video on his channel🙂
That's what I'm talking about
This is a cool concept. But if everyone did this, there wouldn't be enough space for everyone. It's a lot of space for two people.
Looking good, I don't think even you realize how important this style of living is going to be very soon. The 'catchment surface however puzzles me; For double the cost, it could have been a real roof, one you could walk under and put to use, plus you get the additional water pressure.
Still, you've incorporated most of the common sense elements missing from conventional res. architecture. Good job.
I've been Sketchuping numerous energy efficient models for deserts, and have pretty much decided a basement is necessary.
why is the basement necessary
Very nice good job
The monsoon is a lot longer than 2 weeks.
how are the Trees? do you make settlements for others to buy?
I've been looking at 40-70 acres in northern Arizona... How far are you from a major metropolitan area? I'm in Cincinnati now and some of these properties that would even allow this are in highly remote areas. How do you upload videos? Do you commute to a large city for work? All I see if towns with 4 or 5 buildings haha
Apple, peach and cherry tree in the AZ desert? Please let us know if they are alive in six months.
I live in Tucson and would love to visit your homestead sometime! Where are you?
Thank you brother - subbed you.
You may need a second cherry tree to cross pollinate. In addition I didn’t get cherries until the 7th year.
yea those trees looked very young. I would suspect 3 years minimum for them to fruit.
I'm wondering if the $35k figure is just for the tiny house or for the whole shebang?
I think he said the solar setup was about $15,000 the rain roof was about $3000, the water tanks were about $11,000.. he talks about all the costs in several videos on his channel. I'm not 100 percent sure but I think he paid about $35,000 for that tractor and all the attachments... They're really eco-conscious and all about sustainability but they don't do anything on the cheap. They are living within their means paying cash for everything as they go so I can't fault them on that.
I think he said $35K for materials for the tiny house alone.
Arizona Desert.... Doesn't it get ridiculously HOT out there? The video didn't mention any cooling system.
You need a device that converts moisture into water
Do you have a foolproof way of finding vacant desert land? I keep striking out.
Are you in a flood zone?
With the recent flooding is your place still there?
What about flash floods during monsoons weather?
Did you say the piss water is used to water the plants?
You need at least 2 of each tree for best results.
How well are you all doing 3yrs later?
mulberry needs 2 trees to fruit?
So the fruit from the trees will have urine in them?
Curious about how the composting toilet is set up. Any how to links you can provide?
Got room for more builds my friend
So are you still a Canadian citizen? Don’t you have to return every 6 months to Canada?
Why put a giant roof system on the ground to catch water when you could have put it over (maybe 3 ft above) the house? Let it collect rain water AND provide huge amount of shade from the desert sun which would lower your a/c usage? Just curious
maddog1918 Maybe the cost to raise a 2800 square foot structure high enough came into their thinking?
the cost to put that up on posts would be less than $700 dollars. Wooden telephone poles are like $60 each and you'd cut them in half so you wouldn't need to buy as many! They live on 40 acres, those water tanks are $1800-$3000 each, the solar system is top of the line. They clearly weren't hurting for $700.
I can't see how it is currently built but it looks like all its lacking is the "legs" to get it up off the ground and into the air which couldn't have cost that much compared to the rest of it. I was just curious on the thought process. Being in the desert I would assume the house gets hot as hell during the day without the heavy usage of the a/c any shade would help
The a/c runs on solar so there is no cost for running it all the time. He built it low because of the high winds they get in that area.
Putting it on the ground because of high winds I can see that being a possible reason. Although the a/c is on solar it still will cost you in shorter lifespan of the a/c and battery dranage/life because its always on. Atleast that would be my thought process if had been me building it. I still havent heard from him to get his reasoning behind it.
The background music it really sucks but the video is inspirational, thanks
What part of Tuscon is this legal? Also what other areas is legal?
I can't find much info out there. Please help lol. Thanks.
They mentioned that they are on 40 acres, so they aren't IN Tucson. Maybe search Zillow for large acreage lots in the areas nearby.
land.. tell me how to get some of that land at a good price... love the video
Live in a cheap state out in the middle of nowhere. They got a really good price for their land
Lol weather is amazing here .. And thn camera goes far and its just dessert 😂
Dig you will hit water.