It began in the 70's and I can't say exactly how but Steve and I came together and over a few years so did our plans to move out of the city and build our underground solar home and sustainable homestead in the northwoods. It was a quite an adventure! We didn't know that we couldn't do it, so we did.

Between Thanksgiving and Christmas 1978 we built a basic but adequate cabin (which later became our power tool shop) and dove into planning the earth house. It took longer than we had originally thought (of course) but in 1985 we moved in to the spacious 1000 square foot dwelling. Now it's 2026 -- we're still here, we still love it, and yes, we're still working on it.

Use the menu above left to go to photo pages of Construction and Indoor shots of the house as well as related subjects. There is more information on our move, building the cabin, and building the house (and much more) in our book "Homesteading Adventures".