The Freeville Earthship

We worked really hard this week in the HOT weather!  We finished pounding and leveling the entire 4th course.  Then we decided to put up th...

It's pretty fun to plan out and imagine the interior of our finished earthship, but I don't want to forget how cool it looks with...

Our current pile of cans A can wall in someone else's earthship We have been saving cans for months and months now, and hav...

This past weekend, Chad and I had several students from our respective schools stop over to learn about the earthship and to pound a tire o...

     Today was a big day in that we accomplished putting up the entire 2nd tier of the thermal wrap, backfilled it, leveled it off, and move...

Today the truck from New Mexico arrived... it was a huge semi more than half full of building materials and components to go into the ...

We are now officially 1/3 of the way through our 9 courses of tires! Pretty soon, we'll be placing our four 1,700 gallon cisterns b...

Groton High School students Paige and Reid worked for a long time on Sunday to help us out with the build.  They pounded tires, .....

Thanks to all of those who came out during Memorial Day Weekend to check out the earthship and to help pound tires! Dave on the left, Cor...

The glass for the interior and exterior 90-foot front walls of our Earthship has arrived!

Thanks so much to our recent visitors!  A tire you pound is one we won't have to! Luke, our math TA at Caroline School, and Lexi M...

Chad and I started the thermal wrap these past two weekends.  This 4-inch barrier stands 4 feet back from the tire wall and insulates this ...