Our subsequent homestead open home is July 27, 2024. Our household might be giving excursions of the house and grounds throughout this time. You are welcome to take a fast look or keep for an extended go to in the course of the open home hours.
For those who’ve needed to see firsthand all the chances and ends I’ve talked about on-line, now’s your likelihood.
If the climate cooperates, you possibly can stroll “the loop” across the acreage and tour the wagon wheel backyard. The east and west orchards, hazelnuts, and different permaculture plantings are additionally accessible.
Current additions:
2017 – mixture coop/backyard shed with hooked up greenhouse, 1.5 acre pond.
2018 – Harvest Proper dome greenhouse (now transformed to rising trellis)
2019 – 27 panel photo voltaic electrical system with lithium ion batteries
2020 – Added second small pond and drainage channels
2021 – Expanded north backyard beds
2022 – Completed bonus room above the storage and added seasonal rooster coop and run
2023-2024 – Workshop in progress
Frequent Sense Homestead Options
Our Objectives for Our Homestead: To construct a house that conserves vitality and assets, is accessible for these with bodily limitations, and acts as a gathering spot for sustainable dwelling training.
We’re additionally working in the direction of offering most of our personal meals or sourcing it domestically.
Photo voltaic
- Photo voltaic Water Heating – Two 4×8 panels with 80 gallon storage tank put in by Lake Michigan Wind & Solar
- Photovoltaic (Photo voltaic Electrical) System – 27 panels, floor mounted, with lithium ion batteries, put in by Endries Photo voltaic & Electrical
- Pure daylighting all through home
- Passive photo voltaic heating (see beneath)
See extra on Passive Photo voltaic Heating
Passive Heating and Cooling
- Insulated Concrete Varieties (ICFs), sand mattress underneath flooring, masonry range, tile/underlayment present thermal mass
- South going through window space is ~12% of flooring space
- 4 foot overhang and deck alongside complete south going through facet of residence
- Home windows positioned for cross air flow and to benefit from Lake Michigan breezes
Insulation
- Home constructed fully of Insulated Concrete Varieties (ICFs)
- Vitality Star Home windows, insulating mobile shades
- Ceiling options R-55 blown in cellulose, all perforations in ICF sealed with spray foam
- Storage insulated with spray foam, fiberglass batting or blown cellulose in each exterior floor
Inexperienced Constructing
- WI Inexperienced Constructed Licensed, Vitality Star Licensed
- Inexperienced Cabinetry designed by Paul Yeager of Cosmic Walker Cabinetry
- Inexperienced Flooring offered by EcoFriendly Flooring of Madison – cork, bamboo, linoleum
- CFL, LED, halogen bulbs, dimmer switches and process lighting cut back lighting hundreds
- Connected greenhouse for rising season extension
- Giant natural backyard and different meals crops, primarily heirloom varieties
- Root cellar and unheated storage room for residence meals preservation
- Kitchen options walk-in pantry, roll out kitchen shelving, built-in recycling bins, ergonomic work surfaces, number of process lighting, softer flooring to scale back fatigue
- Symmetry between higher and decrease ranges decreases want for specialised helps within the concrete, home sized to scale back supplies waste (even increments)
HVAC
- Giant thermal mass and residential structure facilitate pure heating and cooling
- In flooring radiant heating for foremost flooring and basement slab
- TempCast masonry range with bake oven supplies gradual, even warmth
- Ceiling followers in most rooms
- Supplementary cooling offered by way of pressured air
- Panasonic exhaust followers with timers present spot air flow in bogs
- Direct vents for kitchen range and garments dryer, minimal ductwork = higher effectivity
- Fantech Warmth Restoration Ventilator system
Universally Accessible Design
- Low or no thresholds, 36 inch doorways, additional vast hallways and stairways (elevate prepared)
- Lever handles on doorways
- Security lighting all through residence
- Vast areas in bogs for wheelchair/walker entry, ADA tub and bathe
- Some seize bars plus backing in partitions to permit for added handles and seize bars
- Taps have single lever controls, baths have hand showers with scald safety
Water Conservation, Storage and Filtration
Frequent Sense Homestead Open Home
The place: Frequent Sense Homestead, August and Laurie Neverman Residence
E1595 Outdated Settlers Street, Denmark, WI 54208
When: Saturday, July 27, 2024 10 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Who: Open to the general public
Price: Free admission
RSVP: If you’re pondering of attending the homestead open home, please depart a remark beneath or e-mail me at laurie at commonsensehome dot com.
We’re a few 2 hour drive from Milwaukee, three hours from Chicago, six hours from the Twin Cities space, 25 minutes from Inexperienced Bay, 2 hours to Wausau, and 45 minutes to an hour from the Fox Valley, simply to offer you some tough driving occasions.
Need Even Extra Info?
We have now a complete collection of posts on the location discussing constructing our residence and inexperienced constructing choices. You could find them on the “Inexperienced House” web page.
Associated Articles
Our Homestead, Then and Now – picture comparability of our homestead early on and because it has grown and altered
Growing old in Place – A number of the options of our residence which can be designed to assist the home accommodate completely different ranges of mobility and completely different age teams
Different close by points of interest:
Parallel 44 Vineyard, which might be open from 10 am to five pm. Lower than 5 minutes away.
Konop’s Meats – Open 8 am – midday an Saturdays. Full service small city meat store. About 2 miles north of us.
Krohn Dairy Retailer – Open 8am – midday on Saturdays. Positioned only a few miles north on AB. Contemporary cheese curds made on Fridays – the very best curds I’ve ever purchased.
Trying ahead to seeing you quickly. 🙂
