Sunken greenhouse wraps home feeds suburban antifragile co op

When Richard Weaver inherited 3 acres in the center of a golforiented community developed by his father in Bozeman, Montana, he bucked family tradition and tore out the grass to create a selfsufficient urban farm and underground greenhouse home. He turned his fathers RV garage into an offgrid home relying on photovoltaics, rainwater and composting toilet. Attached to the home, he built a halfburied (6feetunder) greenhouse (walipini) to use the earths heat to grow figs and fruits during the long Montana winters. On the land surrounding the home, garden members (open to all) farm using permaculture techniques like planting in guilds layers of plants that support each other to cut down on labor requirements. Its a communal, not community, garden so instead of individual plots, garden members share the work and the crop (making it easy to take vacations or time off).