Modern architecture has come a long way
and it continues to surprise us with some innovative ideas. But what if I was to tell you that
there's an incredible home that will blow your mind, but it closer represents and design
the first homes in human history. That's right. I'm talking
about a modern day cave house In this video. We're going to step inside grant
Johnson's jaw-dropping bedrock homestead, which he's been working
on for the last 20 years. When I was 17, I got kicked out
of high school and moved to Moab. There was just this wide open
mining town. Things were so relaxed. It was a real culture shock for me, moving to Moab with it had like
four or 5,000 people in it. I'd hike for a quarter, go to
school for a quarter or two. And then a quarter of mining work my way through college, seven
different mines. While I was doing that, then I got involved in
stabilizing, Indian ruins, and I got more and more
into the wilderness. And
then I didn't see any news. Didn't read anything. I
completely got away from it One theme I've always heard. It's
a lot of people don't know what they want, you know, but man, I always
knew, even if it was ridiculous. My original plan was to find a place
in the wilderness in the canyons and irrigate, you know, and grow
my food out in the wilderness. And that turned into this. I just never thought I could buy all
the equipment and dynamite and you know, it takes a load or a compressor
jackhammer, all that stuff that I didn't, I thought no way could I afford that. So I never really thought
about building the rock house. I started blasting in 95, blasted
a little tunnel here first From the first blast I
was committed, you know, and then it was like eight winters
probably of blasting. You know? So I was out in the wilderness, spring and fall and half of the summer
and then winter and we'd be here and it'd be like, I finally
get to be home probably 2003 or so. I was done blasting. And then it sat a long time, you know, trying to come up with the
money and decide what to do. I didn't know what I wanted. You
know, how I wanted to finish it. I was going to weld steel together
and buy glass pieces to put in it, builder friend of mine. He said,
well, what do you want? And I said, I want it to be a cave with no
blocking it. We designed it from there. There's steel in two of the openings
with the rest of them are all just pure glass. Just cut a slot, slid the glass in. Anasazi's left here in 1250. And I would say if they had
dynamite, they'd still be here. I planted the orchard right
away. And we had a water wheel, big 22 foot in diameter
water wheel that ran the pump Put in about 6,500 feet of pipeline
from the pond that ran the water wheel because I always knew. If we could afford
to do it, we'd have gravity flow. Cause we're a mile below the pond.
So we have gravity flow water. So I just plugged into
it and put a turbine. So we produce our electricity off of it. The biggest crop is tomatoes
and peppers and corn potatoes, lots of garlic, but then, you
know, all sorts of little stuff, greens and carrots and beets. I love bacon, sausage and that pork. So to raise pigs, we have to have a cow that's milking
because the pigs eat the milk. Otherwise it's not worth it. You
know, it costs so much to feed them. So we'd feed them milk. You know, you have to get the milk cow bread
and then you have to milk it. And then you have to have a
way to feed the milk cows. And so that's what all these fields
are for is feeding the animals, the horses and the cows, All the food we raise here, tastes
incredible. The beef, the pork, the Turkey, all the sauces.
We make tons of salsa, pickled peppers and frozen roasted corn. We roast our peppers and freeze them
since we've been raising our own meat for 15 years or so, I haven't bought
meat and it's just tastes better. I feel healthier. I eat more meat than
ever. A lot of people like in Boulder, they're like, Oh, you know, we got to
grow our own food to survive. You know, and that's never been my
approach. It's it is there, you know? Yeah. You want to be able to take
care of yourself. But for me, it's lifestyle health. You know,
I can't imagine not growing food. The house is too big for
just me. I meet great people. People think that it's only
scenic in the national parks. So they come here because it's a stepping
stone between Bryce and Capitol reef. If they have their eyes open, they realize that this is all
the same country in between. And it's all just as
beautiful and incredible. If you just stay one night
here, you miss all that. People get inspired by it. I
didn't expect that so much. And it really is the case. People really feel a lot of inspiration
here from all different angles positive living in a negative space. I have noticed that this
home is not so tiny, like a lot of the homes on my channel, but I was so inspired by this incredible
home that I've decided to make a new playlist called alternative homes where
I can feature unique homes like this one. I hope you enjoyed it. And
you'll subscribe to see more.
