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the garden most people know me as the garden guy on television with our show Garden home is on PBS for 20 years but
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it was Garden home for a reason the idea of blurring the lines between inside and out bringing the garden inside and also
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spending time more time and outside in the garden itself
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Chapter 2: The Garden Guy
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and the opportunity to purchase extreme panel came along and it really aligned with my values the values of the
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previous owners the family my values with sustainable practices and methodologies and so it just it's always
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felt like a real fit I think we've been so short-sighted in the Housing Industry across the board
Chapter 3: Energy Efficiency
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but particularly in the workforce housing sector and the affordable housing sector and I think that being
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able to offer a product that is really well built it has Energy Efficiency in
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its DNA which is what we have here so if a family is not having to pay really high energy bills maybe their energy
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bills are really really low it's money they save and then if the value of that house goes up because it's been built
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with Energy Efficiency in mind that appraisal is going to give that
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family a greater net worth and that's really exciting to me so we're kind of compounding their their net worth their
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their generational wealth two houses ready in two houses in four
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days I think so that's two days per house tomorrow we'll be able to walk people through this house while the one
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next door is being put up you know walls roof a whole bit and that'll be great
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for them to walk through experience the feeling of the house but also look through those windows and see it going up so they begin to understand the
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technology so I'm really excited yeah I'm doing great he told you it was wild and crazy what do you think I love it I love it I'm
Chapter 4: Panel System
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glad you're here thanks for coming down yeah so we have our crew from Cottonwood Minnesota extreme panel Technologies
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down here showing contractors here and volunteers how the panel system works
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and they are just I mean it's they're absorbing it very quickly so that's that's heartening to see if you were
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looking at a a traditional stick frame construction project there'd be a lot of bracing material to hold the walls up
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but with this the walls themselves hold the outside so there's no need to buy that Lumber that then ends up in the
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landfill or or doesn't get utilized in some way really interested in the response from
Chapter 5: Outro
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our visitors who've got quite a guest list of folks coming tomorrow so that'll be really interesting to get their
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initial reaction to what we're doing here and thanks for having me
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