Earthship Fife Visitor Centre
The Earthship Fife Visitor Centre is Scotland’s first Earthship, and indeed the first in the UK! The construction programme started in July 2002 during an intensive 8-day building programme with American Earthship builders, including Earthship pioneer Michael Reynolds, and 11 trainees from across Scotland and England. From July 2002 - 2004 more than 200 volunteers completed the Earthship during weekends and work experience days.
The Earthship was launched and officially opened on 21st August,
2004. The Earthship has been granted full planning permission and now
has a permament building warrant, giving validation to Earthship
building techniques in Scotland. Although the building is used as a
demonstration centre housing standards were applied when going through
the planning and building warrant processes..
This unprecedented building process and legislative procedure has been
documented by SCI and is available in video, DVD and booklet formats
- - visit our shop. What is an Earthship?
The Earthship Fife Visitor Centre overlooks Kinghorn Loch, (at a site shared with Craigencalt Ecology Centre), where it serves as an educational and research building. SCI is running an on-going monitoring programme to assess an Earthship's performance in Scotland's climate.
OPENING TIMES
The Earthship is currently being used for our Climate Challenge Projects, and we regret we cannot accommodate drop-in visitors at present. If you want to organise a tour the minimum cost will be £20 for up to 4 people. For parties of 5 and over, an additional cost of £5 per person or £3 concessions will be charged.
Please email donna@sci-scotland.org.uk. Note tour booking are only dealt with Tues-Thur.
If we are able to resume opening hours for the drop-in visitors we will paste the information on our website.
Thank you for your understanding!
Located at Kinghorn Loch, Fife, it is now run as a fully autonomous, self-sustaining Visitor Centre. Please see our directions page.
The Earthship is free to visit, but to get the full picture of how everything works (there is a lot to see behind the scenes!) we reccomend taking an hour long tour of the building. Please phone or fill in the form below.
The guided tour takes approximately 1 hour and costs:
- Adult £5
- Educational groups £3 per student - Teachers/Lecturers go Free
- OAP's, children or unemployed - £3
If you cannot make any of these days/times please email or phone and we will do our best to negotiate a time that suits us both.
We would recommend that you book a tour in advance, otherwise do please check this page before your visit for any update on the opening dates/times.
The Earthship is also available as a unique meeting place for groups and organisations.