Earthship Fife Visitor Centre
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. Since July 2002 more than 200 volunteers have completed the Earthship over weekends and work experience days.
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 a 3 year monitoring programme to secure permanent validation for Earthship building techniques in Scotland.
The Earthship was completed through a series of work experience weekends and workdays which ran until July 2004.
The Earthship was launched and officially opened on 21st August, 2004. Earthship Fife has been granted full planning permission and a 5 year building warrant. Although the building is to be used as a demonstration centre the housing standards were applied to both applications.
The unprecedented building process and legislative procedure taken through the building of Earthship Fife has been documented by SCI and is available in video, DVD and booklet formats - visit our shop.
SUMMER OPENING TIMES
Open every day from Thursday 7th August - Sunday 24th August (except 11th August), then every Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday until the end of September.
The Earthship is open between 10am and 4pm.
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 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 in the evenings as a unique meeting place for groups and organisations.