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Leave a comment Posted on September 15, 2017September 15, 2017 Living the sustainable tiny life, sustainable housing, sustainable lifestyle design, sustainable tiny homes, tiny house tours

Silver Bullet Tiny House goes to 3rd Annual Massachusetts Tiny House Festival

September 23rd – 24th, 2017: 3rd Annual Massachusetts Tiny House Festival

Five years ago I was at one of Derek Diedricksen‘s first tiny house workshops. And four years ago Miranda was at one of my first workshops. I introduced them to each other and so it is only fitting that I complete the circle and retire from the tiny house festival circuit at their co-partnered event, the 3rd Massachusetts tiny house festival.

Please come out on the weekend of September 23rd and 24th to Trackside Plaza in Stoughton, MA.and see a dozen or more tiny houses on wheels!

Vera and the Silver Bullet Tiny House will be at the festival where she will speak about her sustainable tiny life. Bring your sense of humor and tiny house questions.

For more info and tickets: http://mirandashearth.com/tinyhouse/

Leave a comment Posted on August 30, 2017September 5, 2017 Biomimicry, community resilience, Living the sustainable tiny life, reclaimed building materials, reclamation art, renewable energy, sustainable housing, sustainable lifestyle design, Sustainable Systems, sustainable tiny homes, tiny house community, tiny house enthusiasts, tiny house talk, tiny house tours, tiny house workshop, tiny housers

Tiny House Fest Vermont

I bringing the Silver Bullet Tiny House to Vermont this weekend! Join me and others who are bringing their homes for you to view!

More details about the event schedule : https://tinyhousefestvermont.com/tiny-house-fest-2017/

Join us in Brattleboro, Vermont for four days of fun, September 1-4 this weekend!

Friday, Day 1 : See Vera’s exquisite reclamation gowns at Gallery Walk on Flat Street

Day 3 : “Living the Sustainable Tiny Life”, Vera’s Talk at 1PM on 1 of 2 Flat Street stages

Day 3 and Day 4: Tour her Silver Bullet Tiny House at the Tiny House Village

For tickets : https://tinyhousefestvermont.com/experience

For more info on speakers: https://tinyhousefestvermont.com/presenters

Leave a comment Posted on March 1, 2016May 8, 2016 Living the sustainable tiny life, sustainable housing, sustainable lifestyle design, tiny house tours, tiny house workshop

June Tiny House Tours/Workshops at the Klay Winery

Come to the beautiful Laurel mountains, 65 miles SE of Pittsburgh, PA. and learn all about tiny houses on wheels. Take a 30 minute tour of the charming Silver Bullet Tiny House, by designer, builder, artist and author, Vera Struck for $15. You will discover repurposed and reclaimed resources, renewable energy systems, a zero waste, off-grid tiny house on wheels made from sustainable non-toxic materials. For the serious tiny house enthusiasts we recommend the 3 hour workshop $75., where you will learn tiny house building systems, tiny house decisions about trailers, materials, building design, parking, zoning, etc.

30 minute tours for the tiny house curious, $15., $20 at the door. Pre-purchase your tickets here for whichever day you wish to come. Pre-ticket holders get preference over at the door buyers.

The 30 minute tours are limited to 12 attendees per session

June 11th: 30 minute tour (on the hour 1PM, 2PM, 3PM, 4PM)

June 12th: 30 minute tour (on the hour 10AM, 11AM, 1PM, 2PM)

June 18th: 30 minute tour (on the hour 1PM, 2PM, 3PM, 4PM)

June 19th: 30 minute tour (on the hour 10AM, 11AM, 1PM, 2PM)

The 3 hour tiny house workshop gets you:

• entrance to the enchanting grounds of the Christian W. Klay Winery

• 3 hour tour and workshop in and around the Silver Bullet Tiny House. Learn about the tiny house movement and Vera’s personal tiny house journey. Ms. Struck will share her building envelope design based on bio-mimicry. She will discuss many of the tiny house decisions that face those enthusiast’s curious about the movement. Trailer modification, design process, framing, sheathing, downsizing transitions, insulation and energy systems will be covered. Includes light refreshments, building samples and 30 minute Q&A session. Bring your sense of humor!!

• Includes light refreshments, and building resource samples (as long as they last, so register early)

• a copy of her e-book, “Living the Sustainable Tiny Life” will be included in the tour/workshop

• after each workshop the Christian W. Klay Winery will provide a wine tasting

June 11th: 9-12 AM Limited to 12 attendees

June 18th: 9-12 AM Limited to 12 attendees

If you are planning an entire weekend of enjoyment in the Laurel Highlands, we suggest:

• enjoying one of the many local white water rafting challenges

• visiting one of the three Frank Lloyd Wright homes (including Falling Water, 10 minutes away)

• visit the Ridge Runner Distillery across the street

• take in a swim, golf, a spa treatment, or a holistic healing session at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort

Comments about her book:

Once I started reading Living the Sustainable Tiny Life, I couldn’t put it down. In addition to Vera’s inspiring personal journey, she gives the reader a detailed look at how and why she designed each element of her house the way that she did. I was surprised to learn that she managed to get her floor to have an R value of 33 with an ingenious design and construction method. I definitely recommend this book for anyone considering but isn’t sure if they can gain the skills required to do it themselves. Living the Sustainable Tiny Life will give you the kick you need to get moving!” – Ethan Waldman, Tiny House Designer/Builder/Dweller/Author of Tiny House Decisions, Tiny House Parking

Other comments about her e-book by tiny house movement leaders can be seen here.

Leave a comment Posted on January 29, 2016January 29, 2016 Events, sustainable lifestyle design, tiny house jamboree, tiny house workshop

2016 Events Schedule

As several of my followers have been asking about workshops and tours, I wanted to post some of the events for 2016 even though I am not posting the Summer Tour Schedule yet.

I hope to have a Spring workshop in April and will post it here first! So, please come and see me at any of these events and we can talk “tiny”!

February 5-7, 2016: Speaker at Derek Diedricksen’s Small Build at the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Mass.

March 4-6, 2016: Keynote Speaker at the Georgia Tiny House Festival

“Why Tiny? Why Now?” Hear from International Tiny House Jamboree speaker, Vera Struck, about the growing social tiny house movement that went viral. Learn how Vera’s affordable zero-waste tiny house, the Silver Bullet, is a resilient solution to the lack of affordable non-toxic housing, provides relief from the American debt culture, reduces one’s carbon footprint and provides a simpler, free and more substantive life in a world of diminishing resources.

March 16, 2016: Keynote Speaker at the Greater Newburyport Village at the Newburyport 5 Cent Savings Bank Auditorium, 6:30PM.

April, 2016: BU Sustainability Festival (both campuses)

May 18-19, 2016: Silver Bullet Tiny House Summer Tour Launch and Tour at EBSCO Host Corporate, Ipswich, MA.

June-September, 2016: Look for the cross-country tour schedule posting in Spring, 2016

August 5-7, 2016: Workshop Facilitator/Speaker at the 2nd International Tiny House Jamboree

October 8, 2016: Blue Ocean Music Hall, Salisbury, Mass. 7 PM Rubbish to Runway Fashion Show to benefit Long Way Home.

Our Founder, Vera Struck, will create two new eco-couture fashions for another sustainable education non-profit, Long Way Home, that will be featured at the renowned Rubbish to Runway Refashion Show!

Leave a comment Posted on September 30, 2015October 22, 2015 tiny house journey, tiny house tours, tiny house workshop

Fall Events Update

Nov. 4, 2015 Keynote Speaker for “Poverty Matters” Study Group, Newburyport, MA.

Vera will be speaking about her personal Silver Bullet challenge and the journey to meet the goal she set out for herself in 2010. She will connect the dots for the study group by examining how the tiny house movement is not only the sustainability imperative at work but also a solution to global warming and the affordable housing crisis.

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November 14th, 2015, 12 – 4 PM – Newbury, MA. $75.

The Silver Bullet Tiny House Journey – Tour – Workshop

*** Sign up now, before it sells out!!!

Meet a local tiny house designer/builder and learn more about her tiny house journey and the tiny house movement. Tour the Silver Bullet Tiny House on wheels and discover all its reclaimed, recycled, non-toxic, sustainable and net-zero waste building materials and systems. How to transition into a sustainable lifestyle will be discussed with practical tips on how to reduce your carbon footprint quickly.

Limited to 12 attendees.

Comments from former attendees:

“If your longing to live the tiny life I highly recommend attending Vera’s workshop as a first step. Not only will you get to see, touch, and feel an actual tiny house but Vera will share with you her story, her experiences, and knowledge gained by extensive research and trial and error. I left her workshop with a bigger appreciation for the Tiny house way of life and for the movement as a whole. I now have a better understanding of the social, economic, environmental, and cultural effects this intentional way of living supports and impacts.

So inspired to start my THOW journey real soon! ” Sophie T.

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“I also really enjoyed all the sustainability information that you shared with us. We are definitely starting to see a trend in people who we talk to: those who are environmentally conscious, and those who are financially conscious. I love that your nonprofit strives to show people that they can have both.” Megan M.

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“I definitely learned a lot about how tiny houses are constructed, and providing us with some of the building materials you used was incredibly useful. The game we played at the end of the tour also really helped put everything into perspective – it was definitely a great learning process when we wrote down the top 5 things we should consider before building a tiny house.” Jay W.

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“I greatly appreciate your willingness to open up your home and heart to us and share with us your values as well as your challenges.” Mika IW.

Trailer modification, design process, framing, sheathing, downsizing transitions, insulation and energy systems will be covered. Includes light refreshments, building samples and 30 minute Q&A session. Bring your sense of humor!!

To Register click PayPal button below and we will email you instructions and directions.

Deek’s video of the Silver Bullet Tiny House he made last month here.

***All proceeds go to support sustainability education at www.terrabluteams.org.

There are two fully paid scholarships to this workshop available to those in need. To apply, please email taospirit@mac.com with a paragraph about your need and reason for attending. Include contact information & phone. Applications processed within 24 hours.

Leave a comment Posted on January 12, 2015January 12, 2015 tiny house tours

Tiny Homes of New England Meet-up Group Tour

A group of Tiny Homes of New England Meet-up Members came from 4 states and braved the severe cold to come up and visit the “toasty” Silver Bullet Tiny House this weekend.

They had some great stories of their own and were given the opportunity to learn loads about tiny house planning, living, and designing!

I’m grateful to meet such amazing tiny house members and learn how determined their tiny house passions carry them forward.

1 Comment Posted on November 23, 2014December 1, 2014 Community, tiny house talk, tiny house tours

Silver Bullet hosts November Meet-up for Greater Boston Tiny House Enthusiasts

Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting a dozen tiny house enthusiasts from Greater Boston (great group to hook up with) as they toured the tiny house/classroom and played 3 of the “Silver Bullet Games”. And oh yes, we had some winners!

Such a lovely engaging group asked some really great questions over a myriad of refreshments. Fun was had by all.

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