A venue to give vets and fostered kids entering society a chance to have a trade, a business of building tiny houses or big, & other great products out of All-American parts, labor, and creativity.
FEB 08, 2025
Soon, I will crank up some human energy to finish a few projects and get them into service. We are looking for the kids to give some training to, that means up to your 60s in my language of youthing to stay in top shape until your 90s plus. Yes, it can be done, and I can help others figure out how.
On the substack site, there are many articles about how to break free from conventional thinking for the communities of the future as the concept is redeployed with nature, organic living, and a balance of work and family life that allows us to savor the years of parenting and after when we have a chance to chase the passions of our youth. We do not reach our prime until 66-78 if you take the time to celebrate by being better to yourself. Treat yourself and others to the future we all want to see instead of the one that seems to be appearing without anyone asking me.
This is just a tiny sample of reusing old roofing shingles that will last another hundred years, yes, already more than that old; they were made to last for lifetimes, not just one.
As you see here, a simple house with proper ventilation allows for living without air conditioning even when it’s 107 daily. My Dewalt fan with the rechargeable 20-volt battery is all I need to have it at 75 in my bed at night. Good for me. No AC electricity for my master suite is, where I stay to sleep, rest, and enjoy with a guest, but not for the laundry and all other things. This is my master suite out in the woods, where I sleep and rest blissfully healthy in my retreat. Grounding and loving my stained glass escape, I cherish this more than the big houses I have owned. I have the windows and the doors from the houses once deployed around the USA to build and be a home without the builders’ guild. These were assembled from the parts in a kit shipped on the railroad to the homesteads and the towns. See the area where the railroad went, and know they came from catalogs and were paid for before they were sent. While we may not have sent the parts all cut, we can send the parts to recreate this house and others, as you will find out, numbered in the hundred thousand homes, with many still about. Why not use the best of what was once treasured since it still has terrific value and is great to use to build? Let me know what kind of home you wish to develop and use the old windows and doors to make the house unique. It is true. It lasts a lifetime if you care for the parts you can use.
Here are the initial drafts for the new site that will be growing. We are sharing the plan to house and offer to train many who want to follow this path of sustainable, healthy building with the treasures of the past.
If you have a desire to live part-time in Texas, probably throughout winter since it is 80 degrees today while it snows up north in most of the USA. I prefer sunshine over snow… but a dusting like we got this year is tolerable.
With training, Co-ops can grow to show how to build locally with the many resources that can be brought in or salvaged locally. Why not use as much as you can get for as free as possible to cut the cost of housing in your town or small city?
Contact [email protected] for more information about being a prominent player in setting this next level up so that many more can profit and find housing through salvage mining and building with the best parts America ever made. Pride in craftsmanship will rise again as the pendulum favors quality over quantity.
Please consider a paid subscription and helping to fund this new endeavor focused on transferring knowledge, power, and potential to a new generation of Salvage Builder Artists. Finally, a chance to be an Artisan instead of just a worker-bee making widgets. Quality and creating houses you can be proud of and pass along from generation to generation, even moving them quickly later on, is a mindset for those who might want to look at the world differently. One neighborhood for musicians, another for the elders. Each intentional community finds unity through various forms of communication to make a village work.