Jade’s Thrival Cabin Project

Hi All,

I just wanted to send an update on the project to create the Thrival Cabin prototype for Jade. Here we are yesterday, driving around doing errands. You can’t tell from this photo because she’s such a trooper, but she’s in hell right now with no safe place to sleep.

For those of you who have lived this particular type of hell, please send blessings. (Jade has severe EI, or Environmental Illness.) We are working as fast as we can to start the building process. This is where we are with it.

The building site pad and the driveway has been dug!

The metal roof has been ordered and will be shipped shortly. We will erect the metal roof first and then build an adobe underneath it, with shade and shelter from rain.

Underneath this 17′ x 24′ metal roof structure, we will build a 10′ x 12′ adobe structure with a 12 ft ceiling. (Note that we have raised $1320 so far, plus the $7500 that came from the pay-it-forward GoFundMe Trailer I sold to fund this project. So yes the roof structure alone cost more than we have raised so far.)

There will be a loft inside so the sleeping area can be kept cleaner than the living area down below. Then there will be living space outside, under cover. Eventually it will be screened in, but perhaps not until next summer.

I have found the crew who is going to do the site work and concrete column pads and metal building assembly, so that’s all on track. After the roof is assembled, we will schedule volunteer building days in October!

Right now, there is nothing special you need to do to be notified. You will get another email like this one letting you know the volunteer build days we have scheduled. And don’t worry, you don’t need to have experience. You don’t even need to actually build! you can show up and help serve the volunteers food and drinks, you can show up just to see what we’re up to and see how it’s going.

We just wanted to let you know the timing of this. We ARE planning a fundraising event, but I don’t have enough details to share yet. But if you would like to contribute to this project….

Here is the GoFundMe for Jade’s Thrival Cabin

If you would like to help us plan the fundraising event OR you are interested in volunteering as a volunteer coordinator, please do email me here.

(And yes, there is some other pretty special news coming, so stay tuned.)

All for now!

Holly