we're heading over to a tiny home community called circle pond in ruskin florida so join me
i'm a gardener i love to eat organic food and so i've got 40 organic fruiting trees everything
from mulberry mango pomegranate avocado several different kinds of avocados probably six different
kind of mangoes i have jackfruit sapodillo pomegranate i think i said that already
um let's see what else fig guava i have several olive trees i have a pseudonym cherry tree in the
front and then of course we've got the bee hives i've got a fabulous beekeeper his name is sam
and he's got a heart for bees like you would not believe um during the springtime right now he's
rescued i want to say five or six different hives and brought them home here so now that they've got
a place to continue their hard work of providing us with honey so we have 12 tiny homes and then on
the very end i have two containers the big green container that says the box on it is actually
owned by a gentleman who owns the superstore the the big food superstore down in ellington and so
he's growing micro greens in that one and then the little tan box he's growing mushrooms and
they are the best mushrooms you've ever had lion's mane oyster so it's kind of a benefit
when i bought the property i needed a tiny home as an example and so i bought this one this one
was built by a young lady named stephanie as part of her thesis project for usf architecture
they hosted her on hgtv and a company out in um i think seattle saw her and she's precious and they
hired her to build container restaurants off she went and she couldn't keep the tiny home so i was
fortunate and got it um if you want to come in and take a look your basic needs are me and can you
smell it it smells good it's made out of wood so it breathes so you have that yeah i mean it smells
so good i love this thing there's a queen size bed up top there's the bathroom even has a tub um all
your basic needs are met the television rack i've got the tv somewhere else right now but it can
spin that way so you can see it in the bedroom or down here in the living area got kitchen you
know fridge and microwave and with a two top um induction burner year that's all you really need
karen so this house was built in 2018 and we've been living in it for about a year
a little over a year and we started living in this house at circle pond so we really enjoy being here
and being in a tiny house community this house was built um with the help of tiny house nation
so we had um the designers were professional and uh when we went in for the the uh reveal it
was amazing the what they had done so i'm excited for having you come in and take a look yeah let's
go in yeah so we had the refrigerator um kind of cabineted in because i i like that look and
a fully functional awesome kitchen plenty of room we chose this house because it has the slide outs
so normally a tiny house is 8.6 wide going down the road but this doubles it because of the slide
out so we've got a nice little nook here probably eat um i just had lunch it's just a nice little
space and then we actually have some privacy so um it fills in here working which he is right now
then um we can close the door we can close that door and then also there's another door here
that closes just closes the space off so he has um the privacy phil's closet my closet
and then this is storage up here
barn door to the bathroom
this slides over and this is our combo washer dryer which works great
i wanted something to close it off to make it look more finished so we're planning the house we asked
if we could have a fireplace and we wanted the big screen tv so we ended up getting those things
when phil's not working we have a murphy bed so his office this folds down and that's our bed
this whole thing folds down this folds down that folds down there's a ladder back here
there's two bunk beds after we got married we had some interest in simplifying our lives we actually
sold our big house and that i had and i moved to annapolis with karen into a smaller apartment
and then as a result of a car accident couldn't couldn't travel for a time and was able to work
from home so we realized that if we could work from home and home could be anywhere
from my particular work why not put it in a tiny house we were on tiny house nation
in 2010 well 2019 was when it aired 2018 was when it was filmed and it was a great experience it was
hectic because we knew we had to move and we had 60 days to put all of this together something we
wanted to do we thought we would do it when we retired we realized that a better plan was just
to jump in i do like the sustainable piece of it it forces us to think twice about acquiring things
and we do like the the ability that everything is just where we want it and it forces us to
think a little bit about you know what's really important and now that we've moved to florida
the opportunity to spend more time outside as just sort of an extension of the tiny house is is ideal
we bought a shell and we had that delivered from canada to hagerstown maryland where we
had it built out we had a team that worked on it so there was obviously some developmental
costs and things like that so i think all all in plus probably some of the upgrades
we're probably talking somewhere between 100 to 120. this is 26 feet long they've they've
adopted a standard 28-foot model now which is a little bit larger than this uh because that
allows for some other amenities and i think you can still get that for was it 95 for that one okay
circle pond tiny home community is situated on nearly five acres with lots spaces surrounding
circle pond the area is very quaint and peaceful with a focus on nature and sustainability
the community offers residents options for long-term tiny living 12 lots are available for
monthly or yearly rent there's a real community feel here where the residents become friends
contribute to the community garden and enjoy the friday night fire pit gatherings if you desire
a healthy and sustainable lifestyle this may be the place for you just bring your tiny home
if you're somebody interested in living in circle pond please contact debbie directly at this email
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