About Us

Terraform Together’s mission is to provide environmental sustainability education to our community and to a network of travelers. We believe major environmental change starts at a local level, individual by individual. We work to inspire, teach, and groom the next generation of environmental advocates by teaching ways to live more sustainably and live outside the prescribed unsustainable system.

With the core principles of live simple. Live sustainably. Live within your means. We create an environment to educate and explore healthy ways of living that work with the earth instead of against it.

Through our Work Trade program we work with individuals for a few weeks up to several months and expose people to a lifestyle many have never had an opportunity to experience. We are open to people of all backgrounds joining the program, but pride ourselves in being a safe place for women, the LGBTQ+ community, and minority groups who would normally not have an opportunity to be exposed to construction and building education. Our Work Trade programs are offered at no-charge and are supported by your donations. Program participants work to improve the community space and learn hands-on through a variety of projects in exchange for housing, food, education, amenities, and community.

We have seen SO many people’s lives transformed and confidence built through our program by simply giving them the opportunity to build and learn for themselves.

Our Tiny House Building Residency Program offers people an opportunity to build their own home in an affordable way. With the dream of homeownership becoming more and more unobtainable, we launched this program to help people who want to put in the hard work of building their own home achieve their goal. We offer housing, a build site, tools, and instruction to aspiring DIYers to complete their dream tiny home and move onto a more financially stable life.

Finally, to reach a larger audience, we produce weekly videos posted on our Youtube Chanel. These videos give an honest look into the homesteading life, helpful classes and educational videos, and just general inspiration to help people live more sustainably! As of May 2023, we have reached over ¼ million views and inspired so many people. We want to advocate everywhere! So if a cob oven how-to video inspires you to live a little more simply, or if our rainwater harvesting story inspires you to put up a rain barrel, we are reminded that change is made individual by individual and no action is too small.

Board Of Directors

Richard Ward
Chairman and Community Director
Richard founded and runs the Terraform Together community. After starting his Tiny House design company, Terraform Tiny Homes, and building his first tiny home in 2015, Richard became a huge advocate for the tiny house movement and the sustainable living movement. After leaving his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, Richard spent 4 years traveling around the country, exhibiting his home and connecting with other like-minded travelers in search of “Home.”

Richard found Home outside the small town of Bisbee, Arizona after 4 long years of travel. Richard connects deeply with the desert and the balance of beauty and adversity it brings. Richard has donated the use of his land to the organization and acts as our primary educator and community director.

He is passionate about environmental sustainability and truly believes his role on this earth is to inspire others to become advocates for change.

Amy is a tiny house dweller and a lifelong traveler. Currently residing off grid in the Arizona desert, Amy has a fierce desire to continue to deepen her connection with our planet. She understands the value of community and intertwines her desire to honor the environment with community involvement.

Amy founded Starfish Yoga in 2011, a small company focused on providing yoga as a coping skill for underserved populations.

As a previous board member of Timber Wolf Preservation Society and Huntington’s Disease Society of America, Amy is enthusiastic to contribute to the growth of Terraform Together.

A simple life is a good life.

Amy Merkel
Community Advocacy Chair
Amy Merkel
Community Advocacy Chair

Amy is a tiny house dweller and a lifelong traveler. Currently residing off grid in the Arizona desert, Amy has a fierce desire to continue to deepen her connection with our planet. She understands the value of community and intertwines her desire to honor the environment with community involvement.

Amy founded Starfish Yoga in 2011, a small company focused on providing yoga as a coping skill for underserved populations.

As a previous board member of Timber Wolf Preservation Society and Huntington’s Disease Society of America, Amy is enthusiastic to contribute to the growth of Terraform Together.

A simple life is a good life.

Victor Crindal
Financial Chair
From a young age, Victor knew conventional life was not for him. He left southern France in his youth with little more than a backpack to travel the world and expose himself to new ways of thinking all across the globe. He became a tiny houser in 2016 when he converted a short school bus into a home. After getting his Masters of Business Administration in Finance from Wilmington University, Delaware in 2020 and starting his own financial consulting agency Orgallic, Victor epitomizes the FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) movement and ensures the organization adheres to those ideals
Victor Crindal
Financial Chair
From a young age, Victor knew conventional life was not for him. He left southern France in his youth with little more than a backpack to travel the world and expose himself to new ways of thinking all across the globe. He became a tiny houser in 2016 when he converted a short school bus into a home. After getting his Masters of Business Administration in Finance from Wilmington University, Delaware in 2020 and starting his own financial consulting agency Orgallic, Victor epitomizes the FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) movement and ensures the organization adheres to those ideals