Blue Ridge Yurt's is a woman-owned company in Floyd, Virginia, started by my mother, Sharon. We were staying at Treebones, a yurt 'glampground' in Big Sur, California, and fell in love with yurts together. My mom said, "I think I could build one of these," and the company was born! She does all the woodworking, using sustainable practices, with locally-sourced wood, and her best friend Kathy does the fabric end of things. I was one of her early guinea pigs, and my 30' yurt with extra-tall walls is an architectural wonder! It has essentially 3-stories, with a large main space including kitchen, full bath, TV area, office space and bedroom, a loft with a futon,  a built-in walk out basement bedroom, an then an additional super-private satellite yurt bedroom! The yurts sit on a beautiful private acreage off an end-state maintenance road, with biking and hiking trails just a 20 minute drive from the touristy town of Floyd, Virginia.