Apr 29, 2011 at 5:18 pm in events, natural play spaces, news by Rusty · Tags: building, kids, landscape, living, local, natural, nature, playscape, spring, structure, volunteer, willow
This past weekend I had the pleasure of building another great living willow hut…this time in a sweet public park in my own town of Spencer, NY. Local organizer and volunteer extraordinaire, Nicole O’Connell-Avery, is spearheading a natural playscape project for little kids in the park. The first build of the project: a Living Willow Hut of course! Nicole and I have been plotting and planning over the winter and last weekend was the big day. We had arranged to [read more →]
Jan 18, 2011 at 9:05 pm in news by Rusty · Tags: design, playground, playscape, thailand
Winter time here. Grey skies. Ice and snow on the ground. Wood fire keeping things toasty inside. Sledding and skiing as daily fun-time activities. Not bad! Now of course in the southern hemisphere it’s sunny hot summer and I still have a winter’s worth of summery pictures and stories from our New Zealand – Australia trip to share. But in the meantime I wanted to share an interesting playground design that Leon Smith (my playscape brother) and I collaborated on [read more →]
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