Thanks for visiting! I'm Claudia - mom to two young children and wife to a very handy husband. My background is in geology and outdoor education. Since having my kiddos I came to realize that the hands-off, look-but-don't-touch, approach on the signage at most parks is not the way to teach our children to love and care for, and quite possibly SAVE our earth. They need to be able to PLAY, dig, climb, poke, balance, touch, smell and taste the earth. Only then will they gain the desire to become her caretakers. This blog will document our journey from a big backyard with loads of potential to our very own playscaped wonderland so they can do just that. If you've never heard of playscaping, let me tell you a bit about our inspiration: our goal is to maintain a very naturalistic yard, full of native plants and habitats for wildlife, while giving our children a playful area to be immersed in all the wonders of nature. With our flooding creek, clay soils, glacial till hill, and still-forming plan we are sure to run into some problems along the way. Join us on our journey! So without further ado, here are the "before" pictures.
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this is the official "before" picture, shortly
after we moved in almost 3 years ago |
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| right behind the house in its current state |
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| looking up the hill from the creek |
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| the drainage creek |
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