March 4, 2022 was an exciting day for our Toughest Kids as we held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Sustainability Education Center at Greenville’s new park – The Preserve at Lakewood! When the owners of the privately-owned,120 acre property chose to conserve the land, it became the perfect place to transform into a private…
By deliberately bringing our daughters into nature, my wife and I are connecting them to something greater than the individual elements of the outdoors, something deeper than the average afternoon experience. In nature, we’re giving them answers to the fundamental questions of reality.
(September 28, 2017) – Source: HuffPost – The City of Pittsburgh has over 3,000 acres of public parks, greenways, and open space, constituting 10 percent of the city’s land base, and the majority of its citizens live within a walkable distance (1/4 – 1/2 mile) to a public greenspace. And yet, every summer I visit…
