Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home/customer/www/strawbalestudio.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/movedo/includes/framework/inc/class.redux_filesystem.php on line 29
Kensington Kids Cottage ~ Metropark Project – Strawbale Studio

Kensington Kids Cottage ~ Metropark Project

Kensington Kids Cottage ~ Metropark Project

150 150 Strawbale Studio

kensington-metropark-cottage.jpg
Kensington Metropark in Milford, Michigan, is a 4,481 acre park system where visitors can participate in numerous outdoor activities. Many volunteers helped construct a new addition to the park, a 300 sq ft building made only from local, natural materials like wood, mud, straw, rocks.

Dubbed the “Kids’ Cottage”, it will serve to educate visitors about green building techniques and materials. The non-toxic materials included: compressed earth blocks of dirt, limestone, and clay were made on site; reeds from an invasive plant species were put to good use as a thatched roof; dead ash trees, felled due to the emerald ash borer, were milled on-site to make the timber for framing the structure; fieldstone walls and strawbale walls finished with earthen plaster were incorporated as well.

  • View a short  video of the Kensington Kid’s Cottage taken by the Oakland Press, interviewing Carol Fink from the Kensington Metropark Farm Center. An article on the Kid’s Cottage in the Oakland Press May 19, 2008.

Kensington KIDS COTTAGE Flyer ~ Poster

Kensington Kids Cottage teaches “Green Lessons”  Oakland Press Article

Kensington Kids Cottage 2006 update, links and photos.

Information on the Kids Cottage Project ~ the process