Tag: travels
Playing in the mud to make the world better
It’s always inspiring to see the Friends of Trees community expand to other parts of the globe.
Kate Farrington was Friends of Trees’ Neighborhood Trees outreach coordinator until a year ago, when she and her sister took off on a road trip across the country. They traveled from the Sawtooth Mountains and Grand Teton National Park to Shenandoah National Park—and south through the Carolinas to Austin, Texas, where Kate stayed a while to do community gardening and help with the mayor’s re-election campaign.
Now in Asheville, North Carolina, Kate has almost completed her four-month apprenticeship with the international nonprofit Kleiwerks International (pronounced Clay-works”) as a part of WASI, a new Kleiwerks program involving “innovative design specialists collaborating with communities to create ecological and social resilience.”