FROG PARK CLIMATESCAPE

SPONSORED BY FRIENDS OF THE ROCKRIDGE TEMESCAL GREENBELT AND FUNDED BY THE OAKLAND PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION

The Frog Park Climatescape is a landscape celebrating the mediterranean climate zones of the world while offering an innovative response to climate change. The project is one part specific site-prep, planting, and watering techniques to make it possible for the landscape to survive and thrive on its own without irrigation after the first growing season; and it is one part creating social bonds and involving the community from start to finish. To kick off the project, we held a hands-on model building workshop at the site with members of the FROG Committee and their families. Out of that workshop we generated both recurring themes, core values, and creative ideas for the site, which John Kamp of Prairieform then translated into a design.

Phase 2 will now entail designing, fabricating, and installing what we are calling the tree-stump risers, which will be placed on two sides of the space so that people can perch themselves up high or low and observe the quiet spectacle that is the Frog Park Climatescape. No politics, no sports, just a landscape to quietly cheer on, observe, and draw both sustenance and inspiration from.

To see many more photos of the project as it has taken shape, you may click HERE.