'Winter is when we do our housekeeping. This is the display area, with purpose built structures, where we hope people will come for inspiration. Over the Winter we refine and rework, as with the (re)laying of granite setts around the SHED in early 2017, which were from the original road network through the docks.

Some structures are lost over time. There was a wigwam which was burned down. The present SHED was constructed from 1998 to 2002, on the site of a previous building, which also burned. The Green Room was built in 1992. It was used for 3 summers as a shelter and outdoor classroom with children, ecology students and volunteers, before being destroyed, apparently by arson. The charred building was taken down and buried in one day. In retrospect it was a springboard, letting us imagine new ways the landscape could be inhabited.
Eco-shelter, CLaudia Vogelman POWIA with Imre Makovecz studio and The Prince's Foundation, Stave Hill Ecological Park 1992. Photo from Stave Hill archive.