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Asheville and WNC treehouse builder begins Brevard treehouse installation

World Treehouses’ Brevard NC project is going up! Here’s a photo from talented World Treehouser Chukk Bruursema. When not helping Adam Laufer install giant beams into willing trees in Asheville and the surrounding area, Chukk is building artistic interiors and imaginative signs for local brewpubs and businesses, making groundbreaking art, playing music and taking photos. See some more of his work at www.ChukkBruursema.com We appreciate your help, Chukk! Always happy to get back in the saddle and do some aerial rigging and construction. Jumped in with my good friend Adam of @worldtreehouses9 This project he designed up is gonna be sweet! #treehousebuilding #garnierlimbs #Zdrag #mechanicaladvantage #pulleys #rigging #fun A photo posted by Chukk Bruursema (@chukkb) on Apr 13, 2016 at 6:20pm PDT

To climb the hugest tree…

Asheville NC treehouse builder Adam Laufer: “This video connects you with an ancient elder tree. This tree was the centerpiece of a great issue of National Geographic that I still have on my shelf from December 2012. The video only takes a second to watch, but touches on some of the thrill and awe that I feel when I’m climbing in the trees to do my work. This tree is too ancient and majestic ever to host a treehouse, but what a life-changing experience it must be to visit, let alone to climb.” World Treehouses on Facebook Treehabilitation on Facebook Join our e-list by using the form in this page’s footer. Want to build a treehouse? Contact me at 828-458-7393 or fill out our handy form.

Why did I name my treehouse business World Treehouses?

I’m the owner of Asheville NC treehouse business World Treehouses. Why did I name my business World Treehouses? I experience trees as living, wise beings that help us in many ways. Not only do they provide shelter, give their bodies for our homes, furniture, and to provide heat and light as the fuel for fire, but they are honored by cultures worldwide as teachers of patience, strength and transformation. The tree has an important place in the cosmologies and creation stories of many original peoples. Worldwide cultures offer age-old stories about a sacred tree, often referred to as the World Tree, but also known by various other names. The Pachamama Alliance has compiled a taste of these stories and others for us to savor: For the Sng’oi people of Malaysia, a person and a tree can belong with each other, and this relationship is maintained for life. Certain trees and certain people belong together. When a person belongs with a tree, they also belong with its offspring: any trees that grow from the seeds of the first tree, no matter how far […]

Building a Bridge, Building Community

Asheville tree house builder Adam Laufer: “World Treehouses is not building our bridges exactly like this, but we love it when we can bring together two of our favorite things: community…and rope! Experience how this community participates together in making their bridge, and then celebrates it when it’s done! Inspiring.” Learn more about Asheville-area treehouse builder Adam Laufer and his business, World Treehouses. Use the form in this page’s footer to hop on our mailing list!

World Treehouses: Enjoy the view from 65 feet up!

Asheville treehouse builder Adam Laufer: “My team is creating an initial design for a new treehouse near Brevard. It’s wonderful to be high in a tree, filled with the serenity and perspective of these wise living beings. We can’t wait to start building!” Learn more about Asheville-area treehouse builder Adam Laufer and his business, World Treehouses.

What is the most effective way to preserve forests? A World Treehouses field trip

On Saturday, World Treehouses staff enjoyed attending a Tree Identification walk led by Luke Cannon of Astounding Earth and sponsored by the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, a WNC group that preserves forests. The hike took place in Rough Creek Watershed – a wonderful new 870-acre public hiking spot that SAHC has preserved in western North Carolina, about 30 minutes west of Asheville. Not only do we deeply appreciate that SAHC has conserved this gorgeous tract of forestland, but we also felt that we met a kindred spirit in Luke. When he suggested that the most effective way to preserve forests was to help people make relationship with the trees, plants, birds and animals who live there, we said “YES! You’re singing our song.” Learn more about Luke Cannon and Astounding Earth. Learn more about the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Learn more about World Treehouses by clicking here, or stay in touch by using the form in this page’s footer to add your name to our mailing list. Are you interested in building relationship with Nature? We are, too! Please Like our new Facebook page that’s all about it: Treehabilitation. […]

Treehabilitation: “See how Nature grows in silence…We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

Asheville, NC treehouse builder Adam Laufer on connecting with trees: Being in the trees allows us to commune with the natural world, an experience often missing in our modern lives. A treehouse is a safe-house from the techno-distractions of our busy human world. Do you have ideas about ways to help humans and human communities connect with and deepen their relationship with Nature? We build treehouses to help families, individuals and groups connect. What do you do? How do you see Nature bringing wisdom to human beings? Let us know by commenting on this post. Stay in the conversation by signing up for our e-newsletter in the footer of this page, or by becoming a fan of our new Treehabilitation Facebook page.

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What is Treehabilitation, anyway?

Treehabilitation = human beings going to the trees and forest for centering, spiritual connection, learning and growing. In this way, we receive healing from the trees and from Nature. At World Treehouses, our goal is for all of our projects to succeed in “treehabilitating” our clients and visitors to our treehouses. We work with this in many ways, but the bottom line is that the relationship between human beings and Nature is the reason we build treehouses, tree platforms, bridges and other projects in the trees. Join us in treehabilitation! Please share your ideas with us using the form below. Or, you can join the conversation on our brand new Treehabilitation Facebook page. Notice: JavaScript is required for this content.

“We need a new mass movement that bears witness to a right way of living on our finite, life-giving planet.”

I found an interesting article about being in “right relationship” with nature, called Humans & Nature: The Right Relationship. If I were writing this article, I might have said “balanced versus imbalanced relationship” rather than “right versus wrong relationship.” Who are we to know what is “right” in the grand scheme of things? In this long, comprehensive article, the authors take a heady approach to explaining the ins and outs of achieving a shift in our economy to better relationships between humans and nature. They talk about an epiphany that will lead everyone to “commit to individual and collective changes that will lead to right relationship.” But, how do we reach such a state? The authors admit the answer is not easy to find. For me, I take the time each day to connect with others around me, whether they are human people or non-human people like trees, to acknowledge their value and take joy in their existence in any small way I can. That is one of the best ways I can make this change in my own value system. Here are […]