In Fall  2011, students in Crawford's LCC 3308 (Environmentalism and Ecocriticism) studied nature writers who built small houses and wrote about their lives there: Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Henry Beston's Outermost House and Bernd Heinrich's A Year in the Maine Woods.  Each writer built in a different technique: timber frame, dimensional lumber, and log.

The class, which  consisted of Building Construction majors, took as their projects the construction of three replica houses and divided into teams to research their author's life and writing, the writing of that period in American Literature, as well as the history and cultural implications of each building technique. They then built a structure in that particular style.

The houses were on display for a year in front of the Georgia Tech Architecture Building. The log house was previously moved to the playground at the Atlanta Day Women and Children's Shelter.

They now find their permanent homes at English Avenue Community Urban Farms, a non-profit organization whose mission is to develop green space and public safety initiatives to improve the quality of life of English Avenue residents.