Calahan Park Comprehensive Plan: Playground Updates!

Calahan Park Comprehensive Plan: Playground Updates!

Calahan Park debuts its new playground, a product of community collaboration and careful planning by the Burlington Parks, Recreation & Waterfront (BPRW). Guided by community insights from Offshoots’ 2022 comprehensive plan, it goes beyond being just a play...
Orchard Installation!

Orchard Installation!

Our installation team just wrapped up an addition to the Sudbury Farm Orchard! They planted an additional 8 apple trees including Malus ‘Fuji’, Malus ‘Honeycrisp’, Malus ‘Honey gold’, Malus ‘Freedom’, and Malus ‘Pink Lady’. Last year, a total of 20 trees were planted,...
Blessing of the Bay Meadow – Field Trip, July 2023

Blessing of the Bay Meadow – Field Trip, July 2023

Today was an exciting day at the Blessing of the Bay Meadow in Somerville! Offshoots met with the Somerville Pollinator Action Plan Advisory Committee and members from several local planning and advocacy organizations on site to discuss some of the successes and...
Evidence for Using Plants and Fertilizer to Help Break Down Petroleum!

Evidence for Using Plants and Fertilizer to Help Break Down Petroleum!

University of Alaska Microbiology Professor Mary Beth Leigh recently lead a team to study the long-term progress of the affects of introducing grass and fertilizer to soil test plots contaminated with petroleum. The original experiment was conducted in 1995 by the US...
Evidence for Using Plants and Fertilizer to Help Break Down Petroleum!

PHYTO Trees Clean Contaminated Stormwater!

Kate recently went on a walkthrough of DuPage County Landfill in Chicago where poplar trees are being used to clean up contaminated leachate from an unlined landfill. Since 2018, a remediation system comprised of 8,500 trees on 14 acres of land irrigated by polluted...