Scaling up! — Upcoming Speaking Event featuring Kate Kennen
University of Rhode Island: Landscape Architecture Lecture Series On Thursday, November 16th, the University of Rhode Island will host Kate Kennen, FASLA, founder of Offshoots Inc., and co-author with Niall Kirkwood, PHYTO: Principles and Resources for Site...
Malden River Works Invasive Plant Management Day!
Malden River Works Invasive Plant Management Day! Welcome back to the second year of Malden River Works Invasive Plant Management Day, a community-driven initiative in collaboration with Offshoots, dedicated to restoring and preserving the ecological balance of the...
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!
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
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...
Phytoremediation in the News: The International Phytotechnology Society’s 17th International Phytotechnology Conference in Chicago Illinois
From research to practice, phytoremediation strategies continue to grow and have positive impacts on contaminated sites at the 2023 Phytoremediation Conference in Chicago, IL. In May of 2023, Offshoots’ founder Kate Kennen participated in the 17th International...
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...
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...
Miyawaki Forests in Cambridge!
Offshoots recently discovered an organization called Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4Climate), the group responsible of the creation and succession of the Miyawaki Forests in Cambridge, MA. Bio4Climate was formed in 2013 when four climate activists bonded...
Phy2SUDOE: A Collaborative Resource for Advancing Phytoremediation Research and Development
Interested in learning more about phytoremediation? The Phy2SUDOE project is a 30-month long research investigation, starting on January 11th, 2020, that focuses on developing phytoremediation strategies for contaminated sites in Southern Europe. The project involves...