NorthCreek Nursery – Space Invaders: Multiflora Rose
NorthCreek Nursery, one of our favorite sources for native plant plugs, has an excellent blog post this month on how this common MA invasive arrived here, how it spreads and impacts the landscape, and steps you can take right now to minimize it's spread. Check it out...
Carbon-Negative Concrete: Meet CarbiCrete!
As Landscape Architects, we are always trying to find ways to reduce a project's carbon footprint, yet one of the most ubiquitous, materials we find ourselves having to specify is concrete; however, the production of concrete produces a lot of carbon dioxide. This is...
Seed Germination at New England Biolabs!
A few weeks ago our installation team wrapped up work on a woodland transition restoration project in Ipswich. The planting mimics the existing Oak-Hickory Forest to create a transition zone that will help restore the woodland edge over time. Quick germinating fescues...
Green Barriers by Ramo!
Check out this green barrier by Ramo! We are always happy to find low carbon footprint alternatives to concrete, plastic, and unsustainable wood sourcing. This noise barrier looks like a promising alternative. Source:...
Hood Bike Park is in Landscape Architecture Magazine!
We are thrilled to find Offshoots’ work featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine (October 2022 issue)! Offshoots and Elkus Manfredi worked together to create Hood Bike Park, a phytoremediating bicycle hub and social space in Charlestown, MA and we are thrilled to...
Hood Bike Park is in Architectural Record!
It’s an honor to find Offshoots’ work featured in Architectural Record (5/2022 issue)! Offshoots and Elkus Manfredi worked together to create Hood Bike Park, a phytoremediating bicycle hub and social space in Charlestown, MA and we are thrilled to have received a 2022...
Help Save the Monarch Butterfly!
Did you know that as of July 2022, the Monarch Butterfly has been classified by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as Endangered?! Threatened by habitat destruction and climate change, all surviving sturgeon species – also migratory, found across the northern...
Cable Mills Receives a BSA Design Award!
As part of a team collaboration with Merge Architects, the Cable Mills Modern Mill project received a 2021 award from the Boston Society of Architecture! The Cable Mills Modern Mill project is a new construction multi-family, 6-unit housing project in Williamstown,...
Phy2SUDOE Workshop: Phytomanagement for Soil Remediation
On October 6th, 2022 Interreg Sudoe Phy2SUDOE (funded by the European Union) will host it's 3rd Workshop: Phytomanagement for Soil Remediation and the Creation of Value. Soil contamination is a widespread problem in Europe with adverse consequences for biodiversity,...
Offshoots is in the BSLA Field Book this month!
Pick up a copy of the BSLA Field Book HOME issue! We are happy to help celebrate Lynn Wolff's legacy and Women's Lunch Place on Newbury Street in Boston by sharing an article written by Offshoots' Kate Kennen and Nelle Ward that was published in the HOME issue of the...