Offshoots is Hiring an Office Administrative Assistant
Office Administrative Assistant Offshoots, Inc. is seeking a part-time Office Administrative Assistant for 15-20 hours a week. Hours are flexible. The position will involve working 1 day a week in the office with the rest of the work able to be conducted remotely. The...
Offshoots is Hiring an Office Manager!
Office Manager Offshoots, Inc. is seeking an Office Administrative Manager for 40 hours a week. The position will involve a combination of in-office work and remote work. The candidate will assist in managing business operations and day-to-day activities of the firm –...
Offshoots is Hiring an Experienced Gardener/Horticulturist!
Experienced Gardener/Horticulturalist Offshoots Inc. is looking for an experienced gardener with prior organic gardening or sustainable landscaping experience to join our garden maintenance team. The individual shall be eager to work with and learn about plants with a...
Offshoots is Hiring!
Landscape Laborer We are seeking a seasonal fall landscape laborer to work on residential and commercial landscape and garden installations with our horticulture team. We focus on creating sustainable, ecologically sound landscapes and are looking for hard-working...
Mycofiltration Project
We’re so excited to announce we’ve been selected by MassDOT to conduct a yearlong research project concerning mycofiltration treatment for stormwater management. Mycofiltration is a nascent stormwater management technology that utilizes mycelium or fungal webs as...
Completed Hood Construction
And that's a wrap! The Offshoots installation team has finished installing the Hood Park project located at 6 Stack Street! Here is a time-lapse of some of the installation. [video width="1280" height="718"...
Sunflowers vs Radioactive Waste – How Effective Are They?
This article from Nature World News adds to the previous literature concluding that using sunflowers to remediate radioactive waste in the field is NOT a reliably effective strategy, despite the success of lab studies. Unfortunate, but good to debunk the myths! Read...
Charlestown Patriot-Bridge Writes About Offshoot’s Hood Project
Our Hood project was written up in the local paper, the Charlestown Patriot-Bridge. Read the full article here
Ipswich Middle Schoolers Get a Lesson in Ecology
The other week, Kate Kennen of Offshoots along with Joanne and Kylie from Studio MNLA ran an 'Ipswich Green Team' session for 6th through 8th graders at our New England Biolabs Childcare Facility Project. Students learned the importance of wetlands, native ecologies,...
Free Webinar! Phytotechnology: A Nature-Based Approach to Containing Contamination
Save the Date! On Wednesday, July 28th, from 1:00-2:30PM EDT the US EPA's Soak Up the Rain New England Webinar Series presents, "Phytotechnology: a Nature-Based Approach to Containing Contamination." Jessica Dominguez and Juan Perez of EPA Region 1 will join Kate...