Be on the lookout for the Spotted Lantern Fly!
This time of year it is super important to be on the look out for the Spotted Lantern Fly! This little guy, while very beautiful, is our decimating native plant communities and agricultural systems. The Spotted Lantern Fly originates in Asia; because it did not evolve...
Researchers find wetland plant can filter PFAS chemicals!
PFAS is a BIG emerging contaminant of concern, and new studies are starting to pop up looking at how plants can help remediate polluted waters - check out this new study will likely impact the phytoremediation world! Conducted by Australian and Chinese researchers,...
Offshoots’ Installation Team is STILL Hiring!
It's true - our Install Team is hiring for FOUR positions! Join us as a Field Supervisor/Landscape Foreman, Gardener/Horticulturalist, Landscape Planting Crew Member, or our 2022 Summer Landscape Planting and Gardening Intern. About Offshoots: Focused on creating...
Stacking functions with ecological noise barriers
Noise barriers are often costly and serve only a single purpose; we are excited to have discovered Ramo, a company that offers green barriers, a form of stacking ecological functions and integrating phytotechnology. Check out their website:...
Offshoots is Hiring a Bookkeeper / Office Admin
Bookkeeper & Office Administrator Offshoots, Inc. is seeking a part-time bookkeeper and office administrator. Expected hours are 20-30 hours a week with flexible working hours. Position will involve a combination of in-office work with the potential for some...
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,...