Offshoots is Hiring!
If you are interested please contact Offshoots, Inc. Director of Landscape Operations Joe Shafner at joe@nulloffshootsinc.com with a resume and work references. Please feel free to check out our website at www.offshootsinc.com. We look forward to hearing from you. About...
Superfund, Meet Super Plants
Plant microbiologist Sharon Doty is using microbes naturally associated with Poplar to increase success of phytoremediation efforts. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/science/superfund-plant-microbiome.html?smid=em-share
We are working remotely!
To Offshoots friends and family, We wanted to make you aware of our plan during these difficult times. In order to protect the health of our clients and staff, Offshoots is implementing the following policies: - Our office is open for business and all design projects...
Phytomining in the New York Times
"What if, as a partial substitute to traditional, energy-intensive and environmentally costly mining and smelting, the world harvested nickel plants?" Read the New York Times article here
Kate presenting at the Resilient Landscapes Symposium
Kate will be presenting her talk "Phytoremediation: Pollution Purging Plants" at the Resilient Landscapes Symposium this spring at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Can plants help remediate a site's contaminants when soil or water testing reveals something...
How can phytoremediation be used to clean up a landfill site? Ask the 7th graders!
Phytoremediation use at landfills is one of the most field implemented kinds of planted buffers in the field of phytotechnologies. Plants can be used to remediate contaminated groundwater generated by landfill leachate. Deep rooted plants such as poplars and willow...