Hiring Two Landscape Architects
Hiring 2 positions: Landscape Designer/ Architect: 1-3 Years Experience and Landscape Designer/ Architect: 3-5 Years Experience Offshoots, Inc. seeks two candidates to join our Boston office team. We are looking for two self-starting and flexible individuals to help...
Sheet Mulching
Sheet Mulching As we come into the fall season it’s a great time to start thinking about planning new garden spaces. Sheet mulching, or lasagna composting, can make your job much easier. Sheet Mulching is a technique of layering organic materials, nitrogen (green) and...
Hugelkulture
Are you tired of watering your plants constantly or spending too much money on your irrigation bill? If so, Hugelkulture might be the answer for you. Hugelkulture (“hoogle culture” or mound culture) is a technique that uses woody debris such as branches,...
Coppicing Trees
Have you ever cut down a tree just to have it grow back, even multiply? Well, you may just be that trees best friend. Coppicing is a method of tree management based on the regeneration of new shoots, or suckers, of wood when a tree is cut to the ground. Coppicing...
Could Crimson Clover Be the Next Boxwood?
When I was in New York a few weeks ago, I decided to check out the Edible Plants Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. My discovery on that early spring April day: Crimson Red Clover was being used as both a cover crop and an aesthetically beautiful hedge!! Clover is...
Bring Life to Tired Spaces
By thinking creatively and drawing inspiration from nature, you can turn any dull landscape into a bright, reinvented space. Consider the “Crack Garden” by CMG Landscape Architecture as an example. Homeowners wanted to redesign their landscape and were faced with a...
Edible Spring Weeds
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Don’t let weeds get you down this spring. Eat them! Common weeds found in your lawn and garden can be both nutritional and delicious. Knotweed and Chickweed are two such...
Permaculture Design
Our company is in the process of maximizing our use of permaculture concepts. As a project manager here at Offshoots, I am responsible for the design and implementation of new productive landscape systems and strategies into our residential installations. This has...
Hiring: Landscape Installation Crew Members
We are seeking a seasonal intern with a degree in Landscape Contracting, Horticulture or similar (or working towards a degree) to assist with our residential design and installation projects. Candidates will be highly motivated individuals with enough energy and drive...
Kate Kennen Speaking at Ecological Landscape Conference
Kate Kennen will be speaking at the Ecological Landscape Association Conference in Springfield, MA on Thursday 2/28. The title of the presentation is: "Phytoremediation: Selected Plants for Urban Restoration" Information on the conference can be found at:...