Doyle Park Block Day
The Doyle Park Block Party & Pop-up park was a great success! We’re excited about our partnership with the Southwest Boston CDC, the Solomon Foundation, and DCR to design a new low maintenance park for the Hyde Park community. Thank you to Hyde Park Community for...
Offshoots is Looking for a Lead Gardener!
Lead Gardener, Maintenance Manager Offshoots Inc. is landscape architecture and installation firm looking for a full-time Lead Gardener to take over management and care of our maintenance accounts. Candidate must be an experienced gardener, horticulturalist or...
PHYTO RESEARCH CASE STUDY – Travis Air Force Base
PHYTOREMEDIATION RESEARCH CASE STUDY: Chlorinated Solvents Project Name: Travis Air Force Base (Klein, 2011) (Doucette et al 2013) (Parsons, 2010) Caption: Gaseous TCE releases from trees and soil surface into the atmosphere were measured on this site to determine...
Offshoots is Hiring a Landscape Designer
Landscape Designer – Part-time or Full-time Offshoots, Inc. seeks a part-time landscape designer to join our Boston office team for in-house graphics development. Full-time option is possible depending on the candidate. We are looking for a self-starting and flexible...
PHYTO – Case Study – Ford Motor Company Factory
Project Name: Ford Motor Company Factory (Barac et al 1999) Location: Genk, Belgium Scientists: Tanja Barac (a); Nele Weyens (a); Licy Oeyen (a); Safiyh Taghavi (b); Daniel van der Lelie (b); Dirk Dubin (c); Marco Spliet (d); Jaco Vangronsveld (a)...
Prepping Site for a Phytobuffer
Offshoots, Inc is preparing a phytobuffer site. At a family-owned natural stone supplier, Offshoots's team is taking down a small set of Spruce to clear the way for poplars to protect the site and groundwater from a petroleum leak that occurred on the site. High...
Testing Heavy Metal Remediation Possibilities of Biomass Production Crops
Article from the European Commission Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS). E.U. has funded Phyto2Energy Initiative studies potential of using plants grown for biomass to also remediate pollutants from the soil. Chelators (soil additives) may...
Green Wall Planting Medium Matters for Air Pollution Removal
New article in the Journal of Hazardous Materials found on ScienceDirect. With the growing attention of functional green walls for their air cleaning abilities, this study concerns the possibility of increasing their remediation abilities by adjusting the substrate....
Offshoots Bikes the Charles River for Vegetation Management Plan
Offshoots took to the Charles River Reservation with Weston & Sampson and the Boston Department of Recreation and Conservation for the upcoming Charles River Vegetation Management Plan. Read more about the CRVMP on our projects page. [gallery columns="2"...
Testing Prolific Growth Aquatic Plants to Remediate Metal Pollutants
An Article from The Conversation: U.K. tests phytoremediation potential of fast-growing Eichhornia crassipes (water hyacinth) with promising results. Because the water hyacinth is invasive, testing plants were arranged in pods in the river to keep the species...