Landscape Interactions

Some fun we’ve been having over the past few weeks (part three): renovating sections of an old field that are dominated by non-native vegetation and monocultures of saplings to prepare for the installation of highly diverse custom seed mixes this fall.

Some fun we’ve been having over the past few weeks (part two): co-presenting Healthy Soil through Biodiversity: Replicable Models for Resilience at the BSLA FIELDDAY Conference with project collaborators Rubén Parilla, Soil Technical Services + Education Director, NOFA/Mass and Sister Anna Gilbert-Muhammad, Food Sovereignty Director, Pocasset Pokanoket Land Trust. Funded by a Healthy Soils Action Grant through the Massachusetts Healthy Soils Initiative.

Stay tuned for the project launch in early July with ten public access designs for biodiverse + resilient landscapes available as a free pdf!

Some fun we’ve been having over the past few weeks (part one): prescribed fire to restore an 8-acre old field into a native species-dominant grassland.

Thanks to Star Tree Prescribed Fire and the Leyden, Colrain and Bernardston Fire Departments for making it happen!

Join us tomorrow at FIELDDAY, New England’s Conference on Landscape Architecture.

Landscape Interactions Founding Principal Evan Abramson will be presenting alongside NOFA/Mass Soil Technical Services + Education Director Rubén Parrilla and Pocasset Pokanoket Land Trust Food Sovereignty Director Sister Anna Gilbert-Muhammad on Building Soil through Biodiversity: Replicable Models for Resilience. They will be reporting on two years of collaboration to transform sites across Western Massachusetts into biodiversity hotspots that sequester elevated levels of carbon and support local food security. Catch them at the David Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard University at 11:30 AM.

Just arrived in Detroit! Looking forward to presenting at tomorrow. Come say hi if you’re here!

While biodiversity is a goal for many landscape architects and designers, few projects utilize science to document the impact of designed landscapes on ecosystems or species.

Join us tomorrow at the UMass-Amherst Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning for a presentation by Landscape Interactions Founding Principal Evan Abramson on ways to design and measure biodiversity.

Join us this Thursday at the UMass-Amherst Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning for a presentation by Landscape Interactions Founding Principal Evan Abramson on Designing Biodiversity.

While biodiversity is a goal for many landscape architects and designers, few projects utilize science to document the impacts of designed landscapes on ecosystems or species. Featuring a series of case studies from Landscape Interactions’ own practice, this session will present diverse approaches to understanding how landscape interactions influence the biodiversity of sites and communities.

At last week’s NOFA/Mass Winter Conference, Landscape Interactions Principal Evan Abramson joined Anna Gilbert-Muhammad, Food Access Director , Jason Comcowich, Development and Community Partnership Director , Rubén Parilla, Education Director , and Brooke Bullock and John Collector, Co-Owners for an engaging dialogue around their two-year collaboration to build above and belowground biodiversity on sites across Western Massachusetts. Funded by a Healthy Soils Action Grant from the Healthy Soils Initiative , a series of scalable and replicable designs for maximizing biodiversity will be made available to the public this spring.

A few spots are still available for tomorrow’s free meadow making workshop at Stonebridge Farm, where we’ll be installing a native pasture to feed livestock and at-risk pollinators simultaneously. Learn how to create a meadow from seed and get your hands dirty in the process. RSVP at tinyurl.com/max-bio

Some photos of us and the farmers at Stonebridge installing a riparian buffer at their pond a few weeks ago.

This work is supported by the Massachusetts Healthy Soils Initiative.

Free native seed identification, collection and winter sowing workshop this weekend in Wellesley. Details in the fourth slide.