TODAY’S THE DAY — Submit a project to the 2026 BSLA Design Awards!

We look forward to recognizing design excellence in the range of work that is landscape architecture of New England. Projects anywhere (!) BY Massachusetts, Maine, or New Hampshire firms are eligible, as well as projects by anyone (!) located IN these three states.

Find the Call for Entries and all Design Awards info here. Final deadline April 17.

Ready to upload? Submit your entry here.

See the 2025 award winners here.

Update 4/14: this activity is postponed until the summer.

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Landscape architects + designers + students + friends:

Join us for this annual event of the Western Mass section. We volunteer with the City of Northampton and area nonprofits on a project of their choosing that helps to improve outdoor spaces. Past activities have included weeding, planting, trail building, and dock moving. We're collaborating with our partners to finalize details for this spring's service.

It's a great way to connect with each other as we help our community. If you own gloves or loppers, please bring them!

Sign up so that we can send you all the details.

RSVP

Please email Jeff and Chris with any questions.

All are welcome + appreciated.

Thank you!

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NOTE: RSVP appreciated, not required; it's OK to just show up! The tickets are only to help us with planning.

In Person. Free.

Join us! Middle School City Build is a FREE pilot program for 6th - 8th graders to explore architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and construction in the Lewiston/Auburn area.

Register Here

Sign up for one or all time slots!

Want to volunteer? Sign up here.

Bringing world class perspectives to Portland’s design community. Join BSLA in this annual celebration! Tuesday evenings in April.

Architalx 2026 details + tickets

Can’t be there? Most lectures offer virtual options, too.

In Person. Free.

Join us! Middle School City Build is a FREE pilot program for 6th - 8th graders to explore architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and construction in the Lewiston/Auburn area.

Register Here

Sign up for one or all time slots!

Want to volunteer? Sign up here.

Online.

The relatively new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee of BSLA aims to foster a network of welcoming support focused on people of color and other minorities within and beyond the organization.

Given current events, this is necessary now more than ever.

What’s on your mind? What’s your lived experience? What do you/your colleagues need? How can we act together?

Members + non-members, students and recent graduates to seasoned leaders are welcome. Join us.

Click here to join the Zoom

Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023

In Person. Free.

Join us! Middle School City Build is a FREE pilot program for 6th - 8th graders to explore architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and construction in the Lewiston/Auburn area.

Register Here

Sign up for one or all time slots!

Want to volunteer? Sign up here.

Free. In person in the John W. Olver Design Building Lecture Hall (Room 170), University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The UMass Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning's Zube Lecture Series invites leading scholars and practitioners from around the world to give weekly talks on major topics in landscape architecture, planning, sustainability, and related fields. 

The spring semester Zube Lecture Series continues with a Zube Lecture Series panel discussion featuring graduates of the regional planning master's program at UMass Amherst. This event will be held on Thursday, April 23rd, at 4:00 p.m. in the Design Building Lecture Hall (room 170). Admission is free and open to the public. Snacks and drinks will be provided.

A recording of this discussion will be posted to UMass LARP's YouTube channel following the event.

See details on this lecture and the entire series.

In Person. Free.

Join us! Middle School City Build is a FREE pilot program for 6th - 8th graders to explore architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and construction in the Lewiston/Auburn area.

Register Here

Sign up for one or all time slots!

Want to volunteer? Sign up here.

"Rise Up" at the Museum of Science brings together hundreds of kids and families for hands' on activities. We'll join other professionals and organizations who are working to make a difference addressing climate change. The day is about "informing, empowering, and inspiring action."

Help us share the stories of what landscape architecture can do.

Sign up here to volunteer — whatever amount you’re able.

Lunch, parking, and free museum tickets provided. Thank you!

Online. All welcome.

Zoom link here

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Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.

All are welcome.

Bringing world class perspectives to Portland’s design community. Join BSLA in this annual celebration! Tuesday evenings in April.

Architalx 2026 details + tickets

Can’t be there? Most lectures offer virtual options, too.

Free. In person in the John W. Olver Design Building Lecture Hall (Room 170), University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The UMass Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning's Zube Lecture Series invites leading scholars and practitioners from around the world to give weekly talks on major topics in landscape architecture, planning, sustainability, and related fields. 

The spring semester Zube Lecture Series continues with a Zube Lecture Series special event to announce and celebrate the 2026 recipients of the UMass LARP annual student awards. 

See details on this lecture and the entire series.

Online.

This is an informal, monthly drop-in Zoom meeting of landscape architecture firm owners and leaders. 

Our goal is to create a space where New England landscape architecture firm owners and leaders can connect, commiserate, compare notes, and hopefully laugh a little with your peers in this community.

There is no fixed agenda, but we will start with a few discussion prompts and then you can take the conversation wherever you want to go. 

Questions or topics to discuss? contact BSLA President & Crowley Cottrell firm owner, Michelle Crowley.

Do you want to receive the monthly calendar invite? email Gretchen.

Here’s the Zoom link for 2026.

Online. Free. All welcome.

Join the Zoom

Our popular Firm Leaders / Owner's Zoom meetup has a new cousin: an online Zoom meetup for Solopreneurs!

This is a drop-in, come-as-you-are space to connect, commiserate, compare notes, and share a laugh with others who are also sole practitioners or leading tiny practices. Whether you recently went out on your own or have been doing this for decades, stop by and say hello.

This is a monthly thing. Members + non-members welcome. New England solo/small firms, this is a space for you.

To be added to the Google calendar invite, email Gretchen.

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In the photo: a solo plug from the Van Berkum Nursery Tour by solopreneur (and BSLA Plants Task Force Chair) April Maly.

In Person and Online. Free.

Grow Native Massachusetts: Evenings with Experts

Explore the Nighttime World of Caterpillars & Moths

May 20 | 7:00 - 8:30pm

Where: IN PERSON at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, 11 French Drive, Boylston, MA & ONLINE via Zoom

Sign Up for Zoom (No Registration Needed to Attend in Person)

The Caterpillar Lab will present a photograph and video packed talk that explores the nighttime world of caterpillars, moths, and how to find them. Join us to learn how we can explore our own backyard habitats through the eyes of a moth, using UV and special light traps to uncover a whole new perspective. This special lecture will include time to meet a few special caterpillar specimens up close and, and chat with Caterpillar Lab educators about all things local caterpillar. In-person attendees will also get to try out blacklight flashlights!

The Caterpillar Lab is a non-profit based in New Hampshire that fosters greater appreciation and care for the complexity and beauty of natural history through live caterpillar educational programs, research initiatives, and photography and film projects. They believe that an increased awareness of one’s local environment is the foundation on which healthy and responsible attitudes towards the broader natural systems of this world are built.

Online.

This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.

This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.

The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.

It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.

The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!

Online. All welcome.

Zoom link here

.

Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.

All are welcome.

Online.

The relatively new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee of BSLA aims to foster a network of welcoming support focused on people of color and other minorities within and beyond the organization.

Given current events, this is necessary now more than ever.

What’s on your mind? What’s your lived experience? What do you/your colleagues need? How can we act together?

Members + non-members, students and recent graduates to seasoned leaders are welcome. Join us.

Click here to join the Zoom

Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023

In Person at Progression Brewery, Northampton

The Western Mass Section of BSLA invites students, landscape architects, designers, teachers, makers, and all in our larger landscape architecture community to a Summer Social! Classmates, colleagues, friends, ALL ARE WELCOME.

RSVP Here

Say hi to old friends and meet someone new... Bring a coworker, family, friends, ALL ARE WELCOME. UMass and Five College and Conway students, this includes you!

Tickets are free for students + members, $10 non-members, and include lots of hot appetizers and 1 free drink ticket. Come and hang out + share good cheer.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Online. Free. All welcome.

Join the Zoom

Our popular Firm Leaders / Owner's Zoom meetup has a new cousin: an online Zoom meetup for Solopreneurs!

This is a drop-in, come-as-you-are space to connect, commiserate, compare notes, and share a laugh with others who are also sole practitioners or leading tiny practices. Whether you recently went out on your own or have been doing this for decades, stop by and say hello.

This is a monthly thing. Members + non-members welcome. New England solo/small firms, this is a space for you.

To be added to the Google calendar invite, email Gretchen.

.

In the photo: a solo plug from the Van Berkum Nursery Tour by solopreneur (and BSLA Plants Task Force Chair) April Maly.

Online.

This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.

This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.

The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.

It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.

The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!

Online. All welcome.

Zoom link here

.

Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.

All are welcome.

Online.

The relatively new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee of BSLA aims to foster a network of welcoming support focused on people of color and other minorities within and beyond the organization.

Given current events, this is necessary now more than ever.

What’s on your mind? What’s your lived experience? What do you/your colleagues need? How can we act together?

Members + non-members, students and recent graduates to seasoned leaders are welcome. Join us.

Click here to join the Zoom

Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023

Online. Free. All welcome.

Join the Zoom

Our popular Firm Leaders / Owner's Zoom meetup has a new cousin: an online Zoom meetup for Solopreneurs!

This is a drop-in, come-as-you-are space to connect, commiserate, compare notes, and share a laugh with others who are also sole practitioners or leading tiny practices. Whether you recently went out on your own or have been doing this for decades, stop by and say hello.

This is a monthly thing. Members + non-members welcome. New England solo/small firms, this is a space for you.

To be added to the Google calendar invite, email Gretchen.

.

In the photo: a solo plug from the Van Berkum Nursery Tour by solopreneur (and BSLA Plants Task Force Chair) April Maly.

Online.

This is an informal, monthly drop-in Zoom meeting of landscape architecture firm owners and leaders. 

Our goal is to create a space where New England landscape architecture firm owners and leaders can connect, commiserate, compare notes, and hopefully laugh a little with your peers in this community.

There is no fixed agenda, but we will start with a few discussion prompts and then you can take the conversation wherever you want to go. 

Questions or topics to discuss? contact BSLA President & Crowley Cottrell firm owner, Michelle Crowley.

Do you want to receive the monthly calendar invite? email Gretchen.

Here’s the Zoom link for 2026.

Online.

This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.

This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.

The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.

It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.

The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!

Online.

The relatively new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee of BSLA aims to foster a network of welcoming support focused on people of color and other minorities within and beyond the organization.

Given current events, this is necessary now more than ever.

What’s on your mind? What’s your lived experience? What do you/your colleagues need? How can we act together?

Members + non-members, students and recent graduates to seasoned leaders are welcome. Join us.

Click here to join the Zoom

Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023

Online. All welcome.

Zoom link here

.

Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.

All are welcome.

Online. Free. All welcome.

Join the Zoom

Our popular Firm Leaders / Owner's Zoom meetup has a new cousin: an online Zoom meetup for Solopreneurs!

This is a drop-in, come-as-you-are space to connect, commiserate, compare notes, and share a laugh with others who are also sole practitioners or leading tiny practices. Whether you recently went out on your own or have been doing this for decades, stop by and say hello.

This is a monthly thing. Members + non-members welcome. New England solo/small firms, this is a space for you.

To be added to the Google calendar invite, email Gretchen.

.

In the photo: a solo plug from the Van Berkum Nursery Tour by solopreneur (and BSLA Plants Task Force Chair) April Maly.

Online.

This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.

This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.

The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.

It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.

The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!

Online. All welcome.

Zoom link here

.

Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.

All are welcome.

Online.

The relatively new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee of BSLA aims to foster a network of welcoming support focused on people of color and other minorities within and beyond the organization.

Given current events, this is necessary now more than ever.

What’s on your mind? What’s your lived experience? What do you/your colleagues need? How can we act together?

Members + non-members, students and recent graduates to seasoned leaders are welcome. Join us.

Click here to join the Zoom

Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023

Online. Free. All welcome.

Join the Zoom

Our popular Firm Leaders / Owner's Zoom meetup has a new cousin: an online Zoom meetup for Solopreneurs!

This is a drop-in, come-as-you-are space to connect, commiserate, compare notes, and share a laugh with others who are also sole practitioners or leading tiny practices. Whether you recently went out on your own or have been doing this for decades, stop by and say hello.

This is a monthly thing. Members + non-members welcome. New England solo/small firms, this is a space for you.

To be added to the Google calendar invite, email Gretchen.

.

In the photo: a solo plug from the Van Berkum Nursery Tour by solopreneur (and BSLA Plants Task Force Chair) April Maly.

Online.

This is an informal, monthly drop-in Zoom meeting of landscape architecture firm owners and leaders. 

Our goal is to create a space where New England landscape architecture firm owners and leaders can connect, commiserate, compare notes, and hopefully laugh a little with your peers in this community.

There is no fixed agenda, but we will start with a few discussion prompts and then you can take the conversation wherever you want to go. 

Questions or topics to discuss? contact BSLA President & Crowley Cottrell firm owner, Michelle Crowley.

Do you want to receive the monthly calendar invite? email Gretchen.

Here’s the Zoom link for 2026.

Online.

This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.

This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.

The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.

It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.

The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!

In person. Free.

Join us for a hike, a beer, or both!

Landscape architects + designers, students + coworkers, family + friends:

Join us for a light-hearted fall hike, followed by food and drink. A Western Mass BSLA Social!

The "agenda" is to enjoy this special landscape and have fun together. We'll meet at Mass Audobon's Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary in Easthampton at 10:30am and hike some of their 4 miles of trails.

Afterwards, we'll head over to Abandoned Building Brewery -- around noon.

The Arcadia entrance fee + the first round of drinks will be covered by BSLA.

RSVP here

All are welcome. Say hi to an old friend and meet someone new. Bring a partner, or kids, or a classmate... you get the idea. Five College students, this includes you! The vibe is informal and fun.

PLEASE NOTE: Tickets are FREE. RSVP requested to make communication easier in case of bad weather. We aim to go in most conditions, but if anything changes due to weather, we'll email all ticket holders + will announce here and via Instagram (@BSLAoffice).

At Arcadia or at the Brewery, it is OK to just show up, too.

Please come dressed for the weather, with shoes good for walking, water bottle and sun protection.

Directions: click here.

Join us outside! We look forward to seeing you

Online. All welcome.

Zoom link here

.

Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.

All are welcome.

Online.

The relatively new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee of BSLA aims to foster a network of welcoming support focused on people of color and other minorities within and beyond the organization.

Given current events, this is necessary now more than ever.

What’s on your mind? What’s your lived experience? What do you/your colleagues need? How can we act together?

Members + non-members, students and recent graduates to seasoned leaders are welcome. Join us.

Click here to join the Zoom

Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023

Online. Free. All welcome.

Join the Zoom

Our popular Firm Leaders / Owner's Zoom meetup has a new cousin: an online Zoom meetup for Solopreneurs!

This is a drop-in, come-as-you-are space to connect, commiserate, compare notes, and share a laugh with others who are also sole practitioners or leading tiny practices. Whether you recently went out on your own or have been doing this for decades, stop by and say hello.

This is a monthly thing. Members + non-members welcome. New England solo/small firms, this is a space for you.

To be added to the Google calendar invite, email Gretchen.

.

In the photo: a solo plug from the Van Berkum Nursery Tour by solopreneur (and BSLA Plants Task Force Chair) April Maly.

Online.

This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.

This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.

The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.

It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.

The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!

Online. All welcome.

Zoom link here

.

Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.

All are welcome.

Online.

The relatively new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee of BSLA aims to foster a network of welcoming support focused on people of color and other minorities within and beyond the organization.

Given current events, this is necessary now more than ever.

What’s on your mind? What’s your lived experience? What do you/your colleagues need? How can we act together?

Members + non-members, students and recent graduates to seasoned leaders are welcome. Join us.

Click here to join the Zoom

Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023

Online. Free. All welcome.

Join the Zoom

Our popular Firm Leaders / Owner's Zoom meetup has a new cousin: an online Zoom meetup for Solopreneurs!

This is a drop-in, come-as-you-are space to connect, commiserate, compare notes, and share a laugh with others who are also sole practitioners or leading tiny practices. Whether you recently went out on your own or have been doing this for decades, stop by and say hello.

This is a monthly thing. Members + non-members welcome. New England solo/small firms, this is a space for you.

To be added to the Google calendar invite, email Gretchen.

.

In the photo: a solo plug from the Van Berkum Nursery Tour by solopreneur (and BSLA Plants Task Force Chair) April Maly.

Online.

This is an informal, monthly drop-in Zoom meeting of landscape architecture firm owners and leaders. 

Our goal is to create a space where New England landscape architecture firm owners and leaders can connect, commiserate, compare notes, and hopefully laugh a little with your peers in this community.

There is no fixed agenda, but we will start with a few discussion prompts and then you can take the conversation wherever you want to go. 

Questions or topics to discuss? contact BSLA President & Crowley Cottrell firm owner, Michelle Crowley.

Do you want to receive the monthly calendar invite? email Gretchen.

Here’s the Zoom link for 2026.

Online.

This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.

This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.

The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.

It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.

The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!

Online. All welcome.

Zoom link here

.

Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.

All are welcome.

Online.

The relatively new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee of BSLA aims to foster a network of welcoming support focused on people of color and other minorities within and beyond the organization.

Given current events, this is necessary now more than ever.

What’s on your mind? What’s your lived experience? What do you/your colleagues need? How can we act together?

Members + non-members, students and recent graduates to seasoned leaders are welcome. Join us.

Click here to join the Zoom

Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023

Online. Free. All welcome.

Join the Zoom

Our popular Firm Leaders / Owner's Zoom meetup has a new cousin: an online Zoom meetup for Solopreneurs!

This is a drop-in, come-as-you-are space to connect, commiserate, compare notes, and share a laugh with others who are also sole practitioners or leading tiny practices. Whether you recently went out on your own or have been doing this for decades, stop by and say hello.

This is a monthly thing. Members + non-members welcome. New England solo/small firms, this is a space for you.

To be added to the Google calendar invite, email Gretchen.

.

In the photo: a solo plug from the Van Berkum Nursery Tour by solopreneur (and BSLA Plants Task Force Chair) April Maly.

Online.

This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.

This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.

The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.

It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.

The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!

Online. All welcome.

Zoom link here

.

Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.

All are welcome.

Online.

The relatively new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee of BSLA aims to foster a network of welcoming support focused on people of color and other minorities within and beyond the organization.

Given current events, this is necessary now more than ever.

What’s on your mind? What’s your lived experience? What do you/your colleagues need? How can we act together?

Members + non-members, students and recent graduates to seasoned leaders are welcome. Join us.

Click here to join the Zoom

Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023

Online.

This is an informal, monthly drop-in Zoom meeting of landscape architecture firm owners and leaders. 

Our goal is to create a space where New England landscape architecture firm owners and leaders can connect, commiserate, compare notes, and hopefully laugh a little with your peers in this community.

There is no fixed agenda, but we will start with a few discussion prompts and then you can take the conversation wherever you want to go. 

Questions or topics to discuss? contact BSLA President & Crowley Cottrell firm owner, Michelle Crowley.

Do you want to receive the monthly calendar invite? email Gretchen.

Here’s the Zoom link for 2026 + January 2027(!!!)

Online. Free. All welcome.

Join the Zoom

Our popular Firm Leaders / Owner's Zoom meetup has a new cousin: an online Zoom meetup for Solopreneurs!

This is a drop-in, come-as-you-are space to connect, commiserate, compare notes, and share a laugh with others who are also sole practitioners or leading tiny practices. Whether you recently went out on your own or have been doing this for decades, stop by and say hello.

This is a monthly thing. Members + non-members welcome. New England solo/small firms, this is a space for you.

To be added to the Google calendar invite, email Gretchen.

.

In the photo: a solo plug from the Van Berkum Nursery Tour by solopreneur (and BSLA Plants Task Force Chair) April Maly.