Upcoming events + activities
The BSLA Calendar
If you want to connect, learn, or grow, there are things here for you.
We’re continuously building this calendar to be a big, beautiful summary of all-things-landscape-architecture in our region.
What else do you want to see? Please send ideas or info our way! Email details to chapteroffice@bslanow.org. Thanks!
GDIRC Bi-Monthly Meeting
Online. Free. All welcome.
Join us for the Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children (GDIRC) bi-monthly meeting! This meeting is hosted via Zoom.
RSVP here to receive join information for this meeting. This information will be included in your confirmation email.
The Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children is led jointly by BSLA and BSA. To find out more, visit the GDIRC website here or visit the Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children Knowledge Community page on the BSA website here.
Inside/Out: Henry Street Farm
In person. Free.
Join us outside! We are thrilled to invite you to the sixth year of "Inside/Out" -- landscape architecture site tours across our region.
Our 2025 series continues at a rooftop farm in Cambridge...
RSVP here
We will explore the challenges and delight of designing and installing a residential urban farm that encourages community engagement while optimizing available space.
Collaboration with the homeowner, structural engineers, contractors, designers, and neighbors was key to achieving space efficiency and maximizing the functional output of the underutilized black rubber roof. The project’s modern cistern, buried underground for rainwater harvesting, provided an effective stormwater management solution. Additionally, a walkable elevated deck connected the homeowner's second-story kitchen directly to the rooftop garden, enhancing accessibility.
The shared benefits extended to all nearby residents, improving views, air quality, and creating a peaceful green retreat in the urban setting. The garden also serves as a community hub, offering educational and research opportunities on sustainable urban farming. Careful planning and open communication with neighbors minimized disruption during construction, respecting daily routines. By addressing both the short-term construction impact and long-term beauty, the project balanced challenges with lasting rewards for the community.
If you were inspired by the related Lightning Talk at Fieldday, you'll love exploring this project firsthand! (Check out Mark Winterer's 5 minute talk, starting at 1:19 in this video.)
All are welcome.
Members and non-members too. Tickets are FREE, tour size limited, registration appreciated. Please come dressed for the weather, prepared to walk outside.
We aim to go in most weather. We will email all ticket holders and post any changes on Instagram.
This tour extends the educational program of Fieldday outdoors... We look forward to exploring with you!
BSLA Summer Intern Cohort 2025
Happening again this summer!
Interns or Employers, if you have questions or need more details, please email Amanda Conner at admin@bslanow.org.
The goal of this program is shared learning and community building. Each Friday afternoon during the summer, you will be invited to join together in a shared educational experience – site visits to projects in construction, office tours, walks through new districts in the city, or conversations about subjects important to our work as landscape architects. There will be social time to get to know each other as well. Each week a different firm will host and guide, so, keep an eye out for weekly e-mails that inform you of the exact time and location of the meeting.
Scroll down for some pictures from last year!
BSLA EP Plant Walk
In person. FREE, but tickets are limited — please RSVP.
Join the Emerging Professionals for a fun morning as we brush up on our plant ID skills with a walk around the Arnold Arboretum. We're excited to be joined by Arnold Arboretum staff who will share extensive plant and history knowledge with the group.
New location! Please note that we will meet at the Bussey Street Gate.
All plant lovers welcome. If you're in the early stages of your design career, this is especially for you! Landscape designers & architects, students and recent grads; summer interns! Bring a friend + see you there.
Sign up here
We aim to go in most weather, but if it downpours, we’ll postpone. If that happens, we’ll email all ticket holders directly and announce on the BSLA Instagram.
Images below are from other BSLA EP Plant ID Walks
BSLA Summer Social on the Rose Kennedy Greenway
Join us outside!
In this much-loved annual event, join BSLA for a light-hearted, casual, in-person evening to celebrate the summer season in the landscape of the Dewey Square gardens at the Rose Kennedy Greenway.
Get your ticket today
Say hi to old friends and meet someone new. Whether you want to dance on the grass or enjoy quiet conversations in the gardens, we can't wait to see you.
This event is FREE for members & students, $10 for non-members. The first 75 registrants are guaranteed one free drink (21+) and food truck meal. Get your ticket today.
NOTE: we are in our favorite location — near Dewey Square. We’ll have tables in the Nightshift beer garden area, and spread out onto the lawn by the big mural.
Sponsorship opportunities available — contact the chapteroffice@bslanow.org. Sponsorship keeps this free/low cost for our landscape architecture community. Thank you!
Sponsors so far include… and you?
Photos from the BSLA Summer Social 2022. We are back to this same location.
We can’t wait to see you there!
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
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 2025 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
BSLA Summer Intern Cohort 2025
Happening again this summer!
Interns or Employers, if you have questions or need more details, please email Amanda Conner at admin@bslanow.org.
The goal of this program is shared learning and community building. Each Friday afternoon during the summer, you will be invited to join together in a shared educational experience – site visits to projects in construction, office tours, walks through new districts in the city, or conversations about subjects important to our work as landscape architects. There will be social time to get to know each other as well. Each week a different firm will host and guide, so, keep an eye out for weekly e-mails that inform you of the exact time and location of the meeting.
Scroll down for some pictures from last year!
BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force
Online.
Welcome to the new Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group will focus on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.
All are welcome.
BSLA DEI Committee Meeting
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.
Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023
Firm Leaders+Owners Roundtable
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.
BSLA Summer Intern Cohort 2025
Happening again this summer!
Interns or Employers, if you have questions or need more details, please email Amanda Conner at admin@bslanow.org.
The goal of this program is shared learning and community building. Each Friday afternoon during the summer, you will be invited to join together in a shared educational experience – site visits to projects in construction, office tours, walks through new districts in the city, or conversations about subjects important to our work as landscape architects. There will be social time to get to know each other as well. Each week a different firm will host and guide, so, keep an eye out for weekly e-mails that inform you of the exact time and location of the meeting.
Scroll down for some pictures from last year!
BSLA Summer Intern Cohort 2025
Happening again this summer!
Interns or Employers, if you have questions or need more details, please email Amanda Conner at admin@bslanow.org.
The goal of this program is shared learning and community building. Each Friday afternoon during the summer, you will be invited to join together in a shared educational experience – site visits to projects in construction, office tours, walks through new districts in the city, or conversations about subjects important to our work as landscape architects. There will be social time to get to know each other as well. Each week a different firm will host and guide, so, keep an eye out for weekly e-mails that inform you of the exact time and location of the meeting.
Scroll down for some pictures from last year!
BSLA Summer Intern Cohort 2025
Happening again this summer!
Interns or Employers, if you have questions or need more details, please email Amanda Conner at admin@bslanow.org.
The goal of this program is shared learning and community building. Each Friday afternoon during the summer, you will be invited to join together in a shared educational experience – site visits to projects in construction, office tours, walks through new districts in the city, or conversations about subjects important to our work as landscape architects. There will be social time to get to know each other as well. Each week a different firm will host and guide, so, keep an eye out for weekly e-mails that inform you of the exact time and location of the meeting.
Scroll down for some pictures from last year!
BSLA EP Open Meeting
Online.
Calling all Emerging Professionals...
If you're in the early stages of your design career, this is for you! Landscape designers & architects, students and recent grads. Architecture, planning, engineering, and other design industry colleagues too. All are welcome.
This open meeting takes place every 2 months from 6:30pm to 7:30pm on the second Thursday.
Do you want to receive the monthly calendar invite? email ep@bslanow.org
Join the meeting here
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
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 2025 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force
Online.
Welcome to the new Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group will focus on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.
All are welcome.
Firm Leaders+Owners Roundtable
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.
BSLA DEI Committee Meeting
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.
Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023
BSLA Public Sector Landscape Architects Zoom Meetup
Online. Free.
This is a quarterly Zoom meet up for landscape architects (or those trained as landscape architects), currently working in the public or nonprofit sector. This includes landscape architects/designers/planners working in city or town, state, or federal parks agencies as well as in other government departments or nonprofits — not in “regular” practice. We know that many of you face similar issues in your work. Many of you are The Only one of you who does what you do, too.
Our intent is to create space for this professional community to come together.
The topic of these meetings will shift depending on what you want to discuss. You do not need to be a BSLA or ASLA member to participate.
To attend the Zoom, click here.
If you’d like to be added to the calendar invite, email Gretchen.
Pictured: Jessie Waisnor and Alexandra Vecchio, landscape architects with the Town of Brookline, lead a BSLA Inside/Out tour of new & historic Brookline public spaces, October 2023
GDIRC Bi-Monthly Meeting
Online. Free. All welcome.
Join us for the Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children (GDIRC) bi-monthly meeting! This meeting is hosted via Zoom.
RSVP here to receive join information for this meeting. This information will be included in your confirmation email.
The Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children is led jointly by BSLA and BSA. To find out more, visit the GDIRC website here or visit the Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children Knowledge Community page on the BSA website here.
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
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 2025 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force
Online.
Welcome to the new Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group will focus on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.
All are welcome.
Firm Leaders+Owners Roundtable
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.
BSLA DEI Committee Meeting
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.
Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023
BSLA EP Open Meeting
Online.
Calling all Emerging Professionals...
If you're in the early stages of your design career, this is for you! Landscape designers & architects, students and recent grads. Architecture, planning, engineering, and other design industry colleagues too. All are welcome.
This open meeting takes place every 2 months from 6:30pm to 7:30pm on the second Thursday.
Do you want to receive the monthly calendar invite? email ep@bslanow.org
Join the meeting here
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
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 2025 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
BSLA DEI Committee Meeting
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.
Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023
BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force
Online.
Welcome to the new Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group will focus on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.
All are welcome.
Firm Leaders+Owners Roundtable
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.
GDIRC Bi-Monthly Meeting
Online. Free. All welcome.
Join us for the Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children (GDIRC) bi-monthly meeting! This meeting is hosted via Zoom.
RSVP here to receive join information for this meeting. This information will be included in your confirmation email.
The Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children is led jointly by BSLA and BSA. To find out more, visit the GDIRC website here or visit the Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children Knowledge Community page on the BSA website here.
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
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 2025 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
BSLA DEI Committee Meeting
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.
Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023
Firm Leaders+Owners Roundtable
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.
BSLA Public Sector Landscape Architects Zoom Meetup
Online. Free.
This is a quarterly Zoom meet up for landscape architects (or those trained as landscape architects), currently working in the public or nonprofit sector. This includes landscape architects/designers/planners working in city or town, state, or federal parks agencies as well as in other government departments or nonprofits — not in “regular” practice. We know that many of you face similar issues in your work. Many of you are The Only one of you who does what you do, too.
Our intent is to create space for this professional community to come together.
The topic of these meetings will shift depending on what you want to discuss. You do not need to be a BSLA or ASLA member to participate.
To attend the Zoom, click here.
If you’d like to be added to the calendar invite, email Gretchen.
Pictured: Jessie Waisnor and Alexandra Vecchio, landscape architects with the Town of Brookline, lead a BSLA Inside/Out tour of new & historic Brookline public spaces, October 2023
BSLA EP Open Meeting
Online.
Calling all Emerging Professionals...
If you're in the early stages of your design career, this is for you! Landscape designers & architects, students and recent grads. Architecture, planning, engineering, and other design industry colleagues too. All are welcome.
This open meeting takes place every 2 months from 6:30pm to 7:30pm on the second Thursday.
Do you want to receive the monthly calendar invite? email ep@bslanow.org
Join the meeting here
Firm Leaders+Owners Roundtable
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.
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
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 2025 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
BSLA DEI Committee Meeting
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.
Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023
BSLA Summer Intern Cohort 2025
Happening again this summer!
Interns or Employers, if you have questions or need more details, please email Amanda Conner at admin@bslanow.org.
The goal of this program is shared learning and community building. Each Friday afternoon during the summer, you will be invited to join together in a shared educational experience – site visits to projects in construction, office tours, walks through new districts in the city, or conversations about subjects important to our work as landscape architects. There will be social time to get to know each other as well. Each week a different firm will host and guide, so, keep an eye out for weekly e-mails that inform you of the exact time and location of the meeting.
Scroll down for some pictures from last year!
Western Mass BSLA Hike + Brew
In person. Free.
Landscape architects + designers, students + coworkers, family + friends:
Join us for a light-hearted summer hike, followed by food and drink. A Western Mass BSLA Summer Social!
The "agenda" is to enjoy this special landscape and have fun together. We'll meet at Mass Audubon's Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary in Easthampton at 11:30am and hike some of their 4 miles of trails.
Afterward, we'll head over to Abandoned Building Brewery -- around 1:30pm. The food truck Vegan Pizza Land will be available in the beer garden starting at 2:00pm.
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.
Tickets are FREE and are intended simply to make communication easier. We aim to go in most weather, though Saturdays this spring have been fairly soggy…….. We’ll email all ticket holders with any last minute reminders or changes. It is OK to just show up.
Van Berkum Nursery Tour
In Person. Free.
Join us for a fun and informative tour of Van Berkum Nursery to learn all about plants and gardening!
See Details and Sign Up Here.
BSLA Summer Intern Cohort 2025
Happening again this summer!
Interns or Employers, if you have questions or need more details, please email Amanda Conner at admin@bslanow.org.
The goal of this program is shared learning and community building. Each Friday afternoon during the summer, you will be invited to join together in a shared educational experience – site visits to projects in construction, office tours, walks through new districts in the city, or conversations about subjects important to our work as landscape architects. There will be social time to get to know each other as well. Each week a different firm will host and guide, so, keep an eye out for weekly e-mails that inform you of the exact time and location of the meeting.
Scroll down for some pictures from last year!
BSLA DEI Committee Meeting
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.
Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023
Firm Leaders+Owners Roundtable
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.
BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force
Online.
Welcome to the new Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group will focus on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.
All are welcome.
RIASLA - Guided Walk at Beaver River Preserve
Free. In Person.
Join The Nature Conservancy and the Rhode Island Chapter of ASLA for a guided walk through Beaver River Preserve in Richmond, RI! Open to all landscape architecture practitioners, this walk offers a unique opportunity to explore how the landscape responds after an old dam failure and the exciting resurgence of native flora and fauna that follows.
Participants will meet at the Hillsdale trailhead and follow a gentle 1.5–2.0 mile loop through old pastures, oak woods, and a pine grove. Along the way, we’ll explore the Beaver River, a small beaver pond, and a newly emerging wet meadow formed after the unexpected breaching of an old dam in late 2023. This walk provides a living case study in dam removal transformations, and is ideal for professionals interested in restoration, resilience, and natural systems in action.
This event is free but limited to 20 participants, so registration is required. Participants are invited to support ongoing conservation efforts with an optional donation to The Nature Conservancy upon registration.
Date: Saturday, June 21st
Time: 9am-11am
Location: Beaver River Preserve, 350 Hillsdale Road, Richmond RI
Register here.
If you’d like to support The Rhode Island Nature Conservancy, you can donate below.
Donate Now to Protect Nature | The Nature Conservancy
BSLA Summer Intern Cohort 2025
Happening again this summer!
Interns or Employers, if you have questions or need more details, please email Amanda Conner at admin@bslanow.org.
The goal of this program is shared learning and community building. Each Friday afternoon during the summer, you will be invited to join together in a shared educational experience – site visits to projects in construction, office tours, walks through new districts in the city, or conversations about subjects important to our work as landscape architects. There will be social time to get to know each other as well. Each week a different firm will host and guide, so, keep an eye out for weekly e-mails that inform you of the exact time and location of the meeting.
Scroll down for some pictures from last year!
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
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 2025 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
Landworks Studio’s Free Community Plant Swap
Free. In Person. Hosted by Landworks Studio
For more information and updates, see the Facebook event page here.
BSLA Summer Intern Cohort 2025
Happening again this summer!
Interns or Employers, if you have questions or need more details, please email Amanda Conner at admin@bslanow.org.
The goal of this program is shared learning and community building. Each Friday afternoon during the summer, you will be invited to join together in a shared educational experience – site visits to projects in construction, office tours, walks through new districts in the city, or conversations about subjects important to our work as landscape architects. There will be social time to get to know each other as well. Each week a different firm will host and guide, so, keep an eye out for weekly e-mails that inform you of the exact time and location of the meeting.
Scroll down for some pictures from last year!
Inside/Out: Nasami Farm
Join us outside!
In person. FREE. All welcome.
We are thrilled to invite you to our sixth year of Inside/Out — landscape architecture site tours across our region! Prioritizing issues of climate and health, equity and resilience, each tour discusses ideas and implementation as we explore these landscapes together.
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Our 2025 series continues at Nasami Farm…
Owned and operated by Native Plant Trust and set on 75 acres in western Massachusetts, Nasami Farm grows New England native plants from seed that are harvested sustainably from healthy, well-established wild populations throughout the region. The goal is ensuring genetic diversity to offset the clones sold by traditional nurseries and to build resilience into a landscape facing change.
This tour will allow participants to gain a deeper understanding of the constraints and opportunities associated with cultivating native plants for commercial use and to incorporate these lessons into the planting design and specification process. Read more…
This tour will be led by
Andrew Gutterman, RLA, ASLA, Principal, Sasaki
Uli Lorimer, Director of Horticulture, Native Plant Trust
Alexis Doshas, Nursery Manager, Nasami Farm
Details + Tickets
Tickets are FREE. All are welcome — colleagues and non-members too. Registration requested. This will take place in most weather, including rain. We will email all ticket holders directly with any changes and announce on eventbrite and Instagram.
BSLA EP Open Meeting
Online.
Calling all Emerging Professionals...
If you're in the early stages of your design career, this is for you! Landscape designers & architects, students and recent grads. Architecture, planning, engineering, and other design industry colleagues too. All are welcome.
This open meeting takes place every 2 months from 6:30pm to 7:30pm on the second Thursday.
Do you want to receive the monthly calendar invite? email ep@bslanow.org
Join the meeting here
Maine BSLA Section Meeting
You're invited to the next Maine BSLA Section Meeting
Maine landscape architects, designers, coworkers and collaborators: there's a lot happening in our state, landscape architecture-wise! From our third year of the summer design program to statewide climate action; from advocacy opportunities to PARKing Day to site visits; current business trends to whatever might be on your mind, join us in an informal Zoom discussion to brainstorm events, activities, and what we want to do this year. All are welcome.
Photo: September, 2024: Maine BSLA members/ volunteers Paige Lyons, Derek Kingsley Schubert, and the great guys from O'Donal's Nursery who brought plants for PARKing Day
Inside/Out China Trail Garden
Join us outside!
In person. FREE. All welcome.
We are thrilled to launch our sixth year of Inside/Out: landscape architecture site tours across our region! Prioritizing issues of climate and health, equity and resilience, each tour discusses ideas and implementation as we explore these landscapes together.
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Our 2025 series begins with the China Trail Garden...
The “China Trail Garden” is a beloved public garden at the Acton Arboretum, a 65-acre conservation area in the town center of Acton, Massachusetts. Like a museum or gallery, the garden is constantly "exhibiting" - in this case, living plants. Inspired by the “Chinese Path” at the Arnold Arboretum, the garden design provides a harmonious flow of planting, combining native species with non-invasive, low maintenance species of Asian origin, offering multi-seasonal interests….
Read more and register here.
Tickets are free! All are welcome — families and friends too. Registration appreciated. We aim to go in most weather. We will email all ticket holders directly with any changes and announce on eventbrite and Instagram.
BSLA Public Sector Landscape Architects Zoom Meetup
Online. Free.
This is a quarterly Zoom meet up for landscape architects (or those trained as landscape architects), currently working in the public or nonprofit sector. This includes landscape architects/designers/planners working in city or town, state, or federal parks agencies as well as in other government departments or nonprofits — not in “regular” practice. We know that many of you face similar issues in your work. Many of you are The Only one of you who does what you do, too.
Our intent is to create space for this professional community to come together.
The topic of these meetings will shift depending on what you want to discuss. You do not need to be a BSLA or ASLA member to participate.
To attend the Zoom, click here.
If you’d like to be added to the calendar invite, email Gretchen.
Pictured: Jessie Waisnor and Alexandra Vecchio, landscape architects with the Town of Brookline, lead a BSLA Inside/Out tour of new & historic Brookline public spaces, October 2023
2025 Design Awards Announcement + Celebration
We invite all in our landscape architecture community to join us for an evening of celebration and community.
Get your tickets here.
In person, at Northeastern University in Boston, immediately following Fieldday.
starting at 5:00pm
The evening will begin with a RECEPTION. Say hello to old friends and meet someone new. There is so much great work happening, and so many extraordinary people helping to make our outdoor spaces healthier, more resilient, and full of joy. Join us to connect and celebrate and just enjoy each other's company.
ANNOUNCING the 2025 BSLA Design Awards! Once again, we are delighted to reveal this year's design award winners in an in-person, spring party. The BSLA Design Awards Celebration will immediately follow Fieldday for a festive and fitting end to our Friday.
Including a slideshow of recognized projects and presentation of award certificates.
Students, emerging professionals, firm leaders, and our larger landscape architecture community -- builders, clients, colleagues and friends, members + non-members, ALL ARE WELCOME.
Each ticket includes drinks (21+) and food.
NOTE -- the BSLA Design Awards celebration is separate from Fieldday, while continuing that day's great energy (and great venue). It IS possible to purchase ONLY Design Awards celebration tickets, or to add Design Awards tickets to an existing conference ticket order. And yes, it's definitely encouraged to invite team members, collaborators, clients, family, and friends!
We strive to make the event as accessible as possible. Is ticket price a barrier? Please, be in touch. Contact chapteroffice@bslanow.org.
THANK YOU sponsors!
Their support enables us to offer this event at a lower cost, and helps us support our landscape architecture community.
Interested in sponsorship? Contact chapteroffice@BSLAnow.org.
Fieldday 2025: New England's Conference on Landscape Architecture
Join us for Fieldday 2025!
On Friday, May 23, the New England landscape architecture community will gather at Northeastern University in Boston for an inspiring day of education, connection, and celebration.
NEW IN 2025:
BSLA’s next Fieldbook will be released at Fieldday.
The conference program will feature 12 workshops from industry leaders.
BSLA Design Awards Celebration will immediately follow Fieldday for a festive and fitting end to our Friday.
See more details here.
Registration is live! Direct link to tickets below. For group discount email conference@bslanow.org
Fieldday is created collaboratively by the ASLA Chapters of New England.
Scroll down for some pictures from Fieldday 2024. Photography by Anthony Crisafulli
BSLA DEI Committee Meeting
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.
Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023
Firm Leaders+Owners Roundtable
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.
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
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 2025 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
Evenings with Experts: The Wondrous World of Fireflies
Evenings with Experts
The Wondrous World of Fireflies
Sara Lewis, Author, Silent Sparks
May 14 | 7:00 - 8:30pm
Where: IN PERSON at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, 11 French Drive, Boylston, MA & ONLINE via Zoom.
Fee: Free and open to all.
Fireflies are surely among our greatest ambassadors for Earth’s natural magic. For centuries their ethereal beauty has sparked wonder and inspired poets, artists, and children of all ages. Yet they hold so many mysteries! Sara Lewis is a biologist who has studied fireflies for the past 30 years, traveling worldwide in her research and advocacy work. Together, we’ll explore the science behind their bright lights and illuminate their remarkable lifestyles. Human activities have put fireflies at risk, but we’ll learn how we can all help protect these dazzling creatures.
Sara Lewis is a biologist and professor emerita at Tufts University who has spent the past thirty years studying firefly behavior, ecology, and evolution. Prof. Lewis is the author of Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies. She has given a TED talk and her work has been featured in Scientific American, Undark, and National Wildlife. Currently, she coordinates global firefly conservation efforts as co-chair of the IUCN Firefly Specialist Group.
Register (ZOOM ONLY)
GDIRC Bi-Monthly Meeting
Online. Free. All welcome.
Join us for the Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children (GDIRC) bi-monthly meeting! This meeting is hosted via Zoom.
RSVP here to receive join information for this meeting. This information will be included in your confirmation email.
The Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children is led jointly by BSLA and BSA. To find out more, visit the GDIRC website here or visit the Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children Knowledge Community page on the BSA website here.
Healthy Soil through Maximum Biodiversity Workshop Series
Free. In Person.
Landscape Interactions and the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA/Mass) are offering a series of free hands-on workshops this season to improve soil health, partnering with farmers and community gardeners across Western Massachusetts to implement scalable, replicable designs that incorporate biodiverse, native pollinator-supporting vegetation.
Events:
Soil Analysis, Carbon Sampling and Designing for Resilience – Red Fire Farm, Montague
Saturday, April 19, 2025 | 3:00pm – 5:30pmSoil Analysis, Carbon Sampling and Designing for Resilience – NOFA/Mass Food Access, Tapley Court Apartments
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 10:00am – 1:00pmSoil Analysis, Carbon Sampling and Designing for Resilience – Nuestras Raíces, La Finca (The Farm)
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 2:30pm – 5:00pmSoil Analysis, Carbon Sampling and Planting for Resilience – Indian Line Farm
Friday May 9 2025 | 10:00am – 1:00pm
The full workshop schedule and registration information is available on NOFA/Mass’s website.
Soak It Up: Combating Climate Change with Landscape Architecture
The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) and PlayCore proudly announce a free global summit, Soak it Up: Combating Climate Change with Landscape Architecture.
The “sponge cities” concept for addressing urban flooding, pioneered by Beijing-based landscape architect Kongjian Yu, most recent winner of the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, inspires this global event that will address pressing environmental and social challenges, including biodiversity loss, climate change, and social inequities.
Soak It Up features five pre-recorded presentations and a live 90-minute panel discussion and Q&A. Kongjian Yu will be joined by international landscape architecture leaders Herbert Dreiseitl (Germany), Jasper Hugtenburg (Netherlands), Mia Lehrer (United States), and Kotchakorn Voraakhom (Thailand) to explore the critical role of landscape architecture in designing water infrastructure to harmonize people and nature.
Registration is now open and the first three videos will go live on March 17, followed by the remaining two videos on April 14. The capstone live webinar will take place on May 7 at 8pm ET.
Register here.
Native Plant Trust: Join the Movement: 125th Anniversary Symposium
Date/time details: Saturday, May 3, 2025, 9 AM - 1 PM
Location: Zoom
Fee: Early bird price (until April 1st): $100; Regular price: $125
Join the Movement: 125th Anniversary Symposium
Build community with other new and experienced gardeners, and join the movement to increase the beauty and resiliency of New England and the planet, one native plant at a time.
Do you want to learn more about why native plants matter, and gain practical tips for incorporating them into your life? Join the Movement is for first- and long-time gardeners, lovers of the natural world, environmental advocates, and curious learners who want to explore both why and how to work with native plants. Whatever the size of your space or your experience with gardening, our panelists will offer their expert perspectives on how to select plants, work with the space you have, and maintain your plantings across all four seasons.
Speakers
Uli Lorimer
Uli Lorimer is the director of Horticulture at Native Plant Trust and the Boston Globe’s "Ask the Gardener" columnist. Uli has worked with native plants in public gardens for over twenty years, with positions at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Wave Hill Garden, and the US National Arboretum. He is the author of The Northeast Native Plant Primer.
Edwina von Gal
A leading voice in sustainable gardening and landscape design, Edwina von Gal founded the Perfect Earth Project in 2013 to promote nature-based, toxic-free land care for the health of people, their pets, and the planet. As principal of her eponymous landscape design firm since 1984, Edwina has created landscapes with a focus on simplicity, sustainability, and beauty for private and public clients around the world. She is a member of Native Plant Trust’s Council.
Trevor Smith
Trevor Smith is a regenerative landscape designer, Design and Education Manager at Weston Nurseries, and longtime instructor for Native Plant Trust. A past President of the Ecological Landscape Alliance and current Trustee, he specializes in green stormwater infrastructure, including permeable pavers and rain gardens. Trevor recently collaborated with the Social Impact Collective to install thirty green roof bus shelters in Boston.
Dan Jaffe Wilder
Dan Jaffe Wilder is an ecologist, horticulturist, and botanist with over 15 years’ experience working with native plants and their associated ecology. Dan is currently the Director of Applied Ecology for the Norcross Wildlife Foundation. He published Native Plants for New England Gardens in 2018.
Register Here
Photo: Wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa), Uli Lorimer © Native Plant Trust
Landscape Architecture "Industry Night"
In Person.
Landscape Architecture "Industry Night" (afternoon) @ the Brookline Teen Center
This is a special event to include a brief panel with an LA or two and someone from the Boston Architectural College, followed by a quick walk to look at a landscape nearby, guided by the eyes of a landscape architect.
Interested in getting involved? Sign up here or email chapteroffice@bslanow.org
Healthy Soil through Maximum Biodiversity Workshop Series
Free. In Person.
Landscape Interactions and the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA/Mass) are offering a series of free hands-on workshops this season to improve soil health, partnering with farmers and community gardeners across Western Massachusetts to implement scalable, replicable designs that incorporate biodiverse, native pollinator-supporting vegetation.
Events:
Soil Analysis, Carbon Sampling and Designing for Resilience – Red Fire Farm, Montague
Saturday, April 19, 2025 | 3:00pm – 5:30pmSoil Analysis, Carbon Sampling and Designing for Resilience – NOFA/Mass Food Access, Tapley Court Apartments
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 10:00am – 1:00pmSoil Analysis, Carbon Sampling and Designing for Resilience – Nuestras Raíces, La Finca (The Farm)
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 2:30pm – 5:00pmSoil Analysis, Carbon Sampling and Planting for Resilience – Indian Line Farm
Friday May 9 2025 | 10:00am – 1:00pm
The full workshop schedule and registration information is available on NOFA/Mass’s website.
"Rise Up Boston" at the Museum of Science
In Person.
Location: Museum of Science, 1 Science Park Boston, MA 02114
Rise Up Boston: A Climate Event
Saturday | April 26, 2025
This is a one day special event, coincidentally on Olmsted's birthday! We'll offer some hands on activities and information about Landscape Architecture! Join us! More on the day here: https://www.mos.org/events/rise-up
To join us with free admission, go to mos.org and add exhibit hall tickets to your cart. Make sure to select the date of April 26. Once you get to checkout, apply the Promo Code: RiseUp25
