Community members use skills they learned in workshops to build a productive infiltration garden for food security and water filtration. Image courtesy Traction team members.
In 2016, as a student at the University of Washington, Coco Alarcón won the ASLA Student Residential Design Award of Excellence for his project to improve public health by creating food gardens in a soggy, stressed neighborhood in Iquitos, Peru. Continue reading Where Least Matters Most→
In a time of great upheaval for the United States, it is hard to keep track of the many risks to our national landscapes. Continue reading Not Gone. Yet.→
An obsession with epiphytes leads to an ASLA Student Award.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA
Courtesy Brandon Cornejo, Student ASLA.
Brandon Cornejo, Student ASLA, wants to use epiphytes—plants that grow on other plants or materials and derive their nutrients from the air—to green the world. Continue reading Living on Air→
With new plant varieties hitting the market each year, someone has to make sure everyone plays by the rules.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA
The people behind Plant Watch want the name alone to strike fear into anyone illegally propagating plants that are under patent protection. Continue reading Plant Sheriff→