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!

In person. Hosted at Woodhull, 93 High Street, Portland, Maine.

Maine landscape architects, architects, designers, builders, and friends: join us for a social evening to celebrate the summer season!

The Portland Society for Architecture and the BSLA Maine Section invite you to join faculty, students and the Portland area design community to celebrate the third year of our introductory summer program. “The Complete City: Spatial Design.” Hosted in the beautiful Portland offices of Woodhull.

You don't want to miss this Portland Summer Social! All are welcome, space is limited. Food & drink will be served.

Get your ticket today!

Generously sponsored by Maglin Site Furniture. Thank you, Amelie and Maglin!

Photos are a mix from the last two summer socials, July 2023 + 2024, which were hosted at the Portland offices of Knickerbocker + Thorton Tomasetti.

Thank you

This is the first introduction to landscape architecture & architecture program in northern New England, and it’s unique nationally in the way that it celebrates and connects with the larger design community. It’s a collaborative project in every way, and relies on the support of many. Thank you, Portland design community!

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 in East Boston...

We will explore issues of access and equity; environmental change and community play.

RSVP here

The tour begins in the new, transformative playing fields for Boston Scores. Synthetic turf is a highly contested subject -- especially when considering climate resiliency and environmental impact -- but done correctly with green principles, it provides equitable, inclusive, wellness access to diverse, minority groups in urban communities where there is lack of green open and accessible space.

If you were inspired by the related Lightning Talk at Fieldday, you'll love exploring this project firsthand! (Check out David Warners's 5 minute talk, starting at X:X in this video.) Join us for a discussion with the landscape architects, civil engineers, and community leaders behind this project as we see the playing fields in action.

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After Boston Scores, we'll walk along the Greenway to the Wood Island overlook and the Neptune Road Airport Edge Buffer...

Across the Blue Line MBTA tracks from the fields sit Constitution Beach and the Mary Ellen Welch Greenway... Named after the legendary environmental justice advocate, the Greenway offers access and connection through the neighborhood and along the water's edge, and soon will connect Boston Harbor to Belle Isle Marsh, Revere Beach, and the North Shore.

Along the Greenway, we'll see the remnants of the former Wood Island Park -- an Olmsted park demolished a half century ago for Logan Airport expansion; we'll see recent work to mitigate that airport impact, and we'll hear about current Greenway renovation plans, designed to help protect this neighborhood from the impacts of future flooding.

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!

Images: Boston Scores as a field for equity (courtesy Warner Larson, now IMEG);

above, Wood Island Overlook on the Greenway Connector (photo by Alex MacLean, courtesy Brown Richardson + Rowe)

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!

Online. Free.

Registration is open for the 2025 Northeast Miniforest Summit: 

• Thursday, July 24, 2025, 12:00 pm - 4:30 pm ET | Virtual (Zoom)

• Friday, July 25, 2025, 9:00 am - 2:00 pm ET | Virtual (Zoom) 

Featuring more than a dozen speakers across two virtual half-days and an in-person bus tour, the 2025 Northeast Miniforest Summit brings together practitioners, researchers, and leaders from diverse fields—including landscape architects, scientists, and community organizers—to unpack the method from root to canopy.

Register Here

More information and registration details about this event can be found at https://miniforests.bio4climate.org/ or in this PDF. Additional questions? Please email miniforests@bio4climate.org. 

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 new Zoom link for 2025

In person. Offering 1.0 LACES HSW.

Welcome to the Farm

Join us at the Landscape Creations barn for a summer evening in coastal Rhode Island. This relaxed, cocktail-style Open Studio invites New England ASLA members & the BSLA community to discuss construction and proactive landscape maintenance services and to tour Landcape Creations' operations at the farm. Building on themes introduced at FIELDDAY, we’ll explore the ongoing care of designed landscapes, drawing on insights from Landscape Creations’ Estate Care team. They will share what they’ve learned from stewarding built landscapes through changing field conditions, along with practical tips for managing client and budget expectations.

Landscape Management: Lessons from the Field
Landscapes are evolving ecosystems where shade shifts over time, plant health fluctuates, and environmental stressors demand constant adaptation. This Open Studios event shares insights from the Landscape Creations Estate Care team on how to steward these complex living environments. More than maintenance—which implies preserving the status quo—Estate Care is the proactive management required to help landscapes grow, thrive, and fulfill their design intent. We’ll share field-tested observations on what holds up, what “lower maintenance” landscapes actually look like, and how to set realistic client expectations—addressing questions like: What does a sound maintenance program include? What’s a reasonable annual investment? And, how can we collaborate effectively to support long-term success? Bring your questions — there will be lots of time for Q&A.

Please join us for an evening of presentation, discussion, and reception!

RSVP here

About Landscape Creations

Landscape Creations is an award-winning residential landscape contractor serving New England for 25 years. Headquartered in Saunderstown, Rhode Island, we specialize in highly complex projects involving multiple parties and stakeholders. We are accustomed to collaborating with landscape architects, general contractors, engineers, and owners’ representatives, always fueled by our passion to create exceptional spaces that bring people together.  We create beautiful landscapes that help our clients, partners, and team flourish. Our landscapes inspire family togetherness, connection with nature, and meaningful work.

Landscape Creations is pleased to be a sponsor of FIELDDAY: New England's Conference on Landscape Architecture.

Online. Free.

Registration is open for the 2025 Northeast Miniforest Summit: 

• Thursday, July 24, 2025, 12:00 pm - 4:30 pm ET | Virtual (Zoom)

• Friday, July 25, 2025, 9:00 am - 2:00 pm ET | Virtual (Zoom) 

Featuring more than a dozen speakers across two virtual half-days and an in-person bus tour, the 2025 Northeast Miniforest Summit brings together practitioners, researchers, and leaders from diverse fields—including landscape architects, scientists, and community organizers—to unpack the method from root to canopy.

Register Here

More information and registration details about this event can be found at https://miniforests.bio4climate.org/ or in this PDF. Additional questions? Please email miniforests@bio4climate.org. 

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.

Zoom link here

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.

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!

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!

Join us outside!

In this much-loved annual event, join BSLA for a light-hearted, casual evening to celebrate the summer season in the landscape of the Rose Kennedy Greenway.

New this year: We’re adding a Plant Walk, led by Brian Gibbons, director of horticulture for the Greenway Conservancy.

SCHEDULE

4pm — Plant Walk (limited to 25)

5pm - 8pm - Social (the more the merrier)

Get your tickets today

Say hi to old friends and meet someone new. Whether you want to dance on the plaza or enjoy quiet conversations in the grass, we can't wait to see you.

This event is FREE for members & students, $10 for non-members. If you register by Monday morning July 14, we will give you one free drink (21+) and food truck meal. RSVP here.

NOTE: we are in our favorite location — near Dewey Square. We’ll have tables in the Night Shift beer garden area, and spread out onto the lawn by the big mural. The plant walk starts & ends at Night Shift, too.

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?

Please help us say THANK YOU to these sponsors for making this possible!

Photos from the BSLA Summer Social 2022. We are back to this same location.

We can’t wait to see you there —

This garden needs you!

Landscape architects + designers + students + friends:

Please join us in helping the middle and high school students of Four Rivers Charter Public School rebuild their school garden. This is a student-led project, and they have a vision for a community garden that helps both people and pollinators. They need extra hands to assist in making it real. Can you help?

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Friday, July 11 | Demolition

1pm -3:30pm

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Saturday, July 12 | Reconstruction

12pm - 4pm

Location: Four Rivers Charter Public School, 248 Colrain Road, Greenfield, MA.

If you own any of these, the students would appreciate you bringing them for yourself (or to share): 

- wheelbarrows

- shovels 

- garden rakes (not leaf rakes)

- hand tools (eg: trowels, shovels)

This project is being organized by Four Rivers students with help from BSLA member / landscape architect Jeffrey Warren. Please email Jeff with any questions or to let him know that you'll be there. It is also OK to just show up!

All are welcome + appreciated.

Join us in helping students as we share the power of plants and pollinators and the love of landscape architecture.

Thank you!

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

This garden needs you!

Landscape architects + designers + students + friends:

Please join us in helping the middle and high school students of Four Rivers Charter Public School rebuild their school garden. This is a student-led project, and they have a vision for a community garden that helps both people and pollinators. They need extra hands to assist in making it real. Can you help?

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Friday, July 11 | Demolition

1pm -3:30pm

+

Saturday, July 12 | Reconstruction

12pm - 4pm

Location: Four Rivers Charter Public School, 248 Colrain Road, Greenfield, MA.

If you own any of these, the students would appreciate you bringing them for yourself (or to share): 

- wheelbarrows

- shovels 

- garden rakes (not leaf rakes)

- hand tools (eg: trowels, shovels)

This project is being organized by Four Rivers students with help from BSLA member / landscape architect Jeffrey Warren. Please email Jeff with any questions or to let him know that you'll be there. It is also OK to just show up!

All are welcome + appreciated.

Join us in helping students as we share the power of plants and pollinators and the love of landscape architecture.

Thank you!

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!

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!

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 new Zoom link for 2025

Online.

Zoom link here

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.

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

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!

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!

Free. In Person. Hosted by Landworks Studio

For more information and updates, see the Facebook event page here.