RESTORING ROOTS COOPERATIVE
12 Parley Vale, Boston, MA 02130 Directions
Since 2014
Water Features, Raised Beds and Container Gardens, Design and Consulting, Installation (Annuals and Perennials, Soil Testing, Hardscaping, Cold Frames, Fire Pits and More), Yard Farming, Ecosystem Restoration, Compost/Rain Harvesting/Irrigation Systems, Education & Maintenance
Restoring Roots Cooperative specializes in the design of client-tailored bio-intensive edible landscapes and outdoor living spaces. They are practitioners of permaculture, a philosophy of land management that focuses on the conservation of natural resources and mimicks nature's networks for diverse, productive, and resilient ecologies. The company specializes in gardens that require minimal maintenance and balance intensive food production with ecological and aesthetic considerations. Restoring Roots creates beautiful, peaceful, multi-purpose, food-producing landscapes, from residential yards and small businesses to urban farms and public libraries. Their approach focuses on the goals and needs of their clients while simultaneously being thoughtful and respectful of the environment.
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OFFSHOOTS INC
547 Rutherford Avenue, Boston, MA 02129 Directions
Since 2006
Municipal Park Design and Planning, Green Infrastructure, Streetscape and Residential Garden Design, Landscape Architecture, Multi-Family and Commercial Landscapes, Phytotechnology and Phytoremediation, Horticulture, Productive Landscaping Installation & Landscapes for Non- Profits
Offshoots, Inc is a hybrid practice offering landscape architecture, planning, phytoremediation design, and productive landscape installation services. The company takes on projects large and small, and complete design services, or landscape installation or both. For their installation projects, they pursue organic methods and source as many locally grown plants as possible, creating demand within the nursery industry for more sustainably produced plant materials that support their local economy. They are not a traditional design-build practice, but an experimental hybrid practice, striving to serve their clients with the most suitable scope of services for the project at hand. Offshoots, Inc is creating demand within the nursery industry for more sustainably produced plant materials that support the local economy.
Merit Award, Analysis and Planning, Boston Society of Landscape Architects, Honor Award, Communications, American Society of Landscape Architects
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URBGARDENS
4 Rutland Square, Boston, MA 02118 Directions
Since 2012
Hardscaping, Chain Link Fence, Artificial Grass and Drip Irrigation Installation, Custom Water Features, Garden Design, Tree Planting, Demolition, Deck Building, Dry Wells, Brick Masonry, Brick Repair, Custom Fire Pits, Gazebo Design and Construction, Gate Installation & Trellis Construction
Urbgardens is a Boston landscape design-build firm that specializes in creating unique, personal, and functional outdoor spaces. The company design, build and maintain urban gardens and landscapes for both residential and commercial clients. Their goal is to design an urban greenspace that speaks directly to you. They believe that a successful outdoor space is designed to meet all your needs. Whether you’ve designed it yourself, collaborated with them, or let them take the creative reigns, they want to create that space for you. The company offers year-round maintenance services.