Office Space

• Desk Rental/Sublease

Volunteer Opportunity

• Allston Village Main Streets Seeks Design Committee Members

Events of Interest

• Creating Your Own Oasis - 06/27/09
• Conway School of Landscape Design:
  Summer Landscape Design Institute Workshop - 07/25/09
• 5th Annual NOFA Organic Lawn & Turf Course - 8/7/09, 8/18/09 and 8/20/09
• ASLA 2009 Annual Meeting & EXPO - 9/18/09

Watch your email for the BSLA Strategic Planning Survey 2009. Your responses will be used to ascertain the most effective ways of resourcing and equipping our membership in ways beneficial and relevant to the BSLA design community. We ask you to please complete this two-minute survey when it arrives in your inbox. Your time is greatly appreciated.

Welcome New Members

• Sarah Carrier, Associate ASLA, Cambridge, MA
• Patrick Olstad, ASLA, Landworks, Middlebury, VT
• Kyung Eui Park, Associate ASLA, Cambridge, MA
• Jon Pate, ASLA, Carol R Johnson Associates, Boston, MA
• Mikaela Urgo, Associate ASLA, Brookline, MA

Congratulations to Carol R. Johnson, FASLA
June 4, 2009 - The Boston Architectural College is very pleased to celebrate Carol Johnson FASLA, who received the Doctor of Design Education, Honoris Causa, at our Commencement. Please join the BAC in thanking her for her many contributions to this College and to the profession.

Read the Press Release.

Connecticut College Arboretum has published its Summer 2009 Program calendar. Visit their website for more details on their offerings.

June 27, 2009
Creating Your Own Oasis

ADED 09065:Tuesday, June 23, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
ADED 09066: Saturday, June 27, 1:00 – 3:00 pm

To be held at Tower Hill Botanical Garden, Boylston, MA
Members $12, Non-members $15 per session

How do you create your own peaceful oasis? Where do you begin? In this informal and interactive class we will review a variety of techniques that can aid in improving the landscape around your home by following a step-by-step process to develop and execute proven design concepts for your property. We will set basic objectives, a budget, and outline the scope of work using creative thinking to achieve exceptional results. Attendees are encouraged to bring photos of their property for case study examples.

Instructor, Greg Bilowz of Bilowz Associates, Inc., began his career with two Associate Degrees from The Stockbridge School of Agriculture and a Bachelors Degree in Environmental Design from its sister school, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Greg’s love for travel and his desire to study historical gardens throughout the world led him to the University of Sheffield, England where he received a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture. He has lectured for numerous associations on horticulture, design techniques and gardens of the world. He received the 2002 BSLA Design Merit award.

For questions and to RSVP, contact ann@bilowzassociates.com

July 25-26, 2009
Conway School of Landscape Design:
Summer Landscape Design Institute Workshop

This intensive two-day workshop will explore how to integrate historic resources into our modern lives and will include a visit to and design exploration of the landscape of a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Usonian home. The workshop will also explore how to adapt historic places for modern living. Click here to learn more.

August 7, 18, and 20, 2009
5th Annual NOFA Organic Lawn & Turf Course

The course will also be held Tuesday, August 18 at Duke Farms in Hillsborough, NJ and Thursday, August 20 at Manchester Community College in Manchester, CT.

This one-day, intensive course will provide state-of-the-art information for managing lawns and turf organically and is geared toward land care professionals, groundskeepers and municipalities who are responsible for the establishment and care of grass, as well as anyone interested in learning organic methods. The course will be taught by NOFA Accredited Organic Land Care Professional Donald Bishop of Gardens Are Inc. in Marlborough, MA, CT NOFA Executive Director Bill Duesing of Solar Farm Education in Oxford, CT, nationally renowned organic turfgrass educator Chip Osborne of Osborne Organics in Marblehead, MA, and entomological scientist Dr. Kimberly Stoner of the CT Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven, CT.

NEW THIS YEAR! The course will include a special section on Water Management and Conservation led by noted engineer and water conservation expert Amy Vickers, president of Amy Vickers & Associates Inc. of Amherst, MA. (In NJ and CT this section will be taught by NOFA Accredited Organic Land Care Professional Frank Koll of Arlington, MA). There will also be plenty of time for Q&A and networking. Lunch is provided.

All course participants will receive a copy of the NOFA Organic Lawn & Turf Handbook: Beautiful Grass Naturally, which serves as the course manual. This 100-page comprehensive, practical and easy-to-use reference manual was written and edited by scientists and experts in the field of organic lawn and turf care, this book covers what landscapers, landscape designers, municipal staff and homeowners need to know to grow natural and organic lawns. Topics include: Why Organic? Site Analysis, Soil Health, Cultural Practices, Weeds, Insects, Diseases, Obtaining Materials and Equipment, Running a Business, Client Relations and much more. The NOFA Organic Lawn & Turf Course costs $150 for the first person from a firm/town and $125 each additional person. Sat/Sun NOFA Summer Conference registrants receive a $30 discount on the combined registration fees. For more information or to register, visit www.organiclandcare.net or www.nofasummerconference.org.

If you have any questions, please contact Kathy Litchfield, NOFA/Mass OLC Program Coordinator (413-773-3830, kathy@nofamass.org).

September 18-21, 2009
ASLA 2009 Annual Meeting & EXPOThe annual meeting and EXPO will be held September 18-21 in Chicago and we are expecting another record-breaking attendance. The 2009 meeting theme will be Beyond Sustainability: Regenerating Places and People. Visit www.ASLA.org for event details.

Office Space

Desk Rental/Sublease Opportunity in Channel Center - Boston
Active Urban Design and Planning firm seeks a small Landscape Architecture or similar design firm (1 - 4 people) to share its light filled, loft like space at Channel Center in Boston's Fort Point Channel district. Located on A Street, it's a great location with easy access to South Station. Space includes desks, filing cabinets, shared use of two conference rooms, kitchenette use, phone and data lines and access to printers and plotters. Email Valerie Conyngham at vconyngham@cecilgroup.com for more information or to set up a time to tour the space.

Volunteer Opportunity

Allston Village Main Streets Seeks Design Committee Members
Allston Village Main Streets (AVSM) is looking for design professionals and others interested in design to sit on its volunteer Design Committee. The Design Committee works to improve the physical appearance of the district. AVMS runs a Facade Improvement Program, which awards design assistance and matching grants. The committee also focuses on public improvements, such as landscaping, street furniture, banners, public art and cleanliness, and on historic preservation efforts. The committee sponsors occasional clean-ups and ongoing graffiti-removal. If you are interested in volunteering call/write Executive Director Katie Reed at mainstreets@allstonvillage.com or 617-254-7564.

Sponsor an Issue of the Monthly BSLA EBulletin
Sign up to sponsor an issue of the monthly BSLA EBulletin and have your ad prominently displayed here - with a link to your website ($175 per issue). For more details...

Only 3 sponsor placements per issue. Contact Christy Griffith, BSLA Chapter Office - Graphics and Web, griffith@BSLAweb.org, 802-438-9858.

Thank you to the ASLA's "50 by 2010" Licensure Campaign contributors -

• Reed|Hilderbrand
• Bartsch & Radner Design, Inc.
• Sasaki Associates, Inc.
• Hugh J. Collins, Jr. Landscape Designer, Inc.
• Halvorson Design Partnership
• Bellalta 3 Design
• Stantec Planning and Landscape Architecture, P.C.
• Joseph Hudak, L.A
• Weston and Sampson
• Michael Boucher Landscape Architecture
• Dodson Associates
• Hines Wasser & Associates, LLC
• HNTB Corporation
• Pressley Associates, Inc.
• Terrence J. DeWan and Associates
• AMES A/E
• Steven W. Ribble, RLA, ASLA
• Crosby Schlessinger Smallridge
• Robert LaRoche
• SMRT, Inc.
• Mohr & Seredin Landscape Architects, Inc.
• WBRC Architects / Engineers Inc.
• Lawrence Johannesman
• Mitchell & Associates
• Mercer Bonney, RLA
• Shadley Associates, P.C.
• Clyde & Patricia Walton
• Beals and Thomas, Inc.

BSLA appreciates their commitment to this cause.

• Bartsch & Radner Design, Inc.
• Stantec Planning and Landscape Architecture, P.C. Consulting
• Halvorson Design Partnership
• Reed | Hilderbrand
• Shadley Associates, P.C.
• Copley Wolff Design Group, Inc.
• Keith LeBlanc Landscape Architecture, Inc.
• Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc.
• Elliott Brundage Landscape Design