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Three Seasons Garden Store: A local landscaping business expands to retail | The Harvard Press | Features | Feature Articles
20 years immediately after Mike Hood founded 3 Seasons Landscaping with his brother, Tim, he realized it was earlier time to locate new headquarters for an at any time-expanding landscape enterprise and to comprehend his lengthy-expression system of opening a retail shop. A 2½-acre piece of the previous Callahan house, 264 Ayer Street, introduced itself in 2020 as the best resolution, he mentioned. And with Tim getting moved out of state, Mike brought an additional brother, Rob, on board to manage 3 Seasons Backyard garden Keep and the landscaping organization.
The commercially zoned residence took for a longer period to find than he’d have chosen, Mike mentioned, but trying to keep the organization in Harvard was a priority, provided his family’s ties to the city and the loyalty he reported his Harvard customers have regularly shown.
Mike Hood (still left) and Rob Hood stand in entrance of a Blackstone Candle screen at Three Seasons Garden Shop. (Photograph by Thomas Kilian)
Mike, Rob, and their four siblings all grew up on Aged Mill Highway immediately after their mom and dad moved there 47 several years ago. Their father, Bob Hood, sent the mail in town for 25 decades, and their maternal grandmother, Rita Lombardi, was celebrated at the 2018 City Assembly as the town’s oldest resident. She died at household in 2021 at the age of 102.
Looking again and reflecting on her sons’ achievements, Peggy Hood advised the Press she wasn’t astonished when her outside-loving sons Mike and Tim took up landscaping as a career. All through their youth, she’d line up outside assignments for them at their Grandfather Lombardi’s spot in Clinton. He was an engineer by occupation, but in retirement targeted on meticulous lawn and stone get the job done. “He was exacting and taught them a ton,” she claimed. To this working day, she reported, “Mike prefers to be out and about.”
Rob, also, is well suited to his existing job in the Three Seasons business, controlling the workplace and inventory at the keep and creating up proposals for landscaping customers. He “always preferred books and is extremely clever … they are a very good match for the enterprise,” Peggy mentioned.
The retail enterprise started with the sale of mums on the store’s garden in 2020, though the store itself opened in the spring of 2021—after the previous storage building had been renovated. It was paneled in knotty pine milled at a Hubbardston lumber mill, and the partitions were being adorned with antique farm implements that the Hoods discovered in an old barn on the residence. Among 2021 and 2022, stock at the shop steadily enhanced. Currently, the shop carries backyard tools of all varieties flower pots grass seed, backyard garden soil, and soil amendments and gift objects, which include Blackstone candles and diminutive, handmade reward bags. Seasonal things these as bushes and flowering crops mulch, pumpkins, and hay bales and Xmas trees, wreaths, and arrangements make appearances throughout the months the keep is open, which are April 1 by way of Christmas.
Reflecting on the previous yr, Mike says he has experienced the most entertaining selling Xmas trees, and if he had to opt for a preferred solution, he’d go with the Jonathan Environmentally friendly grass seed, which he swears by. The opening future 12 months of a further backyard garden middle on Ayer Road—just as the retailer gains steam—has the two Rob and Mike established to retain improving 3 Seasons. Up coming year, for instance, Mike designs to develop the inventory to include wild chook supplies, perennials, seeds, organic double-ground mulch, stone, and substantial-conclusion outside hearth units from Montana Fireplace Pits.
Op-Ed: A Unique Moment for Landscape Architects | Features

I recently joined American Modern society of Landscape Architects President Eugenia Martin, FASLA, and
hundreds of other world wide leaders in landscape architecture in
Gwangju, South Korea, at the Worldwide Federation of Landscape
Architects Entire world Council Assembly. IFLA represents landscape
architects around the world, with 77 member associations globally, together with
ASLA in the United States.
The time with each other was a
reaffirmation that the global group of landscape architects share
ambitions to advertise and diversify the profession, set high professional
specifications, and exchange understanding and finest methods across cultures
and communities.
A single of my large takeaways from the gathering is that advocacy and instruction efforts for landscape architecture at nationwide, regional, and local levels are crucial. As a profession, landscape architecture continues to be misunderstood by plan-makers and municipalities throughout the world. In reaction, to improved understand the do the job of landscape architects globally, IFLA partnered with the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB) to launch a world-wide survey of the occupation. I think engaging with selection-makers at every single amount of federal government and getting a lot more landscape architects elected or appointed to general public business office should be a central approach to affect how our communities are built, how initiatives are prioritized, and how funding is allotted.
In my remarks to the IFLA World Council, I talked over the crucial job advocacy performs in our marketplace, and I shared ASLA’s viewpoint and affect on two substantial pieces of federal laws: the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Financial commitment and Careers Act.
As a occupation, landscape architecture remains misunderstood by policy-makers and municipalities across the world.
When Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), we at ASLA swiftly honed in on the allocation of cash for tasks that landscape architects are uniquely experienced to guide. Landscape architects can assistance tip the equilibrium in the designed natural environment from ‘carbon-neutral’ to carbon-favourable, which is what we will need to have for a certainly resilient future.
There is no doubt that the local weather change provision of the IRA will change our financial state into a cleaner just one, as evidenced by the $30 billion in production tax credits to speed up U.S. production of photo voltaic panels, wind turbines, batteries, and significant minerals processing. It also allocates a different $30 billion in tax credits for thoroughly clean sources of energy and electrical power storage and gives focused grant and loan plans for states and electrical utilities to speed up the transition to clean electricity.
And significantly critical for landscape architects and pros in associated fields, the IRA recognizes and resources landscape architecture strategies to tackle climate adjust — from energetic transportation tasks like leisure trails in huge, city metros to nature-primarily based drinking water infrastructure, group tree planting, and ecosystem restoration. Also, the laws makes significant strides in advancing environmental and weather justice by guaranteeing underserved communities get assets to adapt to a transforming climate.
Some of the packages and initiatives usually led by landscape architects, this kind of as lively transportation infrastructure, include $3 billion for a Community Obtain and Fairness Grant System that will help to improve walkability, protection, and cost-effective transportation access via assignments that are “context-sensitive.” In other words and phrases, landscape architects will be enabled to establish or improve complete streets, multi-use trails, regional greenways, active transportation networks or provide affordable access to critical places, community spaces, transportation back links and hubs. This grant application will remove higher-speed and other transportation tasks and services that are barriers to connectivity inside communities, as perfectly as clear away transportation tasks and amenities that are a supply of air pollution, sound air pollution, stormwater, or other burdens in underserved communities. Methods could involve organic infrastructure, permeable or porous pavement, or protective functions to reduce or manage stormwater run-off and even heat island mitigation assignments.
Landscape architects can assistance suggestion the balance in the constructed surroundings from ‘carbon-neutral’ to carbon-constructive, which is what we will need to have for a definitely resilient upcoming.
As we know, the IPCC report introduced earlier this 12 months stated that efforts to combine nature in cities should really be the spine of long run city progress and organizing to increase resilience to local weather impacts.
So now, with confidence, we can notify our political leaders and lawmakers that it’s clever and crucial to provide in a landscape architect at the commencing of a advancement job since they can review the situations to determine the finest way to orient structures, resource h2o, and safeguard organic methods we will want for future resilience.
Landscape architects think about how all the parts of a neighborhood “puzzle” in good shape jointly mainly because they see how entire communities can be intended as a holistic process to cut down vitality use and motor vehicle emissions. Frankly, housing emissions simply cannot effortlessly be decoupled from transportation emissions, which account for a third of total global emissions.
We have also uncovered that expenditure in tree canopies not only mitigates against mounting warmth ranges but can also help group-extensive attempts to decrease strength use. And why is this important? We can see that communities greatly made up of concrete and asphalt — and prepared with no house for trees — are essentially generating warmth islands. It’s also vital to be aware that communities that have knowledgeable redlining and disinvestment are the communities with the fewest trees and the most hazardous warmth islands. We have to mitigate warmth, not exacerbate it.
The Infrastructure Expenditure and Work opportunities Act signed by President Biden last slide also would make important investments in our nation’s transportation, drinking water, renewable electricity, and broadband infrastructure, like action on 13 of the transportation, h2o, and natural useful resource coverage measures supported by ASLA.
The infrastructure laws is also profound in its scope mainly because it enables the United States to consider the very first actions to deal with the legacy of environmental and social inequities in cities created by highways that have divided communities for decades. Exclusively, the “Reconnecting Communities” program provides $1 billion to get rid of highways and reconnect communities as a result of multi-modal transportation choices, boulevard-like eco-friendly spaces, and new connections to financial opportunity. I’m very pleased of the point that even before the enactment of this legislation, ASLA regarded the urgent have to have by honoring landscape architecture firms, by means of our yearly Expert Awards application, for their work to reconnect neighborhoods in their towns.
Communities that have expert redlining and disinvestment are the communities with the fewest trees and the most hazardous warmth islands. We have to mitigate warmth, not exacerbate it.
In addition, h2o and intelligent h2o administration have develop into an even larger very important mainly because of weather adjust. So, we have been happy to see that the infrastructure laws bundled $25 million for 5 new Stormwater Centers of Excellence through the place. The EPA will administer an software approach for faculties and universities, study companies, and nonprofit groups to turn into facilities of excellence. These facilities will investigate new kinds of character-centered eco-friendly infrastructure, methods to increase existing styles, and techniques for financing and rate-placing, community outreach, and experienced education.
I closed my remarks at IFLA by inviting world delegates to sign up for us in San Francisco at the ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture this November, the place we will launch our Local climate Action Prepare and characteristic more than 120 hours of classes that showcase how landscape architects are basically a magic formula weapon to solving many of our major worries.
Networking and finding out from other leaders from across the environment, and sharing some of our lessons realized and alternatives here in the U.S., is an invigorating and hard chance. As a job, landscape architects are energized and ready to make a difference in our communities. We search ahead to deepening our collaborations with our allied professions and govt leaders at each individual amount to structure stronger communities right here at household and about the globe.
MAD Architects’ One River North features a terraced landscape
A copse of 13 tower cranes indicators the massive making increase underway in Denver’s River North community (RiNo), but only 1 of these assignments has a crevasse operating across its facade. The fissure is purposeful, meant to hold a landscaped canyon emerging from the reflective glass facade of A person River North. The structure aims to hook up men and women and character, but the final evidence will get there when this 16-tale, concrete-body tower is accomplished in late 2023. As of mid-August, development crews are positioning concrete for stage 10, and the project is expected to top out by the close of the year.
Built by Beijing-dependent MAD Architects and Denver’s Davis Partnership, when comprehensive, One River North will supply 187 for-lease flats and 13,352 sq. toes of open-air environments. It will likely quickly turn out to be a Denver architectural icon.
The project’s developer is The Max Collaborative, an Ohio-centered organization recognized by the Ratner loved ones in 2019. The organization has a background of making in Denver as Forest City Realty Have confidence in, which was accountable for Central Park, a 4,700-acre redevelopment of the former Stapleton Airport. The firm was obtained by Brookfield in 2018 at an believed charge of $11.4 billion.
“I’ve usually been a significant believer in architecture and a big believer in style,” Kevin Ratner, the firm’s main advancement officer, advised AN. “Over the long time period or even in the brief time period, it definitely allows and differentiates a property,” he included.
Ratner claimed his organization has been “big believers in the Denver industry for a lengthy time” and added that the firm looked to construct in RiNo due to the fact it’s “a community that’s seriously dynamic, quite creative.”
When initial concept renderings were being designed public, locals scoffed at the canyon’s lush-hunting vegetation, doubting its capability to stand up to the area’s chilly, windy winters and the annually regular 300 days of sunshine that often direct to blazing-scorching summer months times. Davis, a multidisciplinary layout business with deep Denver roots, adapted the landscape structure ideas to the space local climate.
“We shared how various our geology is, from significant alpine lakes and tree line to the jap plains,” Jeff Stoecklein, senior landscape architect at Davis, reported. “All of these vegetation need to be adaptable to the microclimates the building is developing,” he included. The canyon will be populated with a variety of plant species to mitigate the danger of die-off of any 1 species and watered by way of an irrigation process. The canyon involves a trail-like walkway throughout 4 flooring and a waterfall in between the eighth and sixth flooring. As the crops mature, “we will witness seasonal alter,” Stoecklein said, which will produce a dynamic and variable watch of the setting up during the yr.
Just one River North is the initial undertaking collaboration between MAD and Davis. Dixon Lu, associate husband or wife at MAD, commented that it is been a “great working experience so far.” He reported getting “very clear is very important” owing to the difficulties of offering the structure and assembly the job funds.
“If you just can’t make it or you operate into problems or people come to feel like there is a whole lot of danger in the design, the cost is heading to go up, so we needed to try out to be pretty thoughtful about how we offered this developing to people so they could realize what it was they had been going to do,” Ratner said. (The Max Collaborative declined to give project costs.)
The Max Collaborative brought Colorado-dependent Saunders Building on board shortly following selecting the design staff, a move that was important to assembly budget and intent. “At the close of the day, we gotta hire the factor, and we’re a for-revenue business, so it is obtained to be equipped to make revenue,” Ratner explained.
“[Saunders] seriously assisted us perform by way of how to demystify the building and how to glimpse for the elements of the setting up that have been seriously distinctive and one of a kind,” states Ratner, including that “they have been, pretty early on in the project, greatly included in a ton of decisions.”
“Our preconstruction effort and hard work was about two many years,” Dan Tuttle, senior challenge supervisor for Saunders, reported.
“It’s not a normal condominium intricate for Colorado,” additional Sean Jackson, Saunders’s senior superintendent. He suggests early builder involvement was significant not only to observe budgets and remain in line with the vision but also to “talk about logistics and how we’re basically going to construct this matter on these kinds of a limited web-site.”
The structure forbids a usual rectilinear stacking of models. The 37 distinctive floor designs added to the challenges with mechanical and structural systems. Tuttle said Saunders introduced glazing, mechanical, and curtain wall trade associates on in a structure-aid purpose early “to coordinate the most tough sections of the challenge, which would be the canyon and the path.”
The canyon’s walls are developed out of a prefabricated panelized framework process of #3 rebar with mesh applied, which supports the plaster producing the canyon’s texture. Jon Kontuly, MAD’s senior job supervisor, explained KHS&S Contractors employed the designers’ model to prefabricate the panels into what the team collectively identified as a “chip” technique.
“It really sort of appears to be like like a ridged potato chip,” stated Kontuly. “They’re capable to use the Rhino product to engineer how thick the bars need to be, how normally they require to be spaced, and also generate the bending details.”
“You can start out building real elaborate styles with the exact fabrication assembly techniques,” Shane Hastain, preconstruction supervisor for KHS&S, stated. It turns into “like a rule technique,” enabling the chips to be welded jointly into what KHS&S phone calls a “quilt” and then put in from the base up. He explained the “super early” coordination with Saunders presented the layout workforce with certainty that the process could satisfy the price range.
Tuttle agreed, stating, when it comes to coordinating design of a constructing like this, “you will need as significantly support as you can get.”
Nancy Kristof is a Denver-primarily based freelance writer who tells tales about the crafted ecosystem.
Jon Kontuly, senior architect at MAD Architects, will present 1 River North at AN’s Facades+ celebration in Denver on September 21.
Tour a Napa Valley Home That Features Groovy Furniture and Gucci Wallpaper | Architectural Digest
You won’t have to undertaking considerably into this serene dwelling, in Napa Valley, California, to come to feel the influence of its designer, Kristen Peña. Schooled in European elegance and proportions, the San Francisco–based decorator, and founder of K Interiors, has set up a name for generating present-day models that thoughtfully stability openness and privacy. Nonetheless, inside this 4-bedroom house, Peña has also managed to go additional in melding the tailor-made, largely monochromatic palette of her consumers with a playful, refined plan that elevates the residence’s all round aesthetic.
“It was a incredibly thoroughly clean slate when I was brought in, so we actually needed to honor all the strains of the interior architecture,” suggests Peña, whose globetrotting as a result of Southeast Asia, Morocco, and over and above, in excess of the several years, has helped cultivate her really like of pattern and texture. “[At the same time,] we preferred to provide accessibility and convenience by applying plenty of artisan designers to assist foster a one of a kind perception of place.”
That thought was furthered by Peña’s clients, two San Francisco tech executives who purchased the 4,500-sq.-foot assets in 2020 as a weekend refuge. These two avid modern art lovers have a extensive-ranging assortment encompassing pieces by a assorted roster of artists who specialize in a variety of media. Now, the interiors are dotted with performs by the likes of British fiber artist Sally England and Denmark-based mostly sculptor Nicholas Shurey.
“Our art selection is an extension of our style, and Kristen seriously recognized that from the outset,” states one particular of the owners of the household. “She established exceptional spaces that not only emphasize the art, but also express our fashion.”
Although artwork plays a starring function in this home, inside furnishings, culled from a wide array of resources, underscore the interplay concerning craft and materiality. In the major residing place, for case in point, a pair of bouclé sofas by British Canadian designer Philippe Malouin flank a travertine and burnished brass desk from Banda, a structure organization primarily based in the U.K. Also of observe is a gold-leafed wall, developed by Bay Area attractive painter Caroline Lizarraga.
A personalized table in the official eating area emphasizes Peña’s urbane sensibilities. She intended the desk herself and experienced it paired with chairs from Stahl + Band, a style and design studio in Venice, California. Somewhere else, handcrafted lights by Natalie Webpage, a Philadelphia artist whose operate includes ceramic lights, ornamental artwork, and item layout, can be seen in the kitchen area.
In the key suite, a custom mattress, from Hardesty Dwyer & Co., anchors a place that also attributes Coup D’Etat oak and bouclé chairs and Thomas Hayes nightstands. A rug from vintage and modern carpet vendor Tony Kitz adds playful warmth to the full room, which consists of much more wall solutions by Caroline Lizarraga.
Colourful walls are a superior point all over the home, and can even be seen in unforeseen places of the residence. “Whenever someone will come to take a look at the house I usually clearly show them the laundry home 1st,” the owner suggests with a slight giggle. The modest area boasts Gucci wallpaper illuminated by a neon gentle photograph. Just a lot more evidence that when it arrived to this venture, Peña left no stone—or sq. foot—unturned.