09 FEBRUARY 2024 Another dormant season burn in the books for the Alabama Meadows Research Plots! So glad to have students from Auburn University’s MLA program join us again this year.

07 FEBRUARY 2024 We are honored, honestly downright giddy, to be named a 2024 Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York! Congratulations to our fellow 2024 recipients: AD—WO, CANO VERA arquitectura, David T Fortin Architect, Estudio ALA, Latent, TEN x TEN, and THE OPEN WORKSHOP

28 JANUARY 2024 FIELDWORK UPDATE: Spent the day preparing the Alabama Meadows Research Plots for the next burn.

26 JANUARY 2024 FIELDWORK UPDATE: Back in the basins at Auburn’s Advanced Structural Engineering Laboratory this morning after a few rainy days and loving the wet winter tones. We recently received a seed grant to more carefully observe how the basins perform and how the plant communities continue to evolve. More to come soon!

09 JANUARY 2024 FIELDWORK UPDATE: Allow us to introduce you to PLOT 6! That’s right, we’ve added another plot to the Alabama Meadows research within Auburn’s Mary Olive Thomas Demonstration Forest. We’re not introducing a new mix of seeds into this plot, but watching how annual fire impacts the existing assemblage. Fingers crossed for some good dormant season burns in the next few weeks.

30 DECEMBER 2023 FIELDWORK UPDATE: We’re loving the long light and winter textures seen on today’s quick site visit to Breaker Breaker.

14 DECEMBER 2023 Today is the day we have all been waiting for – the GRAND OPENING of Highside Market!! It has been an incredible journey watching this development come together. [photo by @johndpyle]

07 OCTOBER 2023 FIELDWORK UPDATE: Upper basin at Auburn’s Advanced Structural Engineering Laboratory is really showing it’s punk side. Basin 01 sports a nice mohawk of perennial pioneers of Goldenrod (Solidago), Fleabane (Erigeron), Dogfennel, and Boneset (both Eupatorium) emerging within the planted woody thicket of Chokeberry (Aronia). Pollinators are all over it. Just lovely to watch these develop.

04 OCTOBER 2023 We’re pretty excited about the article in this month’s Landscape Architecture Magazine featuring the Alabama Meadows research collaboration with Emily Knox. Thank you Irina Zhorov for your careful and generous words.

05 SEPTEMBER 2023 FIELDWORK UPDATE: The cover crops at Auburn’s Transformation Garden are showing off again this season. Sunn Hemp is in the legume family, builds biomass and fixes nitrogen, and was seeded (via seed-drill) in mid-June. For the most part, it has grown to over 6’ tall, except for where it hasn’t. It’s bald spots are doing a great job revealing where the soils are most degraded. Thank you Audrey Gamble for continuing to coordinate the cover crop rotation.