Kate Kennen, ASLA

Owner & Associate Teaching Professor
Offshoots, Inc. & Northeastern University
Charlestown, Massachusetts

Kate Kennen is founder of Offshoots, Inc., a Boston, MA landscape architecture and horticultural installation practice focused on productive planting techniques and phytotechnology consulting. She grew up on her family’s garden center Pleasant View Nursery, which she now helps operate, and has degrees from Cornell University and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design with distinction in Landscape Architecture. Kate’s book, co-authored with Niall Kirkwood, PHYTO: Principles and Resources for Site Remediation and Landscape Design, received national awards. Kate is also a fulltime faculty member at Northeastern University’s College of Arts, Media and Design teaching landscape technologies and planting design.

Presentation(s):

• SAT-A11: Magic Mushrooms: Improving Landscape Performance and Engagement with Fungi

  Saturday, November 12, 2022
  11:00am – 12:15pm PT

• SUN-B11: Growing PHYTO: Integrating Phytotechnologies in the Public Realm to Mitigate Polluted Sites

  Sunday, November 13, 2022
  2:00pm – 3:15pm PT