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.

01 SEPTEMBER 2023 FIELDWORK UPDATE: Back at Highside Market for a final plant punch list. A few tweaks here and there, but overall the plants are developing nicely. We especially enjoy seeing the tangled textures of the perennial mosaic.

08 AUGUST 2023 FIELDWORK UPDATE: The HILLWORKS Biomass Manipulation Team spent some time curating the emerging plant mix within the basins at Auburn’s Advanced Structural Engineering Laboratory. We love how the basins are developing as the plants continue to grow.

07 AUGUST 2023  HILLWORKS is happy to announce that Rachel Perez has rejoined the design team.

22 JUNE 2023 FIELDWORK UPDATE: We ran over to check on the big-ol’-basins at Auburn’s Advanced Structural Engineering Laboratory.

17 JUNE 2023 FIELDWORK UPDATE: Winter cover crops looking nice and blonde these days within Auburn’s Transformation Garden. This cool season mix was seeded in November.

02 JUNE 2023  HILLWORKS is thrilled to welcome summer interns Paulina Arango, Allyssa Clements, and Tatum Debardeleben.