We’re elated to share that Highside Market has received an Honor Award in General Design from the Alabama chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects [ASLA]!
14 MARCH 2024
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.
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.
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.
19 MAY 2023
The Transformation Garden at Auburn University is awarded a 2023 Merit Award in Analysis and Planning from the ASLA Southeastern Regional Conference.
09 MARCH 2023
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Drone shots of Transformation Garden winter crops.
15 FEBRUARY 2023
FIELDWORK UPDATE: We enjoyed a dormant season burn in the Alabama Meadows research plots with the landscape architecture students from Auburn.
10 NOVEMBER 2022
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Chunky-Monkey-Mock-Up-Update at Pratt Mill.
29 OCTOBER 2022
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Soil building continues at Auburn University’s Transformation Garden. Winter cover crops were seeded right through the fading summer cover earlier this week using a seed drill.
10 OCTOBER 2022
David Hill and Emily Knox are delighted to announce that Alabama Meadows Research Plots received an Honor Award in Research from the American Society of Landscape Architects [ASLA].
21 SEPTEMBER 2022
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Sadie and Rachel spent the day counting, flagging, and arranging species in the perennial mix beds at Highside Market in downtown Columbus, GA.
28 JULY 2022
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Drone shot from the Alabama Meadows Research Plots as the grasses are getting lengthy.
19 JULY 2022
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Trees have been planted at Highside Market.