Digging Deeper: Hood Park: Gravel to Green
Charlestown, MA
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This Digging Deeper is presented in partnership with COG Design.
Phytoremediation plants take center stage to mitigate groundwater and highway-generated air pollution at Hood Park, a half-acre public park and bike commuter hub. This reimagined landscape on the former Hood Milk plant both cleanses' pollutants and creates a catalyst for the redevelopment of industrial lands. A bike pavilion is tucked under a sloping topography to hide the elevated highway to the west. The topography raises the entire park out of the 2100 coastal flood zone and provides stormwater storage under the lawn to accommodate runoff from future buildings. The integrated architectural forms of the building and landscape frame the ecological plantings, creating a model for resiliency. Kate Kennan, Landscape Architect of Hood Bike Park & Founder of Offshoots, will share the design process and essential phytoremediation plantings of the park, and offer ways to apply this park's sustainability principles to home gardens.
$30 Members | $40 General
Digging Deeper Date: Sunday, June 1
Hours: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Location
Digging Deeper: Hood Park: Gravel to Green
Suffolk
Charlestown, MA 02129
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