Carlisle, PA

Penn State Landscape Architecture undergraduate Honors student Grace Steward is working with Giant Food Stores, LLC and Penn State Extension Master Watershed Stewards to create a master plan for their headquarter campus along the Harrisburg Pike. Grace’s idea is to integrate Giant’s missions of eliminating hunger, changing children’s lives, and healing our planet to create a plan telling the story of pollination and food production.

Philadelphia, PA

Penn State Landscape Architecture graduate Leslie Hendricks worked with Philadelphia Water Department to create a planting design for the Botanic Avenue Bioretention to address concerns around plant survivability, maintenance issues, and pollutant removal.  Similar to the Mount Joy project, a mixed-method approach was used that included expert interviews, a plant choice framework, a design framework, local resources, and precedents to create a plant database to apply to the design.