In addition to the American Society of Landscape Architects Northern California Chapter’s honor Award, April Philips Design Works was awarded the 2015 Design Merit Award for their work at VF Outdoor. The corporate campus design was a 15 acre project for industry leading brands such as; The North Face, JanSport and lucy. The facility…
April Philips Design Works was recently awarded the American Society of Landscape Architects Northern California Chapter’s honor award in research, planning, analysis and communication for their book; “Designing Urban Agriculture – A Complete Guide to the Planning, Design, Construction, Maintenance and Management of Edible Landscapes” 2015 honor award . The publication has helped shape the way…
APDW is partnering with the Mission YMCA and Zynga.org to design and build a community garden for the Mission YMCA. We are excited to be a part of this edible garden that will serve all members of the community, providing access to nutritious, healthy food and an opportunity to engage with nature in the urban…
The plot to Designing Urban Agriculture thickens! July and August were very bountiful months. The book has been getting lots of press and last month we were mentioned in not one but four places out there in the world. First, April was interviewed by the dirt diva herself, Annie Spiegelman and it landed in the…
The process of planting a tree is an impressive one. We recently documented the planting of this specimen olive tree, an anchor point for the VF Outdoor edible garden. The selection of the tree was first and paramount. The tree was meant to be the focal point and primary gathering space in the edible garden….
Recently I was invited to an Eat Your Sidewalk Showdown event in San Francisco. Eating your sidewalk – that either sounds like a lot of fun or a very scary proposition depending on how familiar you might be with the term urban foraging. This event co-sponsored by Spurse, a research and design collaborative, and AECOM,…
With the book, Designing Urban Agriculture, coming together nicely and a fast approaching publishing date (March 2013!) we thought a little peek at what is coming would be fun… VF Outdoor, the people who bring you The North Face, Vans, Lucy Jansport, and much more, encompasses the outdoor and environmentally responsible lifestyle. In their continued effort…