Overgrown Ideas

This week, host Forrestt Williams sat down with Nick Straabe, a specifications manager in Hunter Industries' Southern California region, to talk about the importance of networking in the ever-changing world of landscape architecture. The two delved into Nick's early background, which saw his desire to design golf courses inspire him to study landscape architecture and pursue a career in th...

Host Forrestt Williams sat down with Land F/X CEO Jeremiah Farmer to discuss the present and potential roles played by A.I. in the landscape architecture world. While acknowledging the fears surrounding A.I. – some valid and some admittedly far-fetched – the conversation juxtaposed A.I. with the automation of tedious tasks that served as the impetus for the founding of Land F/X. We learned what so...

Forrestt and Alex from Land F/X sat down to nerd out about psychoacoustics, which is just a fancy term for understanding how our brains handle the noise around us. They chatted about how city noise, like traffic and construction, actually stresses us out and can even lead to heart problems. (The cool part: Sounds from natural sources like water and birds counteract those issues, helping body and m...

Damien Knight, associate landscape designer of RRM Design Group (and a former Land F/X team member), joins us to discuss the complex world of water conservation. We explore the constant struggle to convince clients to choose native, drought-tolerant plants over the lush, water-heavy aesthetics in their dreams – along with the heavy tech stack incorporating everything from SketchUp and Revit to Lum...

This episode's topic was inspired by Land F/X Chief Operating Officer Krystal Bozarth's recent frustrations with baking in the heat while chasing her two young daughters around sun-drenched playgrounds in her hometown. Land F/X's in-house landscape architecture expert Amanda Berry, who brings experience in municipal playground design, will explore the thought process behind designin...