We design landscapes
built to outlast us.

Thicket Workshop creates ecological landscapes across the Finger Lakes, Catskills, and Adirondacks — places we know not just as a service area, but as a subject of long-term study. We've walked, biked, hiked, and paddled this region for years; read its histories; returned to places that fascinate us in every season. That situated, nuanced knowledge isn't background to our work. It's the foundation every project is built on.

Our projects range widely in scale and setting — from suburban meadow gardens that rewild a backyard, to hedgerows woven into public parks, to hundred-year forest planting plans for expansive rural properties. What they share is a commitment to the long view.

We collaborate with thoughtful, ambitious clients who plan to steward their land over time, who think in decades rather than seasons, and who want their landscapes to grow more complex and alive with each passing year.

Thicket Workshop is led by Matt Dallos, an Assistant Professor in the Landscape Architecture Department at SUNY ESF. He holds a graduate degree in landscape architecture from Penn State and a PhD in environmental history from Cornell — a combination that anchors the firm's work in both active design practice and deep ecological scholarship. That dual grounding shapes everything: how we read a site, how we understand its past, and how we imagine what it might become.