So, one of the places the permaculture team is focusing on before the weather turns warm enough for seedlings to be transported to the ground…
Lenape ‘Permaculture’: The Three Sisters
The land where the Southside Permaculture Park exists today, and much of the land in Eastern PA, northern DE, southern NY, and NJ, is…
Permaculture as Situation Planning
“The most important thing we can do right now, regardless of what the future holds, is to build community, solidarity, and a culture of radical…
Feature: The ‘Calitheatre’!
The calitheatre is a calisthenic workout center and lecture/performance space integrated with vines, swales, and rain gardens to be built at the Southside Permaculture Park…
Philosophy of the SSPP Part 4: Getting Involved
Welcome back. Over the last three weeks we have explored the basics of permaculture, social fragmentation and power dynamics in the context of industrialism, and…
Philosophy of the SSPP Part 3: Human/Nature Dualism, Contradictions, and the Thermodynamics of Civilization
Welcome back to the Philosophy of the Southside Permaculture park post series. Part 1: Introduction to Permaculture and the SSPP Part 2: Social Fragmentation, Power…
Philosophy of the SSPP Part 1: Introduction
Welcome to the Southside Permaculture Park’s official website. In this 4-part post series, we will dive deeper into the many of the topics that we…
Guild Highlight
In the absence of human intervention, species of plants, animals, fungi, and bacterial automatically group themselves together in ways that mutually benefit all those involved.…
Getting to the Roots of “Nature”
*For more on this topic, see our post “Human/Nature Dualism, Contradictions, and the Energetics of Society“.* Ah yes, Nature. Eternal and pure, Nature (with a…
Fungi: The Forgotten Kingdom, The Missing Link
Fungi are largely ignored and misunderstood by modern society, though their abilities could offer solutions to a broad spectrum of issues that plague our civilization.…