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Category: Use and Value Diversity

Posted on April 28, 2019 By: southsidep

Dandelion Salad

Sprouting up are dandelions– going full speed ahead! If you’d like to make yourself a salad bursting with nutrients and flavor, this is for you!…

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Posted on January 31, 2019February 9, 2019 By: southsidep

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…

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Posted on January 29, 2019February 4, 2019 By: southsidep

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…

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Posted on December 21, 2018April 5, 2022 By: southsidep

A Walk in the Woods: Observe & Interact

After finishing the last test of the semester on Monday, I decided to go for a nice long run to unwind. The air was crisp…

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Posted on September 12, 2018September 14, 2018 By: southsidep

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.…

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Posted on September 3, 2018October 18, 2018 By: southsidep

Saving Seed

Seeds. For much of our history, seeds were considered to be some of the most valuable possessions. If asked what they would take from their…

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Posted on July 23, 2018September 13, 2018 By: southsidep

Integrated Pest Control

Modern day industrial agriculture uses an obscene amount of pesticides and herbicides in order to maintain any reasonable level of productivity. These chemical concoctions of…

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Posted on July 18, 2018July 23, 2018 By: southsidep

Pollinators: They’re the Bees Knees!

At the South Side Permaculture Park, we’re growing a variety of flowering plants such as coneflower, coreopsis, blazing star, anise hyssop, etc. Flowering plants attract…

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