This blog post is dedicated to natural disaster resiliency. We first owe a shoutout to one of our readers, Phebe, for inspiring this post! She…
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!…
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…
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…
The Yellow Tulip Project
This Saturday, December 1st 2018, a group of students gathered in the Southside Permaculture park to plant what is likely the first “Yellow Tulip Project”…
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.…
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…
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…
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…