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Category: Use Edges & Value the Marginal

Posted on February 23, 2019February 26, 2019 By: southsidep

Water, Sediment, and Using Edges

With lots of snow followed by warmer weather, there’s lots of water flowing everywhere. Here on the mountain, that water rushes with gravity downslope towards…

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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 November 13, 2018 By: southsidep

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…

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Posted on November 7, 2018November 30, 2018 By: southsidep

Using Edges: Negotiating Boundaries with Grass

Grass seems to have a dual identity in our society. For many home-owners and property developers, a homogeneous grass lawn is a symbol of status…

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Posted on October 1, 2018February 9, 2019 By: southsidep

Philosophy of the SSPP Part 2: Social Fragmentation, Power Dynamics, and Cooperation vs Competition

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…

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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 August 22, 2018June 8, 2022 By: southsidep

Mycoremediation in Action

On a visit to a materials dump yard to pick up some logs to build some structures in the park, we noticed something interesting. The…

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Posted on June 28, 2018July 5, 2018 By: southsidep

Rocky Soil: Asset or Liability?

While digging a swale, we came across an absurd quantity of rocks. The soil was incredibly compacted and almost 50% rocks by volume, leaving us…

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