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…
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…