Category: Food Forest
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Spreading Mulch, Building Sponge (Take Two): Our Paid Workday is Back On!
Well, river valley friends, the sky had other plans for us last weekend. If there’s one thing a garden teaches you pretty quickly, it’s that the weather runs the show. We can’t control that and I believe it was Marcus Aurelius who said, “Get over it, Bryan.” No? But the heat is still coming, our…
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Spreading Mulch, Building Sponge
Join Us for a Paid Workday This Saturday! If you’ve been wanting to see permaculture and food forest principles in action—or if you just want to spend a Saturday evening doing some grounded, community-focused work—we’d love to have you out at the Truck Patch. This Saturday, July 11th, we are hosting a hands-on community workday…
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The Greenhouse Oven and Victory by Proxy
There is a distinct kind of bait-and-switch in the way we plan for spring versus how the season actually plays out. Spring is capricious—it builds up your hopes with cool, gentle mornings where you play bouncy, soft reggae by Bluetooth (just me?) engendering a unquestioned trust in the earth and its intentions for you, your…
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Rethinking Careers: Why Designers Should Explore Gardening
Reflections on transition from graphic designer to a multifaceted role encompassing gardening, homeschooling, and community service. We explore the idea of using graphic design skills in permaculture and the like, advocating for a deeper connection to nature and community during unstable times.
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Community Efforts: Bringing Wood Chips to Build a Food Forest
The future of SSTP will involve a lot of trees. Planting trees, giving away trees, chopping and even chipping trees. Right now, it’s mostly planting. And with a little help from the community, chipping. The reason we need to be chipping wood (and are soliciting unwanted wood chips) is because part of the process of…