Scientific Name: Solanum lycopersicum Description: Tomato plants can spread from 24- 72 inches wide, and generally have multiple branches. The plant’s flowers are yellow with five petals. They are almost an inch across and come in clusters. Tomatoes can range vastly in size depending on the type of tomato plant you are growing. The smallest […]
Carrots are a biennial vegetable with a large, starchy taproot. Most often, the taproot is orange, though yellow, white, and purple varieties also exists. In its first year, the carrot grows a rosette of pinnately compound leaves, similar in shape to parsley or cilantro (to which it is related), that are arranged in a spiral […]
Welcome to the Southside Permaculture Park’s official website. In this 4-part post series, we will dive deeper into the many of the topics that we… *For more on this topic, see our post “Human/Nature Dualism, Contradictions, and the Energetics of Society“.* Ah yes, Nature. Eternal and pure, Nature (with a… Human civilization may seem so […]
Food is the cornerstone of our society, and in fact, all life. As such, it is paramount that our food supply be secure and resilient, even in uncertain times. An inability to provide a stable food supply would certainly drive hungry people into civil unrest, and could lead to the failure of the state to […]