Practising Permaculture to Grow Food & Community in South Osborne

SSOCC is part of an urban food movement which seeks to grow local organic food in a sustainable way while fostering self-reliance and community self-reliance. We work with plant and animal communities to build ecological webs of life in small gardens and orchards, which operate as community commons. We help to design and manage these local places to build soil fertility without the use of fertilizers and to manage pests and diseases without the use of chemical poisons. As these permaculture sites mature, we learn and teach how to grow food in a low carbon way and share the natural abundance of these living communities with those among us who lack food security. We practise the permaculture ethics:  care of earth, care of people, fair share.