Students: Cate Adams, Emma Clopton, Isabelle Spirk, and Julie Wright
1. List the top 20 questions your team needs to answer to advance the venture forward. Categorize the questions if necessary.
20 Questions: Southside Permaculture Park Edition
- How do we want to serve our community?
- How can we handle deer management?
- What kind of plants are we planting?
- What do we need to research beforehand about our target audience?
- What do we need to research about the plants we intend to grow?
- How can we work with Lehigh University to promote community and campus engagement?
- How can we measure community satisfaction with our project?
- What are the community needs of Bethlehem that the project can provide aid for?
- How do we build off of past teams’ ventures?
- How can we promote permaculture ethics and principles?
- Who can we partner with and how do we keep them engaged?
- What resources do we need?
- How can we promote sustainable consumption and voluntary simplistic living?
- How can we improve our online presence (website/social media, etc.)?
- Can we shift from a model permaculture park to an active community permaculture park?
- How can we engage local organizations?
- What are ways we can educate the local community about permaculture ethics and sustainable consumer behaviors?
- How can we encourage healthy lifestyles through permaculture ethics and principles?
- How can we effectively measure NPP?
- Through what ways can we enhance our marketing?
2. Develop and Visualize the Theory of Change (Logic Model) for your venture. Please submit a crisp visual.
3. Develop a Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) plan for your venture. Identify short-term and long-term outcomes.
For the Outputs and Outcomes you identified, what are your metrics of success?
- Net Primary Productivity of the park
- Community satisfaction with park
- Engagement of local community partners
- Amount of produce lost to wildlife invasion
How will you measure them?
Short-Term
- Monitoring plant growth each week
- Monitoring community engagement each week
- Monitoring plants to see if they have been eaten
Long-Term
- Keeping an overall log in the primary growing season of what grows in the park
- Keeping a log of who uses our produce/ what is of most interest grown
- Monitoring research/knowledge generation throughout the experience