Emma Clopton || The Southside Permaculture Park 

1) Give three examples of something very interesting you learned from a friend that was a completely alien concept to you

• Loving and Caring For Your Internal Ecosystem:  

My sister, Nadine, is someone who continuously inspires me everyday. She has taught me everything about connecting with nature and how to heal your body through natural routes. Her interests in homeopathic medicine has led her down a journey of healing through food and old traditional practices that have been overtaken by westernized medicine. Nadine has taught me that you have to be more intentional about what you feed your internal ecosystem. She has helped me develop a passion for nutrition and supporting microbiome health through organic foods. This concept of caring for your internal ecosystem has made me realize the importance of reciprocating that love and attention to the environment. Rather than treating the planet as a dumping ground and forgetting to recognize our ecosystems as our homes, we should hone in on the way our bodies feel after we provide it the care it needs and deserves. 

• “We Are The Architects of Our Lives” : 

Last year I took a trip to Breckenridge, Colorado. During the trip, I came across an artist’s gallery, Topher Straus, an impressionistic landscape artist. I was completely awestruck by the art he produced and had the opportunity to connect with him as he was sitting at a desk creating new content. He taught me how he creates his art and while interacting, I got to learn his story. I asked him if he had any piece of advice to share and he simply said that “we are the architects of our lives”. Whatever we wanna do in the future, to be change agents, to inspire and create impact whether it’s through an artistic outlet, political, or anything in between. 

• “How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything”: 

In my 6th grade, my teacher, Frank Murphy, was a huge advocate for teaching leadership lessons. His lessons would be interwoven with English lessons, learning the importance of being change agents through literature. One of the most valuable lessons I still hold myself to today is the idea of “how you do anything is how you do everything”. This quote by Martha Beck, emphasizes habits of handling certain situations. The way you manage challenges and experiences are most likely reciprocated in most other aspects of life. For example, if you find it challenging to make your bed in the morning, the attitude surrounding this self-care habit is most likely to be reciprocated in other self-care routine habits. By learning this quote at a young age, I continue to challenge myself and strive to improve the way I go about daily habits and experiences.

 2) List ten things that make you feel human

There are so many aspects to daily life that make me aware and appreciative of being human and present in this world. However, rarely do I ever reflect on the moments, especially the small ones, that make me abundantly grateful for being alive. Below is a list of the small and big moments that make me feel present, connected, and grounded:

1. Emotions… the good, the bad, & the ugly: I firmly believe that emotions are the #1 thing that makes you feel human. Being able to express and feel emotions allows you to create sincere connections with others. Feelings, whether happy or sad, draw people together to support and care for one another. Without emotions, I feel as though it would be near impossible to build impactful relationships with others, as well as for your planet. 
2.  Waking up energized: This is a very small part of the day that I rarely consider, but as I reflect on what makes me feel connected, this is one of the most important parts of my day. Waking up energized allows me to take on the day heads-on with confidence and filled with positive energy. 
3. Helping others: This may be cliche, but the overwhelming sense of gratification that overcomes you when you help someone is one of the most rewarding feelings. Knowing you can impact a person’s life for the better fuels me to continue to want to make a difference. 
4. Cooking: I use cooking as a meditative practice. Cooking is incredibly gratifying, knowing that I am providing myself nourishment through a creative outlet. With my interests in eating to support my gut health, I have loved finding ways to create and share colorful dishes that are packed with gut healthy foods and nutrients. Lastly, cooking is a way of expressing my appreciation for someone.
5. Creating & listening to music: Music has always been a creative outlet and an escape for me. I have been involved in vocal ensembles for over 10 years and have developed the most sincere connections with people. Music is expressive and a way to learn and appreciate different cultures. It also enriches our history, for music is our ancestor. Music is also a way to feel emotions and be moved/inspired. For me, I have always experienced musical frisson (when music is so impactful and melodic that my body physically reacts through chills/tears). Music lives within me and lives amongst us in all aspects of life. 
6. Being in nature: Every time I reconnect with mother nature, I tend to reflect on how the world has evolved to where I am grounded today. Seeing how different systems function harmoniously in nature makes me appreciate and remember how interconnected we all are.
7. Being with friends & family: Being surrounded by loved ones always makes me feel abundantly appreciative of being human. Even in the bad moments, I am still grateful that I am able to care deeply for others and experience the emotions of connection with others.
8. Traveling: I have always loved getting the opportunities to see and explore the world. Traveling for me is heavily routed around seeing nature and getting to learn about new cultures and traditions, whether it be through food, music, language, infrastructure, etc. Seeing the world also makes me so appreciative of life and how unique humans are.
9. Food: Food is one of the best ways to appreciate different cultures and to connect with others. Food is also a great way to connect with the past in addition to the present. Food is filled with memories, our favorite dishes are filled with feelings of nostalgia and will always have a way of bringing people together.
10. Work: As much as I oftentimes dread doing work, it is constantly a great reminder to be grateful for the opportunity to learn and study about different functions of society and of the world. Work is a way to dive into interests (or not) and become a more holistically-minded individual. I will always be thankful to have the opportunity to constantly learn and grow.

3) Articulate your philosophy of engagement as it pertains to your work with the Impact Fellowship… 

• Why should I engage? 

Being an Environmental Studies major who is heavily passionate about improving community spaces and health, I feel like so much needs to be acted upon within the Bethlehem community. Over the past 8 years, I have watched this community slowly become displaced due to rapid gentrification. Residents of Bethlehem also lack affordable healthy food access; with only one grocery store in town and a seasonal farmer’s market that really does not supply abundant healthy food options, it is difficult for residents of the Southside to make lifestyle changes affordably. Access to grocery stores is a social determinant of health that is a crucial component to the overall web of health. The Permaculture Park is a way for Lehigh University to assist the community by providing affordable access to regeneratively grown, nutrient-rich foods that do not disrupt the local ecosystem. The park also provides an inviting green space for community members to enjoy that removes them from urban chaos. Access to healthy food is a raging pandemic across the globe and it is important to seek out the opportunities to make positive change and improve the livelihoods of local communities to rebuild their health.

• How must I engage? 

There are many ways to engage with the community as an IF. For one, it is important to ensure that the permaculture park is an inviting open space for everyone to enjoy and take reasonably from. Communication, whether it be in-person or online, is essential to working towards the overall goal of providing a healthy food source to the Southside Bethlehem community. I must also engage within the institution, encouraging Lehigh to support projects like the SSPP that serve and give back to the community. Additionally, it is important to always invite and entertain questions about permaculture and continue to learn from one another and the community as to how we can best provide and make impactful change with minimal risk.

• With whom must I engage?

For my Impact Fellowship, I must engage with the Southside Bethlehem/ Lehigh Valley community, Lehigh University community, and with partners whether that may be local or not. I must engage with community members and work amongst them, listen to their stories and get to truly know what it is like growing up in this urban food desert. I must listen to their hopes and visions for the green future of the small city. I must also engage with Lehigh University, pushing the institution to open its arms more for the Bethlehem community. Lehigh is pushing the local community away, gentrifying the area and displacing individuals. A call to action is necessary, there must be internal institutional changes to encourage Lehigh to provide for the community, not extract from it. I firmly believe that the Permaculture Park is an extended arm that Lehigh offers (despite the never-ending conflicts) to the Bethlehem community to serve and improve the area. Lastly, I must engage with local organizations to stimulate the local economy, work with community members, provide education surrounding healthy and sustainable food options and the importance of green space.

• What kinds of challenges, opportunities, and approaches should I care about?

I believe that all challenges I may face over the next year are great opportunities to push for a healthier Southside Bethlehem community. Challenges will include resistance from Lehigh University and its’ lack of interest in getting involved with the local community. Challenges will also include advocating for urban green space, spreading the message and ethics about permaculture practices, encouraging healthy food options especially those that are locally grown. Additionally, challenges will also stem from environmental components, dealing with deer and pest management, uncertainties with weather, growing sufficient yields, etc. I believe that all of these obstacles are opportunities for learning and a way to emotionally connect even closer to the project. Lastly, I believe that no matter what obstacle is being faced, it should be dealt with patiently and proactively. It is important to not give up and to be patient, especially when dealing with trial and error with producing food.

• What might my epitaph read?

“Be Where Your Feet Are”. This means that you should be in the present and enjoy life, especially in the now. Time flies by, it is important to remain grounded in the now, build connections that will last a lifetime, make positive impact, and just simply feel. I myself will oftentimes feel sensations of disconnection from the present, losing myself in thoughts of the past (not necessarily healthy nostalgic memories). Being where your feet are allows you to remain anchored, focused, and appreciative of where you are now. This is a mantra I hold myself accountable to each day and will continue to improve on daily.

 

Blog #6: Team Prompt

Students: Cate Adams, Emma Clopton, Isabelle Spirk, Julie Wright

1. What are the technological, social, economic, and political trends that will impact (help or hurt) your ventures?

Technological:
Technologically, there are several outlets we can effectively use to boost our mission and community engagement at the Permaculture Park. For one, our website continues to be a strong outlet for educational information. Many people, across the globe, have referenced our information provided on our website. As we continue to expand on the project, we will work extensively on the website, improving and updating new information throughout the next year. As we plan to look into understanding the connection between soil health and human health as well as the impacts of green space within an urban area, we will publish blogs on our findings. We also hope to create an interactive platform on the website for people across the globe to ask questions and leave comments on our posts.

Secondly, social media has become a powerful tool for spreading influential and informational content. Our goal over the next year is to become more active on social platforms, increasing our following. We intend to share educational content about environmental practices that can be easily adopted into daily life rituals, and post updates about our journey. Social media is often an outlet for spreading a lot of misinformation and negative feed; we hope to combat this problem by providing meaningful and impactful content, expanding the practices and ethics of permaculture and caring for your local community.

Social:
Relationships between Lehigh University and Southside Bethlehem can both help and hurt our ventures. In the past, many student projects that have collaborated with Southside Bethlehem residents have often been dropped by students, leaving residents to deal with any burdens of the project or issues it may have caused. However, there are also many residents interested in Lehigh University projects and how these projects can benefit the community. There is also an uprising trend in community gardens and sustainable living, meaning more people may be interested in the park and learning about permaculture principles and ethics.

Economic:
Economics in our venture will depend partially on funding for our project that we can earn from grants and also possibly Lehigh to compensate for cost of implementation for the projects we want to pursue to enhance the Permaculture Park and achieve sustainable outcomes. In the past, bLUeprint Grants and the Sustainable Initiative Grant have been sources of financial capital for the Permaculture Park and have resulted in outputs such as planting an orchard and constructing a deer fence. The outcomes of these funded initiatives include making the Permaculture Park more sustainable and able to better serve not only the Lehigh community but also the greater Southside community at large. For instance, keeping the deer from eating produce grown in the park’s garden allows nutritious food to reach people who lack access to such healthy options in an urban area. In order to continue this work and begin other projects, our project must receive the necessary funding. Our team will have to apply for grants, meet deadlines, and work with both Lehigh and local partners. We will also honor the ethics and principles of permaculture by supporting local businesses and organizations to promote a circular economy.

Political Trends:
Political trends will expectedly affect our venture by creating a drive to protect the environment while potentially but potentially also causing political tensions to deepen. In recent years, the environment has become not just a political topic of debate, but a highly polarized one. Individuals who may have positively strong feelings towards the environment, will support the work our team focuses on, especially the holistic design-system approach we employ in our ecological efforts. Some may avidly support our goals while others oppose/deny them. In many cases, people may simply just feel indifferent. We will have to navigate these political trends; networking and recruiting interested parties, while educating those who are unaware of permaculture principles and ethics, and talking with people who hold conflicting views.

Students: Cate Adams, Emma Clopton, Isabelle Spirk, & Julie Wright 

Southside Permaculture Park

Blog 5 Prompt Responses

1)  Does your work require IRB approvals…right now? At a later stage? If Yes, articulate your detailed IRB strategy. If No, explain why you don’t need IRB approval and identify situations when you might need IRB approval.

Currently, the Southside Permaculture Park team is not seeking any IRB approval for our projects. We plan to expand on systems design plans that have been developed over the years and do more nature-based research, looking into soil health and how regenerative agriculture impacts human and plant health. Perhaps down the line, we may consider surveying the Bethlehem community for further research on ways permaculture ethics and principles and urban green space could impact daily life. We may potentially need IRB approval if we decide to conduct research on understanding diets within the local region and asking members of the Bethlehem community to openly mention their consumption habits, food source, and overall physical and mental well-being. This would help our project define where food is being consumed from, how often, and how what is being consumed impacts health. 

2) Based on your life experience, skills and interests, what would a design process that is both uniquely yours and effective look like?

The design process for the permaculture park includes first contextualizing the current state of the project.  Understanding what past teams have accomplished as well as any challenges and shortcomings they faced will help our team to plan moving forward.  After the context of the project has been established, our team will identify constraints, define metrics, and consider externalities that will help us then set our goals.  Turning our ideas into goals, which must then be followed up with action, we must make sure our goals are measurable.  Setting our goals will allow us to envision short and long term productivity.  Once the agenda is defined, execution of the project will require identifying and capitalizing strengths of individual group members.  Execution will then also call us to engage outside sources, including the stakeholders below.  A priority of team engagement of the local South Bethlehem community relies on expanding our network.  As plans become reality, we will measure and revise our design.  Making this design process sustainable, the heart of permaculture and creative inquiry, is pivotal to the longevity of our project.    

3) Identify your three most important stakeholders and list five UNIQUE attributes for each one of them.

Users: The Bethlehem community, in particular the southside. Users range from young children, their teachers, and other adults who reside in the local area. 

• Descriptor Variables: a majority of southside residents are a part of the BIPOC community, which socioeconomically is of lower status. 
• Geographically, users will be mostly within the urban area of Bethlehem.
• Values: Users value learning about permaculture principles and ethics and how they can be integrated into their own lives and practices. 
• Use Occasion/Usage Rate: Users would most likely be directly involved with the permaculture park only periodically, in their spare time. Although, a long connection would hopefully be established.
• Price Sensitivity: Users will be interested in engagement with little to no monetary cost.  The Bethlehem community and local organizations will work together in a mutually beneficial way through, most often, volunteer capacities and efforts.

Lehigh University: The park is located on Lehigh University property, which means park use must adhere to any guidelines set by the university. 

• Community engagement: Lehigh administration is notorious for not engaging in relations between the university and Southside Bethlehem, which is exactly the area the park aims to target. 
• Student body: The on-campus park provides Lehigh students with an opportunity to learn more about permaculture and building partnerships. A handful of students have already reached out with interests in permaculture to discuss how they can get involved in the project. 
• Risk management: The university has strict guidelines about risk management that are intended to protect the safety of students and the university, which means that some elements of park projects may require extra steps to get approval.
• Education: A research institute, Lehigh may have an interest and responsibility in the park as a site of education and research. 
• Brand: Although officially named the Southside Permaculture Park, the park is owned by Lehigh and represents the brand of the university.

Environmental Organizations: Environmental interest groups, including enviornmental justice and conservation groups, are ideal partners for the permaculture park.  

• Size (Region): Environmental organizations on a local scale (including regional branches of national organizations)
• Values: Environmental organizations have shared values with our project of environmental ethics and sustainability.
• Motives: Environmental organizations will be interested in partnering with a project linked to a major university to certify credibility and take advantage of the wide platform.
• Interests: Increasing social networks to include students and even engage the broader community.
• Occupation: Operating in a professional capacity, environmental organization work involves bureaucratic processes.

4) Identify three ways in which you will validate your project concept, technology, usability, and business model.

• Monitoring and evaluating the amount of traffic the permaculture park receives both on-site and virtually
• Maintaining relationships with the local community and partners past initial meetings to cultivate long-term connects
• Observing the productivity of yields and benefits to ensure they exceed time and labor

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 

1. How do we want to serve our community? 
2. How can we handle deer management? 
3. What kind of plants are we planting? 
4. What do we need to research beforehand about our target audience? 
5. What do we need to research about the plants we intend to grow? 
6. How can we work with Lehigh University to promote community and campus engagement? 
7. How can we measure community satisfaction with our project? 
8. What are the community needs of Bethlehem that the project can provide aid for? 
9. How do we build off of past teams’ ventures? 
10. How can we promote permaculture ethics and principles? 
11. Who can we partner with and how do we keep them engaged? 
12. What resources do we need? 
13. How can we promote sustainable consumption and voluntary simplistic living? 
14. How can we improve our online presence (website/social media, etc.)? 
15. Can we shift from a model permaculture park to an active community permaculture park? 
16. How can we engage local organizations?  
17. What are ways we can educate the local community about permaculture ethics and sustainable consumer behaviors? 
18. How can we encourage healthy lifestyles through permaculture ethics and principles? 
19. How can we effectively measure NPP?
20. 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 

2023 Project Goals & Outcomes

Faculty Mentors: David Casagrande & Al Wurth 

Students: Cate Adams, Emma Clopton, Isabelle Spirk, & Julie Wright 

SPRING 2023

Project Goals (Responsibilities)

1. Greenhouse & tool shed inventory evaluation & cleanup 
2. Website & social media: organization, aesthetics, grammatical errors, creating more educational content, activeness, creating interactive tools for community discussions.
3. Purchasing and planting seeds 
4. Deer management: considering solutions and developing a plan to handle deer maintenance 
5. Communications: getting more community engagement and growing awareness of the park

Research Goals (Responsibilities)

1. How to best handle/resolve deer management issues 
2. What crops are most needed in the Bethlehem community 
3. Seed/plant care, best environment/practices to help keep plants alive in the greenhouse as well as organizing the plants in the park in a way that satisfies their requirements and works with the landscape

Resources Needed

1. Partnerships with local community
2. Grant funding for planting seeds and expanding park projects

SUMMER 2023

Project Goals (Responsibilities)

1. Complete website updates
2. Host educational events with local Bethlehem community 
3. Updating Permaculture Park signage  
4. Build partnerships with local organizations (Rodale Institute) 

Research Goals (Responsibilities)

1. Measure Net Primary Productivity of park 
2. Testing park soil for nutrients and contaminants 
3. Measuring community satisfaction with park 

Resources Needed

1. Funding for miscellaneous park projects
2. Testing materials/measures for NPP and soil

FALL 2023

Project Goals (Responsibilities)

1. Expand upon use and understanding of Hugelkultur and it’s importance
2. Campus engagement 
3. Attend a conference 
4. Pollinator Garden 

Research Goals (Responsibilities)

1. Community engagement; looking into organizations in the Lehigh Valley area that would be willing to support our project
2. Exploring educational opportunities for younger kids with local middle school
3. Compost maintenance, measuring, general upkeep

Resources Needed

1. Partnerships with Lehigh organizations 
2. Funds for continuous park projects

Southside Permaculture Park Team Members: Cate Adams, Emma Clopton, Isabelle Spirk, & Julie Wright

Q1. What SDGs does your project target? What might be reasonable indicators for those SDGs?

SDG 1: Good Health and Well-Being (3)

Indicator 1 – Considering our People Care ethic: how our physical needs are met while maintaining and improving the health of our local ecosystems; healthy soil = healthy communities!

Indicator 2 – How many communities and schools can be educated about incorporating better foods and practices into everyday life and their diets 

SDG 2: Sustainable Cities and Communities (11) 

Indicator 1 – Accessibility and inclusivity of the permaculture park for people from different socio-economic statuses 

Indicator 2 – Awareness that people have of the park and amount of communities and organizations that are able to benefit from usage of the park 

SDG 3: Life On Land (15)

Indicator 1 – Earth Care: integrating the ethics of permaculture to work with our local ecosystem and maintain and improve environmental health 

Indicator 2 – Considering net primary productivity and intercropping to improve soil health, as well as halting the loss of biodiversity

Q2. Crystallize the larger challenge your venture seeks to address, the specific problems you are targeting, and the kinds of opportunities you hope to leverage.

Grand Challenge: Implementing sustainable practices in urban areas, in particular food deserts. Emphasizing the importance of sustainable consumption habits that consider the health of the local environment. 

Global (Mega) Trends: Climate change, rapid urbanization, rise of the individual and decline of social cohesion

Dream @ Context: Establishing a flourishing green space that is, for the most part, self-regulating and a welcoming environment for people within the community to access. Partnering with local organizations to support this dream, spread awareness, and increase accessibility to reliable sources of food

Specific Problems: Problems include lack of green space in urban areas; Lehigh Valley being a food desert, particularly Bethlehem; access to affordable & clean produce; maintaining & improving soil health; weather/natural hazards; deer/animals; insects; seasons/time constraints; obstacles surrounding the topography of land. 

Specific Opportunities: The ability to engage and form partnerships with the surrounding Bethlehem community, as well as educating ourselves about the cultural landscape of Bethlehem; educating individuals on the importance of composting and making sustainable consumer choices; breaking the negative barriers surrounding healthy eating to being enjoyable; opportunity for campus and student engagement. 

Q3. Identify the two most important social, economic, and environmental bottom lines that matter to your project.

Environmental: This bottom line matters to our project because it aligns with one of the key pillars of permaculture: Earth care. Permaculture works with the natural trends of the local environment to create a more productive and sustainable community. Through maintaining the local land and practicing sustainable agro techniques will improve the overall health of the local ecosystem. 

Social: The social bottom line is important to our project because our project presents an opportunity to bring the Lehigh Valley community together to promote permaculture and sustainable living and sustainable development. Permaculture requires ethics such as People Care and Fair Share and thus it is important that the park serves more than just a small number of people, but rather an entire community that can benefit from both the crops at the park and knowledge about adopting sustainable consumer behaviors into daily life.

Q4. Describe ten cultural factors that might impact your project at various phases in its lifecycle.

• Community relations: Lehigh University’s relationship with the Southside community can greatly influence our project.  Student, faculty, and staff perspectives and attitudes need to be taken into account when interacting with local residents.  Cultural dynamics will impact what the Lehigh Permaculture Park can accomplish when put into context of community and university relations.

• Courtesy & manners: People may be less likely to take food from the park because they are under the impression that the corps are not there for them, or that they shouldn’t take anything at all because someone may need it more. People may want to be polite and not take anything even though they would benefit from and are deserving of the food. 

• Food culture: How food is viewed by different ethnic groups and its influence on social and community well-being. Also, how food is used in different ethnic groups, in particular what is used/consumed most often. 

• Lifestyle & habits: Through emphasizing the ethics and principles of Permaculture, standard consumption habits influenced by corporate culture will be transformed. Through adopting the ethics and principles, people can shift to more sustainable consumer lifestyles, reducing waste, buying needs and less wants, recycling and composting, etc. 

• Fairness & Justice: The goal of our park is to ensure that people in the Lehigh Valley have access to healthy and nutritious food that can be incorporated into cultural diets, which aligns with critical environmental justice theory. However, cultural needs can change based on different situations and issues, and engaging the community to ensure that we are actively benefiting them through the park is an active process that cannot be completed once and then ignored. 

• Expectations: We live in a highly individualistic society, and people may subscribe to the expectations that they should work to buy and pay for their own food and ignore the needs of their collective community or the ways everyone can benefit from community spaces such as the permaculture park. This can be out of pressure to subscribe to social rules to take care of one’s self and only one’s self as opposed to focusing time and energy on an entire community. 

• Ancient agro practices: In permaculture, it is important to consider farming practices used by our ancestors, especially Indigenous peoples who maintained our native lands. Learning the practices used in the past, as well as understanding crops that grew successfully in the region, would best support the growth of the park. 

• Art/aesthetics: Art, design, and aesthetics might influence the Permaculture Park project as our team will need to incorporate user design principles into not only the park design itself like considering the aesthetics of the park’s entrance sign but also into online platforms including our social media and website.  
• Food as medicine: Healing your gut microbiome through conscious consumption. Switching to consuming food that is organic and locally grown that nourishes your body and mind. Food is a natural preventative medicine and by making conscious choices about your plate will improve overall health and wellness of people and influence communities at large. 
• Education: How people come to view themselves and their place within nature. Emphasizing the importance of clean, responsibly sourced food while also acknowledging our dependence and reliance on Earth’s natural ecosystem processes.

Q5. Give three examples of cultural practices that can be leveraged to address community/market problems.           

1. Determining concerns, preferences, and perspectives of local residents through community engagement
2. Advertising the park appropriately so that our target communities are aware of the park and are able to use it 
3. Making the website more inclusive and globally accessible by translating the site’s pages into other languages.