Who we are

PorchSide Ecology is a residential urban renewal and resilience project in downtown San Jose. Currently the focus is to bring our own home(stead) into better balance with the local ecology, while providing our family of two with at least half of our fresh food requirements. As part of our expirement, we are including others to collaborate with us on the design and implementation in order to provide hands on learning experiences for our community.

Planned Projects:

Rammed Earth Pizza Oven (almost complete)

Lawn replacement - california natives (in process)

Backyard Food Forest and garden (just beginning)

Laundry to Landscape greywater system

Thanks to all who joined us for our recent Water Harvesting and Earthworks workshop!

How we use water can have a deep impact on our own landscape and our local ecology. See the course presentation above for examples and great resources.