A local project · St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
Make something useful close to home.
OverDevelopment connects a for-profit shop to small, publicly documented local experiments. Edible Commons will receive the first funding.
The public pledge
$2,000 net shop profit → $500 for local projects
For every $2,000 in net profit generated by the OverDevelopment shop, $500 will be dedicated to local projects.
Net profit means money remaining after normal and legitimate shop expenses are paid. Edible Commons will receive the first funding under this commitment.
The Shop is a for-profit part of OverDevelopment. It supports the continued work behind the project while also generating income through product sales.
Edible Commons
FIRST APPLICATION ROUND BEING PREPARED
Part pantry, part park and part outdoor classroom.
No hub has been selected. Applications are not yet open.
Edible Commons aims to turn underused, publicly accessible land into places where people can learn about, harvest and use edible plants.
01Produce genuinely useful food.
02Teach people how to recognize, prepare, value and use locally available edible plants.
The Shop
Sometimes the shortest message fits on a magnet.
Take the message into public.
On a shirt, a car, a yard or a kitchen shelf, these products become conversation starters—small ways to make local problems harder to ignore.
The Shop is a for-profit part of OverDevelopment. Product sales support the work behind the project, with $500 dedicated to local projects for every $2,000 in net shop profit.
VISIT THE SHOPA STANDARD FOR GROWTH
Growth should make a place more capable, not merely more consumed.
The larger inquiry
What have we developed past?
OverDevelopment asks what progress gives us, what it replaces and what it makes harder to do without.
St. Tammany makes that question concrete: subdivisions, filled wetlands, disappearing tree lines, long drives, food dependence, drainage problems and infrastructure that always seems to need one more lane.
Land is not empty just because it has not been built on.
Pelican Watch and other work
Criticism is only half the job.
WORKING PUBLIC TOOL
Pelican Watch
Pelican Watch makes local government records and public decisions easier to find, examine and understand. It is the observational side of the larger work.