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The videos are getting better every time.  Great work!

It's increases as it's getting harder and harder to win at youtube.  Fewer people have time to watch and the system increasingly favours drama over content.   Thanks for choosing quality first.

These are great interviews!   Thanks for sharing.

Of the RMH I've seen, the one from this last interview is my favourite.   Simple lines makes it more accessible.

Thanks.  I wish they could have said that on their site.  It makes a big difference how we can use the site.

Very interesting site

The site goes on about "northern" and "here".  Where is that?  Not knowing makes it hard to use the resource.  The dates don't add up to European history, so I'm guessing north america?  

Today was my garlic planting day.  We usually try to get it in last month, but the soil was too dry.  Today the soil was fairly warm, but had some moisture from a heavy due so it felt like the right day for it.

Over the years, there's been a lot of people asking for a donate button here on permies. Paul made a big thread about different ways to donate to the empire. But, what if you want a simple easy way to donate to permies?

We've got you covered! Here on permies, we have a thing called PIE. It stands for "Permaculture Inner-circle Elite." It's a direct thing way to support the site, and it comes with lots of tasty perks!



How buying PIE helps permies:

Running a site like permies costs money, even with an all volunteer staff of moderators. Here's some of the costs a site like this incurs:

• The server bill! While Paul owns the server, there's a heafty bill for bandwidth every month.
• Bandwidth for permies (and all the images it hosts) is about $200 to $300 per month, average.  
• Locating and fixing glitches to keep permies running smoothly
• New developments for the site. If you'd love, say, an improved mobile version, buying pie is a great way to support it!

What's so great about permies?

Permies is the largest permaculture forum on the web. It is a place full of helpful advice and years of knowledge. We're a community of people focused on supporting and helping one another. And in the process, we've created and stored a lot of knowledge and pictures. Here's just some of the reasons that permies is special:

• People like you! Permies is full of nice, helpful people like you that are focused on solutions, rather than being weighed down by the gunk of the world
• Permies is free! We're a forum devoted to building perennial knowledge and helping one another. This knowledge is out there for the world to find--not hidden behind a paywall
• We're focused on building a better world and transforming it through permaculture and homesteading. This is our mission, and we've shared knowledge with millions of people!
• Permies covers a wide range of subjects, everything from earthbag buildings to textile tools to llamas. If you have a permaculture or homesteading question, chances are, we have a forum for it!

What's in it for you?

Instead of permies just having a donate button where you give money and receive warm-fuzzy feelings in return, we have a donate button that not only gives you the warm fuzzies, it also gives you cool perks! Perks like:

Three thumbs-up! Really like a post? Now you can give it two-thumbs up!

A thumbs-down button! Even facebook doesn't give you a thumbs-down button, but permies does!

The ability to give pie away, and send a little message in the process. Do you think someone's post is really impressive and want to thank them? Now you can send them a personal message saying thank you! See someone having a hard day? You can send them a piece of pie with a heartfelt message to brighten it. Or you can chose to send the pie anonymously. There's lots of options!

"The Green Line"--this is a little green line that shows you what post you last read in a thread, so it's easy to skim and find where you last read! This is a huge time-saver!

"Go to first unread post" -- you can choose to have it so when you open a thread, you're instantly taken to the first unread post. No more scrolling to find it!

Remove ads! Hate seeing those pesky ads? Hate how they make it longer for the page to load (or use up bandwidth), now you can turn them off. And, you can turn off those tiny ads in your emails, too!

Exclusive content! There's quite a few goodies tucked away in the PIE Only forum, and more on the way!

Exclusive private forum hidden away from google! Have a question you'd like to ask, but don't want google knowing about it? Post it in PIE Only!

And much, much, MUCH more! Check out all the benefits HERE!

If you're wanting to support permies.com and keep it running strong--and get some awesome perks in the process--buy some slices of pie!

Permaculture is about understanding why and attempting to work more symbiotically with nature so that these plants can be healthier and more productive with less water, fertilizer and effort.

I love this definition gives us what it is, instead of what it isn't.

So many books, blogs, and videos, spend time complaining about what permaculture is fighting against, they forget to tell me what it is and how we can use it.

From this definition, we can build practical solutions.

paul wheaton wrote:The more gardening you do now, the sooner the world will be saved.

Agreed!

I would say more, but my garden calls.

My winters squash harvest is in and so far, it's 100% delicious!

All the squash this year is grown from grocery store squash we saved the seeds before cooking.   Then if the squash was especially delicious, we washed the seeds and dried them for planting.

Welcome to permies! Permies is a place for gentle souls to discuss permaculture and homesteading, all the time. It is a community, as well as a forum that is rich with wealth of information and assistance--made possible by lovely people like YOU!



Permies was started by Paul Wheaton in 2005, but this was not his first rodeo in managing forums! As a software engineer, he’d been managing forums way back in the 90s. Yes, there were forums back then--they just looked quite a bit different! In 2000, he took over Code Ranch, a forum devoted to java and other types of programming. You can find out more about those early forums HERE!



After he gained his Master Gardener certification in 1997, he wanted to learn even more and share what he knew, but the existing permaculture and homesteading forums just weren’t a good fit. He had his own website, richsoil.com where he shared articles about everything from cast iron to chickens to diatomaceous earth. But, he wasn’t about to stop there. He made a youtube channel and his made his own forums--these very same ones!

The forum is owned by Paul, who pays the bills to keep permies running, and it runs in the red (you can Buy some PIE, purchase or sell something on the digital market, advertise on permies, or feed the empire in other ways to help keep permies up and running!).



Permies is run by over 100 volunteers, who are chosen to be moderators because of their niceness and passion to help others. Our volunteer staff (called gardeners and stewards ) lovingly squish spam, answer questions, and share their knowledge. By working together, they make this site a safe place for gentle souls to talk about permaculture and homesteading, without being lambasted by trolls and people who "know better." For more on how permies.com works, check out our Frequently Asked Questions.