Hi all!

Hi everyone! My name is Zohie and I'm happy to join up here. Great-grandparents on both sides were Otis's, but that got pissed away after their kids left for town. I want to take that back up, even as a hobby farm, both to honor them and to give my family better than what I had.

Anything productive isn't in the cards right now since I'm stuck in an apartment, so the main goal at this point is harm reduction. Vinegar for cleaning, more ingredients than processed food, just normie/muggle things. Even when I do get a house, odds are I'll have to settle for some HOA-surveilled postage stamp with neighbors that spray gick like water. Trying not to be a doomer about that, but things are harder than they need to be.

But things on the consumption-end can be managed, at least, and the Little Way is often the most fruitful. I'll do what I can with PEA, mushrooms would be the only things I could grow for instance. Just glad to be here and happy to help out as needed. Thanks all and looking forward to learning with you!

Hi Zohie,

Welcome and best wishes for permie-ing your life and apartment. 8 years ago I was living in a little apartment, and began growing much of herbs, greens, lettuces and chard  on the kitchen countertop with grow lights underneath the upper cabinets, and on the front entrance of my 2nd floor walkup.  And it worked really well... I kept studying... learned about permaculture, regenerative agriculture, so many classes and books... and bought property in 2025, now living off grid full time.  Follow your creativity and interests and inspirations - it takes you places you never could have predicted!

Good luck!

Kara Ann wrote:

Welcome and best wishes for permie-ing your life and apartment. 8 years ago I was living in a little apartment, and began growing much of herbs, greens, lettuces and chard  on the kitchen countertop with grow lights underneath the upper cabinets, and on the front entrance of my 2nd floor walkup.  

Thank you for the well wishes, Kara Ann! And glad you were able to have that growing set-up in your apartment. I just hope anything would grow in this air, I'm hemmed in on both sides by neighbors who smoke all the time and not sure if even an air purifier would help it. Cut flowers die in a day, I swear, with unchlorinated water and plenty of sun. Thank you for the idea!