introductions thread

I wrote an article for Permaculture magazine about the way the forums up here have been a benefit to isolated smallholders, enabling us all to meet, share ideas, swap our produce and skills and help one another with projects. I will start a thread and post a link to it in a few months time once it is a 'back issue'. They put past articles on their facebook site....assuming they use it on there. If not, I'll show it to you somehow. It explains everything and will save me writing it all again.

If it helps - we have a permies pedia (place for permaculture articles) you can send me your article and I can add it to the pedia and place a link to it.  Then people can read it and post their questions or comments ....

Here's a link to the wiki-pedia  https://permies.com/wiki/index.php

~Jami

30y/o, married 8+yrs, father of 2 toddlers, self employed mobile mechanic, 1 city acre for the last 3 years, some steep east facing hills, just got into permaculture after learning about rocket mass stoves, which I hope to build this year.  So far gardens each year, added 10 fruit trees, a variety of others, started some terraces and roads on the hilly parts after clearing a lot of problem trees and brush.  Can't wait to try making swales, hugelculture, and guilds this year!

Finding a good picture of yourself when you are always the one taking the pics is hard.  This is one my wife snapped while I was working making sunlight for my fruit trees.

Great portrait shot!  Now there's a tree person! 

No portraits that I can come up with on short notice.  Greetings everyone.  I'm in my mid 40's, network systems engineering type.  Father of two children married for 26 years.  Avid brewer  but still learning the art.  I also brew wine and mead.  Oh and I live in not so sunny (at the moment) New Hampshire on a semi-rural acre.

I've been an on and off gardener for the last 10 years since we saddled ourselves with this mortgage.  The projects I hope to tackle are grey water recycling, perhaps a RMH, solar and/or wind power.  And of course hopefully start putting some permaculture techniques into practice to reclaim my garden.  I have two folorn looking russet apple trees that I'm going to try to bring back from the dead.

Hopefully this year I can tear away my daughter from her wii.  We just killed the cable tv .... forever 

Welcome Icewalker  

Thanks for introducing yourself.

Good luck with that daughter thing.... maybe try baby animals this spring, nothing sweeter than a duckling!

Hi everyone,

23 yr old regional airline pilot, grew up on a small hobby farm but haven't taken care of anything other than a couple houseplants since leaving for college. I might have the (dis)honor of being the northernmost North American member of this forum, deep in the boreal forest of central Canada (wahoo zone 0b!). Found this forum while bored at work, been catching up on threads and youtube videos about PC with fascination ever since. It has me dreaming of owning a plot of land, raising a family with my better half in the Canadian prairies, or moving back to the family home to SE Ontario. For now though, I guess I'll stick to my ice-covered apartment windows and look forward to the ice breakup in mid-April/May for the fishing season to start...

Fishing, aquarium-keeping, canoeing,camping and hiking are past-times of mine, to name a few.

Oh, and I do credit this website with many sleepless nights with a racing imagination. Especially last night  (or is it  ?)

Hey all,

New member here.  I've been hanging out at Backwoods Home Magazine's forums.  Paul Wheaton posted a link to a video there, which led me to YouTube, which led me to permies.com, and I'm loving it.  Maybe I didn't search hard enough, but all I've found at the library and online about PC has been all theory/philosophy, with no practical info.  I'm soaking up the great info, here.  I'm also interested in coppicing, and have found more about that here than I had in numerous searches online.

Last summer, we bought a newish log house on 3 acres in Central Missouri.  2ac are meadow, 1 is woods.  The house is oriented East-West for solar gain.  (A must in my house searching - I just looked at where the satellite dish was mounted and knew if I wanted to look at it). 

Short term plans include a green house on the on the South side of our home, permanent raised garden beds, rabbits and chickens.  The house had been stripped of copper, so I didn't get the garden or greenhouse started last fall, as I was busy working on the house.  I did get a wood stove installed, though.  Between the thermal mass of the logs and solar gain, it usually just takes a fire in the morning to take the chill off, and the house coasts the rest of the day on heat from cooking, the sun, and a space heater under my desk in the basement  (that doesn't include recent days in the teens *F).  We're very happy with our new place.

Getting ready for spring, I've already bought the greenhouse film, 20yds of compost to kick-start the garden and have started on the chicken tractor.  I've also ordered 75 native fruit and nut trees and bushes from my Dept of Conservation, which will become an edible hedge and will block the view of the house from the road.  Disease resistant dwarf apple trees and a 'SweetHeart' apricot are in my shopping cart, right now.  The SweetHeart has edible pits, similar to almonds.  And, of course, I'll have to fence the garden and orchard.

Longer term plans include a root cellar and a cool pantry in the basement, a pond and a barn, a permanent greenhouse, and yet more fencing and PC hedges.

I look forward to learning and sharing on permies.  Nice to be here.