My family also live in the Indianapolis area, having grown up here but recently having moved back here from Alaska... and my introduction to permaculture was by Swiss friends in Switzerland (2014) via Sepp Holzer materials, while learning to make organic cheese on their alp farm.
That being said, I deeply feel and sympathize with your struggle, because I also know how indifferent people in Indiana are to permaculture living and ecological protection / environmentalism in general.
In order to be the change I want to see, I’m returning to university at age 37 to study sustainable / renewable energy engineering via Purdue at IUPUI.
All this said, It will be at least 1-3 years before my family are able to buy a permaculture property; but I am ecstatic to find others are DOING it here.
