how did you find out about permies.com?

I read an article about the SKIP program in Mother Earth News Magazine last spring.

Someone announced it at a meeting I was at, don’t remember where, but a big crowd of people, over 15 years ago.  I now post the link now and then in our farm newsletter which goes out to over 400 people worldwide.  All to get the word out and reach more people to save the planet!

For me, I honestly don’t remember, it was loong time ago…

It would be interesting to know how people hear about us these days.

paul wheaton wrote:I'm trying to be a good site steward and get the word out about this site.   Naturally, some things I try turn out to be really lame.  And other things turn out to be really smart.

How did you find us? 

I found Permies by doing something I thought I'd never do.  I asked A.I. for an active, friendly Off-grid and Homesteading forum.  The first one I tried wasn't friendly at all.  I was attacked in my Introduction post and followed for two days after that, being harassed.  I left.

I checked out some of the other websites but they weren't active at all.  After going down the list, I finally checked out Permies and haven't looked back.  This site is most of what I was hoping to find in a forum and I'm grateful.  That's why I'm responding to this 15 year old post!

I've been in and out of the online world over the years. I do like searching topics and finding threads to sponge up any info I can. Recently this round of wanting to find like minded people lead me here and I made an account right away. I knew people were into smart practices about working along side nature. Having this well established online community of sharing information gives me some hope. I'm still sitting on a collection of seeds for my climate and no current farming buddies yet. The past few years, veggies from the grocery store go bad right away (or rather they were never really good to begin with). I do grow my tiny container garden just to learn and do. I think having in ground perennial plants are the way to be though. Where they can seed themselves and even spread. The forums brought me here and are the reason I signed up.
~~~~~~Thank you to all who have kept this online spot up and running!~~~~~~~~
And the bonus of freedom of keyboard and html and such, really fun and cool!

I was looking for some info to help me with some land I own......everything needed for small farm startup....  which animals, plants, equipment needed to get me rolling

A fellow gardener told me, years ago, not about this site, but permaculture. He ( or, I should say they)
taught me about hugelkultur, too.

I was searching for random homesteading topics and was fed up with generic google answers. So for every search i started putting 'forum' in the search, then i ended up here a couple of different times. I think around the same time I was also getting some Paul Wheaton shorts on youtube. And since many things he was talking about made sense (I think it was mostly RMH, because I was looking into that as well) I was watching him more on youtube. Later I realised that the forum google was sending me to was actually made by Paul.

I was looking for info on cold hardy citrus and found.    https://permies.com/t/20777/Cold-hardy-citrus-trees

13 years ago, I was container gardening and learning about tomato blossom end rot and a duckduckgo internet search led me to permies. It was years later that I actually registered and started participating, but then I was mostly offline.

I'm somewhat new here, so was surprised that a thread from 16 years ago was still alive and kicking.
I arrived here when I was researching the dye plants used in South American Cultures and someone was asking about Pepper tree as a dye source (Schinus molle that is).  Since I was about to trial it, a conversation started.  Then I found other subjects that were of interest, and so, here I am still learning.

I can't recall the when, why, how

but I think I wandered in from some Kickstarter

or I was searching for advice and then-formerly-friendly-Google suggested something
and you needed to join in order to reply . . . probably this.

I found it from an email from one of the permiculture homesteading families. Probably something on one of Justin Rhodes vlogs. Don't really remember, but glad I did as I have learned a lot from here.

Looks like I registered Sep 05, 2014 (goodness that’s a long time ago). At that time, I would have been driving 600 miles a week for work, and desperate for something to listen to in the car. So, I probably started listening to the Permies podcast and then signed up for the website.

My Oldest Son took - and Passed - Bill's Course, taught by Geoff - and ref'd permies.com in some of his comms to me about the whole ball of kale..

And many arduous months / a Very Grievous Heartbreak / recuperation, later.. I joined. Loving it here, thus far - have learned SO much (and just how little I Knew..)

Proving that, indeed, you Can 'Teach an Old Dog new tricks'.

I'll ask him if I can post-up his 'Final Exam' Perm-Plans - all hand drawn, and Excellently-Well thought out.

In 2019 or so i started my Alice-in-Wonderland deep dive into ways of growing more food on less land, trying to plan on feeding about 10 people. Much of the available information was linked to Permies.com and I liked what i was reading and seeing here.

I asked what seemed to me to be newbie questions about stuff I'd never heard or thought of and was greeted by friendly welcomes and lots of reply. I felt seen, accepted. Getting apples on posts encouraged me to continue in my own vein.

I've posted a link to Permies.com a number of times elsewhere.  I've told people about the site as i explain what hugelkultur and permaculture are to those who only know the concrete jungle! I believe in this "place".