Permaculture community in Olympia? and hello from a new permie

Hi permies,

I'm a teacher moving to Olympia in a few weeks to teach at The Evergreen State College for the next two school years.
I'm a permaculture and composting enthusiast, and I'm renovating a house in Detroit currently and in the summertimes, building up skills and inspiration to build my own tiny cabin / house.

Is there community land near Evergreen in Olympia where a permie can rent  a place to live or work / trade as a way for new members to join and get to know the land and its inhabitants? I've lived in a shipping container with limited solar power and had to haul in my own water before, so I'm okay without a lot of creature comforts, and okay with helping to build more facilities for everyone who lives on land.

Paul

Welcome Paul:
I will be so near and yet so far.   People have a hard time understanding the geography here and AI refuses to consider anything but a circle around a dot on the map.  I am on a long peninsula running from North to South and you will probably be on the peninsula running from south to north so we may be less than ten miles apart but 90 miles to drive from one to the other.  Can you live on a boat?  That is one inexpensive option for this area.  In that case you could just move your habitat to the park dock during school breaks and be in walking distance of my farm.

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Hi Paul and welcome to Permies! I hope you find yourself a place that suits.

Hans Quistorff wrote:Welcome Paul:
I will be so near and yet so far.   People have a hard time understanding the geography here and AI refuses to consider anything but a circle around a dot on the map.  I am on a long peninsula running from North to South and you will probably be on the peninsula running from south to north so we may be less than ten miles apart but 90 miles to drive from one to the other.  Can you live on a boat?  That is one inexpensive option for this area.  In that case you could just move your habitat to the park dock during school breaks and be in walking distance of my farm.

Thanks for the suggestion and hello neighbor. I didn't consider living on a boat until now, but compared with land buying and rent prices, it would be roughly equivalent to get a used yacht and rent a slip in a marina. Hmm...

I will keep looking into it and developing plans, and in any case, would love to visit your farm.

Nancy Reading wrote:Hi Paul and welcome to Permies! I hope you find yourself a place that suits.

Thank you, I'll post more here and see if there is any interest in a land trust / cabin-village-building collective, as I build my chops, (or chop by builds? no) in this area.

Thanks for the suggestion and hello neighbor. I didn't consider living on a boat until now, but compared with land buying and rent prices, it would be roughly equivalent to get a used yacht and rent a slip in a marina.

example
https://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/boa/d/olympia-cascade-42-hs/7659901554.html

Greetings,
I have acreage in S.Tacoma. PM me to discuss.