posted 12 years ago
Hi! I'm Heidi and just got started here. I've recently been indoctrinated into the doomer cult (climate change/economic insolvency/peak everything) and am now interested in permaculture and transition-type movements as a way of softening my impact and getting back to the natural world from which I have been too-long severed. I'm now in North Central Vermont and loving every second of it. I'm a Registered Nurse (want to be a writer, but that's not exactly a steady gig compared to the other). I'm currently enrolled in a three-year herbalist training program. Ongoing projects are: Learning how to grow food (intrigued by the idea of edible forest gardens as well as the work of Masanobu Fukuoka...I used to live in Japan and do speak/read Japanese so the juxtaposition of those two interests really excites me), learning natural building (love cob), growing mushrooms (medicinal and edible), and growing and making herbal medicine. I'm also interested in intentional communities. As a nurse and future herbalist I feel like I have a lot to contribute to a community. I love reading (there are never enough books), rock climbing, hiking, snowshoeing, singing, and writing. I am also an ethical vegan and have been so for over two years.
“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
― Wendell Berry
Welcome here, looking forward to your additions to Permies!
