Newbie member from WA

Good day to y'all. I can't say that we've ever wrapped our hands around the term 'permaculture' or described ourselves in that way. But I will describe us in this way: we live far off grid with the closest thing to a utility being satellite technology. We possess land on the north facing side of a 1100' deep forested canyon accessible by an old commonly maintained steep logging trail through private land. It was raw when we started and we planned that there would never be any services and am sure there never will be any. We produce our power via solar for 9 months of the year and supplement the solar with a generator the other remaining months. We have good water via a water well with a AC/DC pump. Heat is wood of which is 40% Ponderosa, 40% Doug Fir and 20% Oregon Oak. We built from scratch to retire here which we have done at this point, if it can be called retirement....

We raise Kune Kune / American Guinea pigs and have geese, chickens, ducks and Guinea hens (part of our security system). Also, we have Zeus, our Nigerian billy and two Catahoula dogs. We produce as much as we can from the land but we are in the rain shadow of the Cascades so that lack of rainfall makes diversity of plants for food a bit of a continuing challenge that changes each year. 1/2 of us is an endangered species biologist and the other an engineer, machinist, mechanic and builder of things. All in all we are able to stay fairly self sufficient except for the fuel for equipment and a little bit of propane.

Today I was looking up the actual gray water rules in WA and came across Permies for a pretty good thread and conversation. So I hope to learn from the membership here and maybe can help with a few contributions.

Be well, J&M

Welcome! You sound like you have a lovely homestead.