new here -- Central Texas permie

Howdy all!

If you are living in or visiting the central Texas area, please reach out.   I'm in Salado and I sell native plants at area farmer's markets.   I'm finishing up an off-grid permaculture demonstration garden on a 1/4 acre in the area; and moving to a 30 acre site to hopefully build out a regenerative production food forest.  We love visitors, so come on out if you are in the area.   Camping sites and volunteer ops available too!

We are building out plant propagation stations, rainwater collection, hugel piles, composting, spreading wood chips ... all kinds of fun stuff!

you can follow me  @salado_plant_traders on mastodon.social for pictures

Welcome to Permies! With Hill County Natives closed I'm glad to see you're keeping the central Texas native plants trade alive. I live on the south side of Austin but I'll give you a shout when I plan to be up in your area. When you settle on your 30 acre property are you planning on hosting any permablitzes?  

Permablitzes ... educate me ... sounds fun.

We are definitely trying to get the word out about the site.   30 acres is a lot of work for just 2 people so far.

James Bradford wrote:Permablitzes ... educate me ... sounds fun.

A permaculture oriented work party. Often they involve earthworks and/or tree/shrub planting but I've also been to ones where we installed rain water catchment and earthen floors. Usually, activities are labor intensive and low skill. Typically the host provides lunch and sometimes there's a speaker or too. It's a good way to meet other people in the permaculture community.

Pre-pandemic there were about half dozen permablitzes a year in the central Texas area and it's slowly picking back up.