How long have you been a permie?

Hi y'all. Tomorrow will mark my 6 year anniversary here at permies. I've learned so much and have a very different life since my discovery of this wonderful place. I found permies as I began researching the life I wanted when I arrived wherever my youngest landed with a shared dream of homesteading.  That ended up being in western West Virginia! Up in the hills the locals think of as mountains! Narrow, windy roads; clay soil on limited flat land (steep hollers on both sides of the roads). Very different from Southern California beaches and deserts.

I am working towards having enough growing space (hugel and raised beds) to feed the 8 of us (daughters family is 6). We are raising rabbits and chickens (14 laying hens and a roo) on my 4 acre, and my daughter has a small flock of ducks and rabbits on her 36+ acres.

How long have you been here, and what brought you?

I see myself as a homesteader and not a Permie.  Not that I have anything against being a Permie. Maybe the point is that being a Permie is the destination I am always traveling toward.

As for this site, I signed on the fall of 2017.

I've been crazy about permaculture for 20 years and this year will be my 12th year on Permies.  I came to interact with all the lovely folks here.....and sometimes to drop a couple bad jokes.