What Can I Give You?

Hello- My name is Matthew.  I am a sustainability entrepreneur and permaculturist- I've practiced for most of my adult life, and I'm looking for some new projects.  So, that brings me to you: what do you all need?  What is lacking in the Permaculture world?  If there is demand for it, I can set up just about anything... a specialty nursery?  A meeting place?  School?  Permie Lab? Credit Union?  Supper Club?  World Domination Checklist?  What is it you all need?  Tell me what you're missing, and for that matter ask your friends and family too.  The more ideas the better, and comment on each other's ideas too... I have an uncanny talent for integrating seemingly unrelated ideas, so nothing is too far afield... and, as we all know, sustainability comes from a dozen nested systems within the overarching plan.    

Just think of this thread as your Permaculture magic lamp... and I'm your genie  

Hi Matthew,

What I would like most is more high quality, affordable bareroot permaculture nurseries that ship in fall and carry locally adapted plants of good stock.

Hi Matthew!

I need an easy system to tune heat flows in a passive solar home. Earth berm on one side, greenhouse on the other.  

The problem is that the system will almost never been in ideal thermal balance. The greenhouse is always producing too much or too little, and the house always needs either cooling or heating, and the plants in the greenhouse may need something else.

So you end up with a 4x2 grid of possibilities. See the attached image.
 To meet those needs, there are cooling tubes through the berm, greenhouse vents, and you can drop some greenhouse window shades to reduce incoming sun...are those enough to fill out the whole chart?  Am I overthinking this?

What I want is a way to map my property, mark plants and then track yields and uses over years.

Best would be if I could mark off the lines from a satellite image. Let it keep the orientation info so shade, sun and light angles and timing would be available. Be able to box off and mark buildings. Then expand in and create and fill in geometric shapes and label them as specific plants, so it needs to be able to go down quite small. Perhaps layers where you step down into beds that can be filled in with more details.
Be able to mark perennials and trees and fill in their ages and specific varieties. I'm sure being able to add it pollination types and timing would be helpful for lots of orchard types too. Then make notes for each year about pruning, feeding, issues and production and be able to sort back through the years as time goes on.
Since I'm dreaming, options to create layers or tools that would show how possible things could fit/work in the space. Like you could select a beehive and move it around on the map and it would show an overlay of their typical collection range.

I feel permaculture practices still need someone to speak up.

We need folks to schedule talks to the community, talks at schools, ect.

I kind of like your mention of a supper club.  What a great way to get the word out.

We need someone to actively be putting out social media every single day on TikTok, Youtube, Instagram etc with easy links to places where folks can find resources to build stoves, grow food, and just generally live permaculture (here at Permies and elsewhere).
I agree with Anne, we also need a social presence in real life.