Indiana Permies where are you?

Thank you for the great information!

We are buying our perma farm this fall, and we too are moving from Alaska.

Any tips on fall planting and quick set ups? Excited to get started.

People checking out this post may be interested in this:

Herbal Syrups and Smudges for Respiratory Health

Saturday, September 19, 2020 at 2 PM – 5 PM

Burdock House welcomes community herbalist Greg Monzel from Wild
Persimmon School of Wellness for an afternoon of plant medicine.
Following introductions, we begin with a weeds walk and gathering
herbs. Greg demonstrates making an herbal-infused syrup with local
honey, which everyone gets to take home. We then wrap and tie bundles
of red cedar for smudging, and all along the way we share ancient and
contemporary natural remedies to promote respiratory health. This
outdoor workshop is mask-optional with social distancing enforced;
snacks, refreshments, and restrooms are available.

Greg Monzel is a community herbalist and forager with a gift for
nourishing deep connections between people and plants. He has been a
practicing herbalist, medicine maker and grower since 2008. Greg
co-founded Wild Persimmon School of Wellness, an Indianapolis-based
herb school and yoga studio, and is a pathways instructor at White
Pine Wilderness Academy in herbalism, foraging, and plant
identification (East Pathway).

Cost is $30/person, if paid by the end of the day of Saturday
September 12. Cost is $35 after that date. Cost includes smudge and
syrup for each participant to take home. In the case of storms, we
will cancel and issue refunds.

Please contact Josh Medlin (White River Shiatsu) with any questions!
joshnettlesm@gmail.com
phone:
317   652   six  one 09

Hi All. I'm just south of Fort Wayne, Indiana. I was raised on a small farm in Michigan. We raised chickens and pigs. Also had a big garden. Looking  to get back to my roots and become more self sustaining. I am a single 58 year young female with a small dog.

Hi all,Megan here.
Just moved to Indianapolis, IN. I’m new to growing in this climate. Moved from 7B-8.
I’m curious if Paw Paw will grow here?
I’m looking for free or inexpensive resources … wood chips, other mulch, and compost. I’m working on a tight budget. I like to barter
I’m looking forward to getting to know everyone!

Hi Indiana Permies,

I see the last post is about 3 years ago so I don't know whether anyone still checks this site.  But I have a request.

If anyone sees this who understands growing and preparing food in the permaculture way, and who would be willing to make about 30-50 meal boxes on June 1, 2023 for delivery to a charter busload in Indianapolis IN, please contact me.

I will be organizing a charter bus expedition from Columbus OH through Indianapolis and Terre Haute to St. Louis, then to the Okie Homesteading Expo in Pryor OK.  My family attended last year's inaugural event and had a great time!  This year they are expanding to two days and I want to take some Midwestern permaculture enthusiasts there!  

I need to feed the people quality home-grown food instead of relying on fast food.  I will pay per meal prepared, boxed, and delivered as we come through for our Indianapolis pickup of passengers at 12:30 pm.  

The pick-up point will be on I-465 on the southern side of Indy.   Can anybody do this meal?  

There will be a second meal needed on the way back, Sunday, June 4 at 12:00 noon, by either the same person or another.

My name is Gramps McGrumpus and you can contact me at GrampsMcGrumpus@gmail.com.  (I just opened that account for this project so you will probably be among the first to post there.  It will grow considerably between now and June.)

Gramps  

Let me know, also, if you want to consider being a passenger!  I'll send details for your information.  

Hi Megan,
Just saw your post.  Yes, pawpaw grows here and in fact the neighborhoodplantingproject.org distributes them and other native fruit trees for free across the state.  Good luck!
Francis

WOW! All of us Hoosiers must really be stuck in the mud!    
The last post in this forum was 9 years ago and there are several from 10 years ago!
Hope all the rest of you are still up and around and  well. I live in Hartford City (East Central IN).

SO, what have you been doing for the last 10 years?

For myself, I had been teaching at Ivy Tech Community College for several years, mostly at Marion, but occasionally in Muncie, and about every other year had a class in Anderson, but I quit about 5 years ago. It was so busy as the home, garage, and shed were unattended, but the garden grew in importance.

I've built 4 ea 3 ft X 15 ft raised beds using cement blocks and 4 ea 4 ft X 4 ft using 2" X 12" boards. I also bought and set up 3 ea large 16 ft cattle panels in arches that are 4 ft wide and 4 ft apart and in a line. The cement block raised beds get all of the veggie plantings, the wooden raised beds get either potatoes or summer gourds and any weird plants that I see and want to try out.

Along with those I have several trees in the back of my property with a couple of more Apple trees coming sometime this week. I made a divider strip between those and my middle portion of lawn to grow flowers for my bees. I have one Langstroth Hive and the supers were so heavy on the hive that I went to a Layens Horizontal Hive where the heaviest items besides the hive itself is maybe a 10 lb frame of honey.

I also have, now, 8 Elderberry plants which are of 4 different Elderberry bushes/trees. This past year I trimmed those and dug up all of the start-ups coming off the roots, potted those and had to give all of those away as people just weren't that interested in them. Oh, sorry, I did donate 4 sets of 2 different varieties to our Metal Detectors group to auction of for building funds for our yearly 'seeded hunt' at an old school.

Also, last year I started an Electro-Culture Project in my garden where I had an Open Garden Day for this and attendance was NOT great! I made the copper coils, winding those on a home made mandrel. Those go into a wooden plug to hold them in place on top of a 10 ft. thick wall 1" PVC pipe that goes 9' to 11" in the ground with packed earth around it to hold it up. A copper wire is soldered to the coil at the top of the pole, dropped down with Ty Wraps holding it and that is soldered to wires buried in my beds and lawn about 5-6 inches down. The 'current' comes from the ether (the air - think - where your radio signals come from) and runs down the wire and under the plants. This is supposed to give the plants a great boost in health and growing of the plants.

I haven't decided yet what this years 'weird project' is going to be - but I usually wind up with at least one. Some of this came about by growing various Herbs in one other raised bed devoted just to the Herbs.

Hello,i am in south central Indiana! 13 acres offgrid, using rainwater catchment, small solar, and humanure systems, small dugout "fridge" and fermentation to preserve food. Planted some fruit and nut trees but nothing from them yet. There are some native fruits and nuts but not enough to shake a stick at, so I leave them for the deer and squirrels.

In the spirit of the last few posts on this thread, I'm heading down to Bloomington in a few minutes to pick up some free paw paw trees from an annual tree giveaway.  Meli, your situation sounds fantastic. It sounds like you have a great permie life going.

j

Meli Mot wrote:Hello,i am in south central Indiana! 13 acres offgrid, using rainwater catchment, small solar, and humanure systems, small dugout "fridge" and fermentation to preserve food. Planted some fruit and nut trees but nothing from them yet. There are some native fruits and nuts but not enough to shake a stick at, so I leave them for the deer and squirrels.

I'm heading there in a few minutes!

j

Francis Laurel wrote:Hi Megan,
Just saw your post.  Yes, pawpaw grows here and in fact the neighborhoodplantingproject.org distributes them and other native fruit trees for free across the state.  Good luck!
Francis

Checking in from the Indy area.  Don't know that it will be possible to get a very active Indiana thread.  I just watch this "midwest usa" forum and occasionally an interesting new topic pops up.

Oh, I will drive conversations. Hopefully interesting threads. 😁

Cujo Liva wrote:Checking in from the Indy area.  Don't know that it will be possible to get a very active Indiana thread.  I just watch this "midwest usa" forum and occasionally an interesting new topic pops up.

j

Hello Hoosiers!  I am just over the border in MI, slightly north of south bend/mishawaka IN.  If anyone is in the area let me know.  
I bought a house on 1 acre over a year ago and I've been playing around outside a bit while working a full time job.