Enrique Ramirez

We are remodeling our home next year. Currently, we have a grey water line that takes sink and laundry water out a pipe to the coulee behind our house. It's a 100-year old system that I want to believe lets me get away with whatever I want as long as we don't move the kitchen. What I would like to do is have the pipe T into a leach pipe in a flower bed. If I do this, how far away from the house should it be? How often would I have to dig it out and clean it? Is this a bad idea? Have any of you done this successfully?

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These are the two I use:
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database (book version) www.naturaldatabase.com
The Complete German Commission E Monographs http://www.amazon.com/Complete-German-Commission-Monographs-Therapeutic/dp/096555550X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330151038&sr=8-1

My wife and I have practiced natural birth control for the three years that we have been married and have had no problems (kids) yet. We took the class from the "Couple to Couple Leage" Called "The Art of Natural Family Planning". I highly recommend it.
http://www.ccli.org/

Part of our problem is that we are currently in Alaska and planning on moving back to the Northwest US to be closer to family (about 2000 miles away). I don't think a local PDC would do me much good down there. If we did get land now, we wouldn't be able to do anything with it until we moved. Also, the job situation isn't great down there, and I would like to keep working for a few years to make sure we can afford our house before becoming full-time homesteaders. Because of that, we can't move until I have a job lined up, which could be a year or two.

I have no experience with Permaculture, but plenty with farming and gardening. I've been doing both since I was a kid. My first job was on a 5000 acre wheat farm with cattle, and my family always had a vegetable and herb garden, as well as fruit trees and rabbits.
We are still a good 2 years from being able to afford land. We have decided we don't want any more debt, so we plan on buying land outright and building a house as we can afford it. (We have talked about living in a yurt for a while until we can afford to build if there is no house already on the land).
Our end goal is self sufficiency. I'd like to be able to grow most of our food and be totally off-grid.
Based on your answer, I'm thinking I should take the course now. Is there a thread here that recommends one online course over the others? I haven't been able to find one.
Thanks for your help.

My wife and I are currently both working busy jobs while saving up to buy land. If I did the PDC thing now, I'd have to do an online, part time course. Most of these that I've looked at suggest you have a property already that you are working with (we don't yet). My question is this; would it be better to wait until we have land before taking the course, or should we try to take the course first and then use the info we learned in the selection process?