Dear Permies,
This is my first post to the permie blogs.
I'm a native Louisianan, and I've lived in and around NYC for thirteen years getting a pretty broad education. I'm finishing up law school this Spring and moving back to Shreveport, LA, my hometown. My family have a 200 acre property (zoned Agricultural/Improved) with fields, a lake, wetlands, and pine and cypress forests and a sort of plantation house there, close to some McMansiony suburbs, but outside the city limits. In the last year or so I have discovered what a dangerous and unsustainable road America is speeding down, and then I discovered permaculture. I have been learning everything I can find about it online, and I went to a workshop in upstate New York to practice a few basics (swale+berm placement and digging, planting, pruning, and some ecosystem building theory).
Though my personal philosophy is not to be easily convinced of things, I have a strong sense that Permaculture is the answer I have been looking for since I first started studying philosophy. So in my first post, I'd like to ask the community here, which seems so supportive and knowledgeable, for any advice you might have for getting started in permaculture in a place like Louisiana, and especially to ask if anyone who reads this who might be willing to lend advice or assistance in such a project. I know I haven't given many details yet, but I suppose that can be fleshed out more below, if a conversation gets started.
Please write to me if you have any thoughts; I look forward to getting to know some of you!
Yours,
John-Paul Young
