Hello. We are brand new here, was just searching for a couple of things regarding permaculture in Arkansas and ran upon this site and this thread. We live in Mayflower, AR, have just built our house and we've both read all the way through Gaia's Garden. This is definitely what we want to do with our small little area, about 2 acres, some of it is quite the rocky hillside. Husband is a beekeeper - but we lost both hives we started up here - so starting over on that, really saddened as we had done really well with the bees in Tennesee. So we are realizing that we need help. Two ideas we had today. First - maybe find someone we could hire to come to our place and help us make a detailed plan about how to get started and move forward and come back periodically and see how we are doing, like a permaculture consultant ???. We have done a basic plan but someone to help would be worth it. Secondly - is there a place we could go to work for awhile to learn some of what we need to know to be able to move forward. The whole thing seems pretty imposing for us - we are 60 and 62. Just finished the house and it's worn us out. Now the weed eating is killing us, but if we don't do it we have chiggers and snakes and whatnot. Seems to me like everything we try to grow just gets overtaken by weeds. But I hate flower beds. Help! Any ideas? Oh, we are on our second year for a keyhole garden, both failures.
