Dear David,
It was more than interesting reading your entire thread on Permies. I really admired your work, the wording in your posts and your persistence over this long period of time. It looks like you have now a good size community together and am curious if you are still looking for additional members or are open for a visit to learn from your experience.
In the last plus ten years, I did Perma-Culture classes and many homesteading experiments on our 6 acre irrigated property in Arizona. Raised picks and ducks, build a chicken plugger for quick processing, run a 150 square feet Aquaponic System year-round in an insulated green house for 8 years.
Since March I am in the process of moving to Tennessee, including my long held dream to create community. Meeting a fellow co-creator here we worked hard for close to 3 month, found 25 interested people joining our Telegram group and moved 10 of them into a preliminary founders group.
Two weeks ago I ended my engagement realizing some concerning differences in our vision and values and also our lack of Structure and sufficient process. I received consulting from Chloe Buzetto who spoke at the last Exit and Build conference in Texas and received more information from Diane Leaf Christian as well, besides reading her amazing book about Creating a Life together.
My friend Ann and myself are working on better presentation of our project, a new vetting procedure and our member agreements as proposals to be discussed. This means starting from scratch but we also like to to learn about existing communities and might join one if it feels right on both sides.
Time is of the essence right now and with all the troubles on the horizon the question arises how much time is left to do it right. I am really looking forward to your feedback and hopefully we can meet. Your writing was very clear, heartfelt and straight, I liked that.
Wishing all the Best for now
Manfred Steibli
fredmans@proton,me
