The answer is YES!
I don't often stumble upon a group of people with a mission I can 100% get behind. Well, this is one of those rare times: Permies dude! What a blessing for humanity!
What on Earth is "Permies"?
Permies.com is an online forum for people interested in learning about permaculture. But one quick glance and you will see: it is much, much more than that!
It is a collection of priceless human knowledge as it relates to growing our own food, becoming self-sufficient and living a life free from the shackles of the modern control system. Yes, it also includes all questions that go far beyond "just" growing healthy food: how to raise horses, how to sow and cook, how to can and preserve food, how to make money without a steady 9-5 job, how to homeschool, even how to build a rocket stove... things you may have never considered to just pick up as a skill set with the proper instructions.
Most of us have no idea just how low budget and inexpensive some solutions can be, and how "easy" it is to do compared to the conditioned image in our minds where we have to buy everything from a story somewhere.
With the right tools, knowledge and people to ask for advice, suddenly anything seems possible. The more we move into self-sufficiency the more we rediscover our own innate powers: We start with the desire to grow our own food and we end up making our own rocket mass heaters, no-watering garden beds and no-maintenance food forests that produce fruits and veggies none of our neighbors ever thought would grow here...
A life of freedom and self-determination does require some skillsets, and a lot of advice and encouragement. Which is precisely why the website is so awesome!
It's a home for homesteaders and nature lovers, a place to ask when you have a problem in your garden and a treasure trove of rediscovered knowledge as it relates to self-reliance and human self-determination.
Why are you still here and not at permies?!
Want to learn about woodworking? Want to know how to get rid of snails in your garden? How to raise an avocado? How to build soil where there is only barren and dry land? How not to rely on industrial fertilizers every year? How to grow edible mushrooms? How to make your own electricity and store it?
I could go on indefinitely. The list is endless.
It's all there for anyone to read, no matter where you come from or how much money you have. TRUE SOLUTIONS DO EXIST. You just have to know what the problem is!
I don't only like the permies crew for their knowledge... it's also about the high vibe! You can feel it in the way the people interact in their forums!
It's been a while since I have seen an online forum with this level of respect, decency and mutual willingness to help each other. It speaks volumes about the spiritual predisposition of people who dig permaculture and stuff when this is the resulting quality of social interaction! And it's only logical. Permaculture as a philosophy has been inseparably intertwined with a reverence for anything that is alive, from the very beginning!
A deep-rooted respect for the grand cosmic cycles of life we feeble, sleepy human beings have all but forgotten about among the noise of modernity, the constant pressure towards financial income and the ever-present entertainment bombardment of hollow values with no solutions offered.
Contrasting that with permies.com - I am still a little teary-eyed from reading through the forums today, I mean wow. Learned a lot about "no-mow lawns" which are exactly what you think they are - lawns that need no mowing but are still... a nice lawn to walk on! Just as an example.
It really depends on what you want to do with your life, and I dig that approach! We are all grown-ups and should make our own decisions what we do with our time on Earth, what system we build and maintain, and what systems we choose to disengage from.
If you live in the countryside, if you grow food, if you do arts and crafts, if you want to start a business around your garden or if you just want to learn how to raise your own fish in your backyard or tomatoes on your balcony - just go to permies.com already!
I know this sounds like a shameless commercial, but I assure you it is purely enthusiasm on my part. There are no sponsorships or affiliate programs, and I don't "get" anything from you checking out permies... except for the satisfaction of more people on Earth learning about non-destructive ways to use and engage our environment respectfully, raise healthy food on our own and build a life of independence from monetary pressures and external tyranny.
If you do speak English and are working a garden, please do yourself the favor and check it out. You might get a priceless gift in realizing there IS A WAY to achieve anything you want to. It's just that nobody has told you yet, because most people generally don't know this exists.
The solutions are real.
All we have to do is rediscover them and trust in our own true power to transform the world into the actual paradise it can be!
If you'll excuse me, I'll go back to reading those forums now!
