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Permie paralysis – the state of having acquired from your permaculture design course so much useful info that you are completely overwhelmed.

Permie paralysis – the state of having acquired from your permaculture design course so much useful info that you are completely overwhelmed.

We presented to hundreds at the Global Tiny House Conference about “Macro Forces, Market Trends, and #WorkFromHomestead”.

Surrounded by boxes of what we’re taking to B.C., it doesn’t feel like we’re really “living” in Calgary anymore. There’s still a month until we move, and it’s as though we’re somewhere in between. It’s given us a lot of time to think about what we want to do with Big Calm. The first objective […]

Last summer, my husband and I went on our second road trip across B.C. to look at properties. We knew we wanted to get closer to nature and become more self-reliant, but didn’t have many plans beyond that. The goal of the trip was to decide where in B.C. we wanted to move. We fell […]

When I get overwhelmed by how to design the perfect permaculture guild or rainwater harvesting system, I remember that permaculture is an iterative process, and to just start where I am, do what I can and use what I have.