accidental permie.....hurricane katrina refugee, started planting fruit trees on a 10 acre former cow pasture purchased in 2001 with the idea of "someday" retiring on a self sufficient "Mother Earth News" homestead...ran into Mollison and Masanobu Fukuoka serendipitously over the internet pre-K and now since 2006 splitting time working 6 months in the U.S.A and six months down on the farm in Costa Rica