Nice to see this post on here and I couldn't agree more! Thanks for sharing this @rimann it looks like you were one of the first people to get permaculture going on here. I am a permaculturist that studied with Geoff Lawton of PRI (PDC and 10 week Internship) I also took a Mycoremediation course with Paul Stamets and have traveled the world visiting various demonstration, organic and permaculture farms. My hope is to grow and develop the Permaculture Movement by using Steemit to empower people who have great information to share, courses to offer, and maybe goods and services to sell. Steemit looks like it might be capable of all those things simultaneously. Growing your own food is like printing your own money, blogging about it at the same time is like gaining interest and extra sources of income from the same activity. I tried to reach out to the people at Permies.com but I think it is threatening for their platform to have to compete for attention,users and content. If they could do the same thing with a blockchain technology and cryptopermie dollars (backed by books, tools, volunteer hours, seeds, trees and cultures held in trust by all members). THEN we could really get things going. But so far, there seem to only be a few early adopters. Shout out to all the Permaculture People!!!!! If you googled this article or are new to steemit, reach out to others on Fb, instagram, twitter and the like to come to steemit and start nourishing this platform with our content and merry community!!! Now let's see if this works.............. thanks all, @ecoknowme