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The Independent American Gardener Permaculture Food Forests | Regenerative Agriculture | Family of 9
Building resilient homesteads & gardens across America.

Founders of TIAG Community; Holistic Herbs, Animals, Food, Water, Shelter, Surplus, Education, Gardens, Bees, Family, God & Country Lulu's Garden is an e-commerce marketplace where members of TIAG can offer and access one another's homestead products. It also provides resources like exclusive insulated beehives, seeds, herbs, and books, and collaborates with Haven Permaculture to offer permaculture design and education services.

I believe you have less than a year to Make this happen for your family at home. The next 48 months are going to change ...
10/22/2026

I believe you have less than a year to Make this happen for your family at home. The next 48 months are going to change America as we know it, and the world, in ways you do not currently see coming. Fear is a weapon, but awareness is key to intention, and you must design your life as you intend it to be, or you will be found wanting in a time of need, having no direction, wandering aimlessly, seeking things here and there... Our foundational pattern is built ont he basis of family self-sufficiency because it starts at HOME. you must make your HOME a HAVEN, that is why we founded Haven Permaculture LLC to teach and help you develop your regeneative land project to catch rain, grow food, store energy, and produce a surplus you can barter and trade when money no longer matters, or is scarce, or in other contexts simply not the cmode of exchange for a given time. During world war 2, Victory gardens made the difference between starvation and survival for many families. World war 3 will not be so kind. Annual agriculture is NOT the solution. Instead, Regenerative, Perennial, Self-sustaining Ecosystem based gardens called FOOD FORESTS designed in symbiotic relationships withyour local climate, land, and biology will support you, your loved ones, and your community. The More Homes we build this way down a street, the more ability an entire city has to feed itself from within. Fruit trees come back each year by themselves, perennial herbs bare medicine year after year, and every living thing on earth eats freely from nature, except people. It is not because we are not able, it is because we do not know what we are looking at anymore.

I aim to change that for my family, AND yours.
Rapidly.

Link in the comments.

10/21/2026

The USA Was never meant to be a 2 party system.
The founding fathers of the U.S. Constitution did not want or intend a two-party system, specifically viewing political parties (or "factions") as dangerous, divisive forces capable of tearing the republic apart.

Well, they were right. We are ripping ourselves apart one faction against another, like a hunger games scene where in the end even the team mates kill eachother.

For Example, Washington was the only president who never joined a political party. In his 1796 Farewell Address, he explicitly warned the nation against the "baneful effects of the spirit of party", fearing it would lead to "disunion" and foreign entanglements. Again, right.

Hamilton, who led the Federalist Party to support a strong central government and national banking, nevertheless regarded political factions as "the most fatal disease" of popular governments. Also right.

Curious about this tonight, I asked google what happened in a quick search, and this is what it said:

The original constitutional model created by the founding fathers is widely referred to by historians and political scientists as the Madisonian model (or the Madisonian system).
When looking specifically at the mechanism they designed to choose the president without political parties, it was the original Electoral College system, sometimes referred to as the Nonpartisan Presidential Election design.

The Madisonian System (A "Filter" on Passion): James Madison and the other framers designed a constitutional structure meant to intentionally fracture majorities. By relying on separation of powers, checks and balances, bicameralism, and federalism, the system aimed to force different factions to deliberate and compromise rather than consolidate into a single ruling party.

Under the original Electoral College History, citizens did not vote for a combined party "ticket" (President + Vice President). Instead, state legislatures chose a small group of independent elite electors who were expected to use their personal judgment to vote for the most qualified individuals.

Under Article II, Section 1 of the original Constitution, each elector cast two votes for president.

The person who received the highest number of votes (if a majority) became the president, and the runner-up automatically became the vice president.

Why the Original Design Failed

The founders assumed candidates would be independent statesmen, but the immediate rise of political parties broke the system. In the election of 1796, it resulted in a divided executive branch: the Federalist John Adams became president, and his chief political rival, the Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson, became vice president.

By the election of 1800, party loyalty caused a total gridlock when Jefferson and his own running mate, Aaron Burr, ended up in an accidental electoral tie. To fix this fundamental design flaw, the nation ratified the 12th Amendment in 1804, forcing electors to cast distinct, separate ballots for president and vice president—effectively adapting the Constitution to accommodate the reality of political parties.

10/20/2026

This is WHY!?

10/19/2026

An arm of Haven Permaculture LLC has always been implementation of land designs, not just design. Heading into winter and through to spring, Im ready to ramp that up a notch or five.

Coming?

Outnof 400+ people in our free facebook group, only 22 people, on average, see my posts. And our engagement there is a f...
10/19/2026

Outnof 400+ people in our free facebook group, only 22 people, on average, see my posts. And our engagement there is a flat 0. What would YOU do?

Have you been looking at your property, trying to figure out where to start? Where the fruit trees should go, how to wor...
10/17/2026

Have you been looking at your property, trying to figure out where to start? Where the fruit trees should go, how to work with the water, or which project makes sense to tackle first?

Today, I’m offering a 60-minute property consultation for $50, down from the normal $500 price.

We’ll meet by video, pull up your property in Google Earth Pro, and talk through your goals, questions, and possible next steps.

Ill produce several layers of property data for you about your land, and show you how to use it all live.

You’ll also receive a five-page report through Haven Permaculture private portal called My Haven, to help you move forward. This is a consultation and property overview, rather than a drawn design or engineered plan.

Whether you have a backyard in town or acreage out in the country, we can talk about how to make better use of the space you have for growing food and building a more productive home.

Book today while the $50 offer is live! We can schedule the consultation for a later date, so you don’t need to be available today.

Link in the comments!

10/17/2026

TODAY ONLY:
60minute Permaculture Property Consultation and 5 page followup report is only 50!
(Down from $500)
Link in the comments

10/16/2026

Got the poles up!

I HATE Logging into things. I glgenuinely despise the login process. Across dozens of sites and apps I am CONSTANTLY try...
10/15/2026

I HATE Logging into things. I glgenuinely despise the login process. Across dozens of sites and apps I am CONSTANTLY trying to remember passwords and 2auth crap, email/sms codes, it drives me absolutely nuts!! I spend more time trying to get INTO a thing than I actually needed to BE in it to begin with.

For that very same reason, we are merging all TIAG community platforms into one unified account, linked to haven permaculture and ambassador affiliate programs. If you've ever joined for natural beekeeping, general community boards, food forest digital resource libraries, or permaculture design portals, ALL of it is coming into one clean, merged platform.

Get excited!
I am genuinely relieved myself, so I know how you probably feel. 🧘‍♂️

Grow Foos, Catch Rain, Store Energy, Produce a surplus from home. Live REGENERATIVE

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