About
This started as a plant filter. I needed to know what would actually grow, what would fix nitrogen, and what could handle pests without turning my yard into a chemical experiment. From there, it grew.
Some of this comes from direct experience — building out a food forest in Yulee, Florida. Some of it comes from research, pattern recognition, and connecting dots across different climates and systems. Not every plant here has been personally tested, and that's intentional. This isn't just about one yard.
Information should be free and widely available. No exceptions.
This isn't for me — it's for the person in zone 7 trying to feed their family, the grower in Puerto Rico making it work without a safety net, the beginner staring at a dying lawn and realizing… maybe it was never supposed to be grass in the first place.
Most environmental content either sells guilt or sells products. PermiePortal does neither. It just shows you the system — and lets you decide what feels broken.
Sometimes the truth doesn't land head-on. Sometimes you have to twist it, exaggerate it, laugh at it — and suddenly you can't unsee it. That's what the Rotten Articles section is. Satire as a delivery system. Soil science as the payload.
Different uniforms, same pattern: someone upstream made a decision that made sense on paper, and someone downstream paid for it in soil, or blood, or both. PermiePortal is what happens when you get tired of waiting for upstream to figure it out.