Hello permaculture collective! I’m living in Edmonton, Alberta and have woken up in my mid thirties to find that I have not lived a life that is in keeping with my own values, nor one that is sustainable in the long term. I wrote poetry to help wake myself up, but that’s another story. My 10 year old son is non-verbal autistic and my wife and I have been discovering that we are “high-masking” autistic as well. She has a formal diagnosis, while I do not. We both are in a state of constant overwhelm which has been essentially nonstop since the end of high school (where we met). Now I’ve lucked into a spectacular job that allows me to work from anywhere in Canada 100% from home, and opened up the possibility of a soft-landing to a simpler life. We’ve got her whole family considering a lifestyle change and if we are successful in talking them into it, her mom and step dad own two quarter sections in southern Saskatchewan, right next to the Belle Plain Potash mine that I really want to believe could work for us to practice permaculture/rewilding on. But I am totally lost on where to begin in figuring out how contaminated the soil is likely to be. My mom is a witch and has been growing a food forest in Southern BC for over a decade now (which doesn’t work for us for a variety of reasons), so I have a decent understanding of the basics of permaculture and plan to learn a lot more in the coming years, even if we don’t manage the seismic change I’m hoping to accomplish in moving my family out of city life.