I am so sad Bill is gone. He was a funny old man. I watched quite a few of his permaculture courses when I was getting my Permaculture Design Certificate.
I think you're doing just fine being a homesteader in a city apartment without even a balcony (but omg, that does suck a big one, haha). You're doing it exactly right! Making value-added products is really the way to go!
You've got a PDC??? Why am not surprised? ;-) May I ask who your instructors were? Not that I would recognize all major (or minor) names in the world of Permaculture education, but I kinda hope it may ring a bell maybe. I took mine in the States as well, taught by Scott Pittman and Larry Santoyo, back in 2008.
I had to do it online. I got it with Through Oregon State University's program taught by Andrew Millison. :) He started out in Arizona.
Okay, his name does ring a bell, but a faint one. I guess I must have bumped into it online at some point. (Probably the university's online PDC program).
Probably so!