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Game - Picture Association

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You know you're a permie when...

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What is it.... the game! Post unknown objects to ID... and to stump others!

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SEPP to Boot: Stephen's Experience (BEL)

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Talk me out of (or into) a ukulele

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fruit trees

A lot about apples!

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The simple pleasures of the day (please add your own)

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The aging homesteader

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PEPPERS in action

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Northern Lights alert

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Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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wheaton laboratories

In the quiet hours of the bootcamp grind, I found myself: Esteban's Bootcamp Experience

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Someone lent me a guitar - how do I learn classical guitar

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2026 - arting - quick art share

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my thoughts are sometimes better expressed by others.....

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a college degree in 2025/2026/2027 ... don't

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Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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Are hobbies dead?

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rocket mass heaters

Are you interested in building a rocket mass heater? What is holding you back?

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apples

Growing Apple Trees From Seed Naturally

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tinkering with this site

Americans, please don't use 2 letter abbreviations for your state!

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Permaculture-core: what is the permaculture aesthetic?

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this forum is for gardeners, homesteaders and permaculture people

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Seth's Lazer-Focused, Long-Winded, Lively List of Lab Lessons (BEL)

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Electrosensitivity - Can Earth-Sheltered and/or Earthen-Walled Structures Help Us?

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How do I learn to read music?

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The Glorious Revolution - 25th of May - Pratchett and discworld

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Catherine The Grateful - not permaculture farm, lessons from the field (BEL)

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Americans with recent experience buying from Canada? (Summer-fall 2025)

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Expedient insulation

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BRAINSTORMING - how to document things like depression for PEP natural medicine BB

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asia

Upcycling/Receiving Free Garden Materials in Japan: My Experience

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art

Oil paint as wood stain?

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Youtube gone all choppy?

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wells and springs

Designing water systems with natural spring on property

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jokes

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upcycling

Old Guitar strings

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rainwater catchment

How long after a new roof is catching water safe?

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Definitely not Cupid

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sleaze and anti-sleaze (or, soul building to cure a flood of sleaze)

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biochar

what makes biochar good or bad?

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animal fibers

Wool bath mat, what are your thoughts?

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fruit trees

Clearing Woods for Apple Orchard. Advice on brush removal, Anyone do this? Looking for Advice.

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Your suggestions have been mashed into the PIE page - wuddyathink?

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upcycling

Unwinding and repurposing barbed wire

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vines

How do Air Potatoes Taste?

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propagation

Propagating arborvitae from cutting?

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rocket mass heater jamboree October 5-9 2026

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intentional community

Looking for a Tribe (Zones 8-10)

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The great big thread of sunchoke info - growing, storing, eating/recipes, science facts

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Dragon Art

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Should I start a Tree/Plant Nursery Business

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Support the Permaculture Bootcamp - Back the BEL

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Apple tree photo request

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Deep Clean a Carpet with Water and Suction - PEP BB nest.straw.deepcleancarpet

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Many dream it, few actually do it

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beans

Christmas lima beans and Seven year limas are the same plant

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bugs

Harvesting worms by worm grunting / worm charming / worm fiddling

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composting

best brand bought bagged compost?

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If you had $200 (or $1000) to improve your long term resilience, how would you spend it?

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Permaculture Design Course affiliate info

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Home scale spinning frame (multiple spindles, one hand crank)

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Building a Better World in your Backyard by Paul Wheaton and Shawn Klassen-Koop

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Bowyer and fletching

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trees

Plant circles around drip lines of big (fruit) trees?

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asia

Scythes, and scythe adjacent tools in Japan

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seeds and breeding

Seed starting hack...

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workshops

Salvaging Abundance Together: A 4-part Community Permaculture Workshop Series starting 4/4/26

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gardening for beginners

planting peas

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politics

A compromise for property tax?

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urban

So Cal Permaculture salon

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earthship

A simple cooling experiment alongside the idea of earthship cool tubes

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rocket mass heaters

Uncle Mud Tiny House Rocket Mass Heater 1 Year Update--The Long Firegeek Version

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ducks and geese

Growing all a duck's feed

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Shorty Core + Oven Single Skin Bell Build

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