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The aging homesteader

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A lot about apples!

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Talk me out of (or into) a ukulele

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

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Growing Apple Trees From Seed Naturally

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

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Cigar box guitar and variations

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The death of rats - need inspiration for some discworld fan art

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Oil paint as wood stain?

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What to make with just Flour and Water?

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Victory gardens, 2026 version: what are your plans?

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BREAKING WORLD NEWS! VERY IMPORTANT!

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Expedient insulation

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Geoff Lawton says grain is not really worth the while - what are your thoughts?

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Can I dye something permanently with coffee or tea?

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I would never believe this if it didn't happen to me.......

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Home going up for sale soon in Cascadia

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No lemons on my 5 year old trees zone 9b

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What kind of cheese do you use for cheese sauce?

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Creative Spices for Apple Butter - recipes please

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wells and springs

Sprinkler pumps? shallow (30') well pumps for irrigation? got one!!!

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rainwater catchment

Is this water tank arriving wounded?

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Before and after RMH numbers?

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art

Jackson's Watercolour Paint, TUBES

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Jackson's Watercolour Paint, PANS

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Music of the Moment

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This is a good idea...

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natural building

How would you build a bathroom?

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shower curtain, need a better system

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A Brief and Entirely Unnecessary Field Guide to Being Me

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soil

Woodchip Study

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plants

Show me your chiles

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Judith's garden plans, records, results, hopes.....

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introductions

Interest

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Wanna be friends... OR neighbors.?

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I built an offline homestead app for my own place. Free for life for ~50 Android beta testers

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wells and springs

Can an old unused drilled well improve with use?

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ponds

How do I clear up my pond

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David Blume's “Alcohol Can Be a Gas!” — Original 2007 Edition — New Old Stock

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Pepper seed blues - How to grow peppers from seed?

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The Duke It Out polyculture (z7b)

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I grew several chile pepper plants next to each other -- seed question

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Did I find free land? (Sweat Equity Arrangement)

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rocket mass heaters

beautiful rocket mass heaters

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living art

woven sapling playhouses

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cooking

Super Foods

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woodworking

Hello! I am new to this how is everyone doing?

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ponds

Concrete-free Natural Swimming Pool idea

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My experience at wheaton labs

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books

whats the best general reference book for offgrid skills?

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cover crops

Oats as a cover crop?

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seeds and breeding

Is there an open pollinated selection of candyland tomato?

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natural building

Non-plywood subfloor options?

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books

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

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art

Making my own watercolors with natural pigments (both homemade and storebought)

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