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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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Music of the Moment

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A lot about apples!

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Quote of the day

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pep

PEPPERS in action

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The official permies.com Book Review Grid with more than 100 books listed

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The aging homesteader

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Smaugust 2025 art challenge (there are dragons)

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Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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garden plans, records, results, hopes.....

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

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Are hobbies dead?

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What's for Dinner?

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art

Permaculture-core: what is the permaculture aesthetic?

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

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Glazing and underpainting - for the frugal oil painter (grisaille, brunaille, verdaille, etc)

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

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Mistborn score - any good?

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

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

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

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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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What do you do for work?

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JP and The Eternal Now (BEL)

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growing peanuts...might have made a mistake...now some success!

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Permies Poll: How often are you cleaning your house?

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Replaced old lead acid batteries with LifePO4 for home power system off grid

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

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cob

When dry, cob becomes rock-solid to frame a rocket mass heater

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pep commerce

Develop a residual income stream - PEP BB commerce.sand.residual

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Plot 5: a new urban Community garden

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Pig shelters: log cabin?

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Ideal seed mix for a grow-and-mow green manure patch

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Best thing you ever pulled from a dumpster or out of someone's garbage?

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animal fibers

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gear

Manual hydraulic wood splitter

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Hulling Oats on a small scale

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Prepare a dish - PEP BB foraging.sand.dish

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My version of Elizabeth Cotten's "Freight Train"

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Change a letter game

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Be Nice

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Concise Guide to Permies' Publishing Standards

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Funny Pictures

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Building a Cob Style Rocket Mass Heater - three copies of one DVD

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rocket mass heaters

Transforming a Fireplace into a Splendid Rocket Mass Heater

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rocket mass heaters

Shorty sidewinder, 200 mm (approx. 8") system, lots of mass

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ecovillage

Ecovillage Tours 2026

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Do you love fruit trees, are creative, and want to help shape Susan Poizner's new book?

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What were your biggest misconceptions of off-grid living?

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midwest usa

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gear

Buy it for life - Loppers

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animal fibers

What is "skirting" a fleece?

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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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permaculture

Gradual Terracing

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paul wheaton

2 decks of permaculture playing cards

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paul wheaton's permaculture podcasts

Podcast 720 - An Eye Towards AI - Part 2

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soil

Solar cooking alternative to Slash and Burn horticulture.

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recycling

You know you are a "reuse everything" person when....

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Can drystacked block have a a seat at this table?

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