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

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

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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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Unapparent disability

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propagation

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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Permaculture-core: what is the permaculture aesthetic?

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

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What's for Dinner?

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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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JP and The Eternal Now (BEL)

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designing a homestead to "battle inflation"

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Urgent: Walking onions and freezing

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Need help picking the right cat wet food for my new kitten.

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Landrace and Heirlooms

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Design help needed for RMH fitment.

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Tomato Breeding - F1 hybrid Habrochaites Grow Journal

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Tunnel of plants

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aquaponics

Can aquaponics really be permaculture?

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Recycling centers closing?

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Garden on this concrete, or remove all/some?

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what can I do with persimmons?

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crowdfunding

Gardening playing cards for gardeners and homesteaders Kickstarter

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the weeds we love

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Ahh, for the love of just being happy!!

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fungi

I found these 2 beauties

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‘What does the Earth ask of us?’

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Ah, for the love of sprained ankles!!

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cooking

How do you make Onion Dip?

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Quote of the day

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Pioneer title for completing the Scavenger Hunt!

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Socializing livestock guardian dogs to humans

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