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Talk me out of (or into) a ukulele

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A lot about apples!

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

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Northern Lights alert

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The aging homesteader

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PEPPERS in action

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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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paul wheaton's pseudo blog

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

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

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Oil paint as wood stain?

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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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How to save fuel when driving?

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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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getting cooking oil stains out of clothing?

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frugality

How to save fuel when driving?

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How Much of the World's Knowledge is Readily Available on the Internet?

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Give me a counter-case for strawbales so that I can be aware of all the negatives, please.

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wild harvesting

Favorite Spring forage?

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Sunroots For Sale: Genetically diverse. Prolifically Seeding.

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food preservation

Homestead Nutrition

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Cigar box guitar and variations

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One Renegade Cell

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I just bought a crappy looking bike. Not a department store bike.

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sizing a DIY outdoor fire suppression system

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biochar

How does biochar improve soil growing conditions and Greenhouse gas effects?

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tiny house

Incorperating a small version rocket stove thermal furnes in my Tiny House on wheel, under the floor

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medicinal herbs

What medicinal herbs do you recommend beginners start with?

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cooking

Dressing for idiots! (salad dressing)

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plumbing

2-Hole Perforated Pipe vs Wrapped Gravel

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fungi

My first mushroom attempt

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forest garden

Trumpet vine!

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berries

raspberry rascal

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introductions

Hello from Columbus, OH

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My city farm

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paul wheaton's permaculture podcasts

Podcast 739 - Sleaze and Anti-sleaze - Part 1

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Living Fences

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Likely solution to eliminating the plastic membranes on a wofati

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rocket stoves and hot air balloons

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Growing Food Close to the Equator

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Mobile Egg Laying Coop Photo Journal

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re-using empty toilet paper/paper towel rolls

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art

Oil paint as wood stain?

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alternative energy

Batteries home building --maybe

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PEP Plumbing - Sand Badge

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ecovillage

Dream of starting permie homestead/ecovillage in Maine, looking for opinions.

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homestead

Non-electric-permaculture homestead seeking apprentices

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permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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buy it for life

DIY EpiPen

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pep electricity

PEP Badge: Electricity

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music

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

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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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chickens

Did your coop design change after you got chickens?

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Whole-diet Garden Plan Feedback

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