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The aging homesteader

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women peeing outdoors

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homestead

What is a fair price per acre for land?

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Garden on Corliss Homestead Journal

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gear

Tool thoughts for women

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Brandon and Nikki's Homestead

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wildfire

Ways to cope with thick wildfire smoke

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earthworks

Major earthworks starting -- central texas

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Crypto-permie homesteaders on Nat Geo TV show "Live Free Or Die"

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ponds

My Unexpected Frog Pond

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homestead

I thought I had prepared - turns out sickness whacked my perfect world

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low tech

Solar Food Dryers?

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homestead

My city farm

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homestead

Air Well - collecting water from the air

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low tech

Carrying things on your head

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homestead

Helping Out and Earning Ones Keep

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gear

Tractors, necessary, or luxury?

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scythes

I'm terrible at scything!

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homestead

Farm For All - A Journal Of Sorts

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homestead

How to time growing a family and starting a homestead?

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gear

Replacing broken tool handles

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low tech

Winnerwell Foldfast Oven question

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gear

What digging fork have you found to be the sturdiest?

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homestead

ACCURATE fire prevention advice please!

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homestead

How much land does a good life require?

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gear

Thinking about buying red---worth it?

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low tech

Any ideas how to haul long logs from the woods with no vehicle?

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homestead

Missing septic tank

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homestead

Permaculture Smackdown: Keeping Yourself Motivated as a Homesteader

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gear

Upgrading tractor hydraulics

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homestead

Self-doubt about future plans for land & house

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gear

How do you use clothespins, beyond pinning clothes?

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homestead

Food self-sufficiency for 9 people on 10 acres, what would you do?

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scythes

Scythe mowing in very dry conditions

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homestead

What were your biggest misconceptions of off-grid living?

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gear

Hoemanship - Favorite type of Hoe?

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gear

Do you have an anvil?

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low tech

PVD: Passive Vehicular Dehydration

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earthworks

Capturing 100% of precipitation

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homestead

How do you know your water is clean?

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JD cushion came off seat

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Just a Quick Friendly Reminder...

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Concho, Arizona Homesteading

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How to search for land/property to live on

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Reactivating a 500-year-old WINDMILL to grind grain using wind power

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Garden on Corliss Homestead Journal

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Permies Poll - Have you made candles before?

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The House of Riona, Micro Homesteading 2026

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My city farm

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earthworks

To Mound or Not??

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homestead

Cheap deer fencing

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homestead

Missing septic tank

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homestead

How much land does a good life require?

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gear

Amazing ploskorez - to replace usual spade, hoe, rakes etc...

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gear

Like pen and paper, or a typewriter, but does more.

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gear

2-wheel tiller advice (europe)

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ponds

converting a heavy rain disaster into a permaculture paradise

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gear

Planting stick

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gear

Future Tractor Attachments and Modifications

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low tech

PVD: Passive Vehicular Dehydration

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low tech

Laundry with resource limitations

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scythes

Scythe mowing in very dry conditions

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Fokin ploskorez hoe by Ecominded

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ponds

the first steps in pond design on questionable land

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The aging homesteader

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SOLD Homestead for sale Texas

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gear

Do you have an anvil?

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gear

Replacing broken tool handles

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homestead

Homesteading as the way of life

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gear

Multi-function kitchen work station

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homestead

Unplanned Function Stacking

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gear

Could use some advice on pole chainsaw use. (limbs pinching the chainsaw bar.)

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ponds

harvesting water, in a desert, safely, from a polluted road

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low tech

Any ideas how to haul long logs from the woods with no vehicle?

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wells and springs

Sprinkler pumps? shallow (30') well pumps for irrigation?

3 weeks ago 17 replies

gear

Old-time veg chopper for livestock feed.

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homestead

Off grid for women alone

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gear

Walking tractors David Bradley, why they are not used more? and other discussions.

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homestead

mortgages - good debt and bad debt, property ownership / renting for a liftime

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Venting frustration and hopelessness in land search

3 years ago 59 replies [ 1, 2 ] 1 2 15

ponds

how to create natural aeration

8 years ago 3 replies

ponds

pond algae, please help.

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