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SEPP to Boot: Stephen's Experience (BEL)

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Talk me out of (or into) a ukulele

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A lot about apples!

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Quote of the day

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The aging homesteader

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Northern Lights alert

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

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PEPPERS in action

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Talk me out of (or into) a ukulele

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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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Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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Are hobbies dead?

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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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How to save fuel when driving?

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

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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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art

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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Catherine The Grateful - not permaculture farm, lessons from the field (BEL)

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Cigar box guitar and variations

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What medicinal herbs do you recommend beginners start with?

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12V Portable LiFePO4 unheated battery recommendations?

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sculpture

How do you cut out eyeholes in a papier-mâché mask?

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

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Help Me Design the "Taj Mahal" of Outhouses

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alternative energy

Building 100 AH LiFePo4 Battery Box

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The Magic of Kimchi

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Cherry wood - what to do with it?

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intentional community

Clallam Bay Community (WA) — Seeking Experienced Growers

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gear

Do you have an old-fashioned sawbuck? Do you have ANY sawbuck? How'd you make it? Let us see it!

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Hobbit Home Progress.

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cob

Sensationalist rage bait about cob houses

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Ash's times at Wheaton Labs

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online learning

Free Seed Saving 101 Webinar on April 18th

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projects

The Tree field Skye

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natural building

share photos of old, abandoned, uninhabited structures in your part of the world!

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upcycling

uses for soup cans

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wood burning stoves

Mini wood-burning cookstove for a tiny house

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gardening for beginners

5 steps to plan your new garden before you start building it

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Larger Greenhouse

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Earth floor sealer... Cow urine, banana tree sap, oxblood? Alternatives to oil/solvent seal.

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Free Heat Combo - Free Heat + Freaky Cheap Heat + 7 - 3D Plans + RMH Risers eBook + Heat Greenhouses

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frugality

a tiny little decorative box made from an aluminum can

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Bar Soap vs Liquid Soap

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3 acre Property in Billings

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PleinAirpril - April art challenge

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south america / central america / mexico

Looking for individual or couple - Caretakers on organic farm in southern Ecuador

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Squirrels ate my fava bean, and snow pea, seeds right away

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Northern Lights alert

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PDF sewing patterns, do you use them?

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root crops

Where to buy Red Dutch Dwarf Jerusalem Artichoke?

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Homeschooling and Art

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food preservation

Homestead Nutrition

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

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Shorty Core + Oven Single Skin Bell Build

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What is an Erhu? (And other 1 or 2 string bowed instrument)

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Musings of a First Visit

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toilet alternatives

A Defense of Composting Toilets

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Show 282: The Spring Foraging Show

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permaculture singles

37 F looking to partner roles and build a homestead

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blatant advertising

Sunroots For Sale: Genetically diverse. Prolifically Seeding.

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trees

List of tree species that grow true to type/parent from seed

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ecovillage

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

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