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sewing

help needed - draft stopper

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Harvest wild pottery clay slip - PEM BB traditional.sand.clayslip

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PEM

Remove a stump - PEM BB homesteading.sand.stump

BB 1 1

PEM

Make a snare - PEM BB traditional.sand.snare

1 1

toxic gick

how to tell if lumber is treated with the bad stuff if it's not tinted green or labeled?

5 replies 1 2

PEM

Make salted pork - PEM BB traditional.sand.saltpork

1 1

PEM

Hide glue - PEM BB traditional.sand.hideglue

1 1

PEM

Adopt willow bed - PEM BB traditional.sand.willowbed

2 1

PEM

Make pine pitch stick - PEM BB traditional.sand.pitch

2 1

PEM

24 feet of simple pallet fence - PEM BB homesteading.sand.pallet

BB 1 1

PEM

Bow drill fire - PEM BB traditional.sand.bowdrill

2 1

PEM

Basement root cellar - PEM BB homesteading.wood.basementcellar

BB 1 1

PEM

Mini root cellar - PEM BB homesteading.sand.root

BB 1 1

PEM

Prepare spruce root - PEM BB traditional.sand.spruce

2 1

plants

Cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum)

2 4

PEM

Rushlights - PEM BB traditional.sand.rushlights

1 1

PEM

Make a pinch pot - PEM BB traditional.sand.pinch

2 1

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Plant Crawl / Swap Meetup / Plant Underground Railroad Idea

7 replies 1

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Edgewood Nursery from Falmouth, Maine

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PEM

Dipped wax candles - PEM BB traditional.sand.dipcandles

1 1

PEM

24 feet of good pallet fence - PEM BB homesteading.sand.goodpallet

BB 1 1 1

plant fibers

Help with Overly Coarse Nettle Fibre?

1 reply 1 2 1

plants

Scottish heather - Calluna vulgaris

3 1

rocket mass heaters

Best Heat, a Warmer Home with Half the Wood Live Event

1 reply 1 28

PEM

Correct a structural defect with an outbuilding - PEM BB homesteading.straw.outbuilding

BB 1 1

PEM

Raze and Salvage a Large Building - PEM BB homesteading.wood.raze

BB 2 1

communication

Recently my cell phone started telling me names of strangers who text me

2 replies

solar

One country actively aiding small farmers

1 reply 1

podcasts

Propaganda by the Seed

1 reply 2

cooking

Smoking pork shoulder

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crowdfunding

Earlybird bundle for Sourdough Without Fail: October 7th-10th, 2025

1 reply 4 3

fungi

Keeping squirrels off mushroom logs?

3 replies

meaningless drivel

It is Taco Tuesday!

0 replies 4 1

chickens

First-Year Chicken Keeper Mistakes That Cost Me $500+

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bugs

Iberian ant queens lay eggs that hatch into another species

1 reply 1 1

biochar

When do you put out the fire?

8 replies 1 1

meaningless drivel

1970 something

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projects

Solid fuel boiler with a bunker that burns wood chips

3 replies 1 1

PEM

Make a snow cave - PEM BB traditional.straw.cave

1 1

gear

How do you Remove a Ford Golden Jubilee Ignition Switch (key switch)

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food as medicine

how certain gut bacteria and your diet can make or break the success of cancer therapies

0 replies 1 1

grains and pseudograins

Corn fungus identification

2 replies 6

PEM

Make antler buttons - PEM BB traditional.straw.antlerbuttons

2

PEM

Weave a split wood basket - PEM BB traditional.straw.splitbasket

2

PEM

Weave a pine needle basket - PEM BB traditional.straw.weavepine

2

PEM

Make shell buttons - PEM BB traditional.straw.buttons

1

PEM

Collect sinew - PEM BB traditional.straw.sinew

1

PEM

Weave a tray - PEM BB traditional.straw.weavetray

1

PEM

Make soap - PEM BB traditional.straw.soap

1

PEM

Weave a fish trap - PEM BB traditional.straw.fishtrap

1

PEM

Make pemmican - PEM BB traditional.sand.pemmican

1

PEM

Make acorn flour - PEM BB traditional.sand.acorn

1

PEM

Process wild rice - PEM BB traditional.sand.rice

1

PEM

Backpack frame - PEM BB traditional.sand.backpack

2

PEM

Make hard tack - PEM BB traditional.sand.hardtack

1

PEM

Make a fishhook - PEM BB traditional.sand.fishhook

1

PEM

Cane pole - PEM BB traditional.sand.canepole

1

PEM

Make writing ink - PEM BB traditional.sand.ink

1

PEM

Make writing quill - PEM BB traditional.sand.quill

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Hackberry grinder

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