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meaningless drivel

Help! Cat vs laptop

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art

minimalist kit for sketching and painting

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the price of pie

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meaningless drivel

Would you rather ... eat licorice or eat candy corn?

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bread

How do you manage your sourdough starter?

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Kitchen tongs that don't melt or scratch?

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chickens

Avian flu: When/if to freak out?

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meaningless drivel

looking for suggestions for news sources other than the USA

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Looking for 5 gallon non plastic containers that seal airtight

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Permies SKIP Scouts

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My green/hoop-house thingy build

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wheaton laboratories

Alex's Boot Experience

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ergonomics

Bucket handles

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chickens

chickens eating eggs

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textile tools

Zoom Loom -- maybe transitioning from playing to projects

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rocket mass heaters

Out with the old RMH

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pigs

Can Pigs add?

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meaningless drivel

My Burning Question: How do you pronounce "Peridot"?

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natural building

Lead Paint on the ceiling of a Kitchen with a Wood Cook Stove

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house plants

Monstera, to slice or save?

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GAMCOD 2025: 200 square feet; Zero degrees F or colder; calories cheap and easy

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What do you sit on, and why does it matter, and much more?

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chickens

Egg Prices

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Pill bottle reuse

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cooking

Porridge oats versus rolled oats - are they the same? are they different?

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personal care

Natural conditioner/detangler for long, curly, tangle-prone hair? Preferably that smells good...

19 replies 3 8

projects

Planting my first flax bed!

31 replies 18 16

repair

Extracting A Headless Bolt

29 replies 6 17

personal challenges

Auditory hallucinations, or hearing voices

18 replies 1 28

goats and sheep

Ramming ram, what to do...

39 replies 4 16

small farm

How to get the most out of small acreage?

39 replies 1 10 32

meaningless drivel

Understanding canada. The logdriver and others

7 replies 5

sewing

Singer Treadle machines are passing 100 years old!

15 replies 3 16

chickens

Avian flu concerns

27 replies 2 13

frugality

What I do with freebie meat scraps...

15 replies 1 50 27

meaningless drivel

Can you focus on one thing for 10 min?

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meaningless drivel

The green broom of death!

17 replies 31

personal care

Beginner soapmaking without a digital scale?

16 replies 20

meaningless drivel

Strange things I have done

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art

Clove Box for oil paints

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repair

Help me help my Kitchenaid

22 replies 3 12 26

art

AI, art, guru disappointment, AI done right

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homestead

The House of Riona: Micro Homesteading 2025

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rocket mass heaters

At Last. My RMH Is a Reality

28 replies 21 18

berries

American Elderberry, cut to the ground every year? Biomass bonanza?

42 replies [ 1, 2 ] 3 4 16

recycling

Bring out your dead! - VHS tapes

17 replies 1 3

gardening for beginners

Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

24 replies 16

art

A blast from my Past (are pastel pencils still a thing?)

7 replies 1 2 1

art

How to wash milk painted surfaces?

5 replies 11 7

rocket mass heaters

First flights of the Studio Dragon

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rocket mass heaters

Rebuilding and remodeling the Shop Dragon

17 replies 64 26

zero waste

Dry Beans That Won't Cook

23 replies 3 15

personal challenges

How do I turn my wish into reality?

62 replies [ 1, 2 ] 2 18

chickens

What do you grow for your chickens?

28 replies 1 4 11

buy it for life

Stove top kettle recommendations

24 replies 1 9 6

wheaton laboratories

permaculture bootcamp - gardening gardeners; grow the food you eat and build your own home

[ 1, 2 ] 22 9 46

gardening for beginners

How could a Permie deal with Voles?

64 replies [ 1, 2 ] 2 7 17

seeds and breeding

I ordered my 'Going to Seed' seeds! Joseph Lofthouse's Landrace Seed Share group

25 replies 4 17

bread

Sourdough recipe testers wanted!

49 replies [ 1, 2 ] 15 23

cooking

Ideas for Pickle Brine Reuse?

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