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food preservation

"Deep Pantry" AKA storing extra of food you like to eat and know how to cook

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cooking

Food grade lye - sourcing or making

32 replies 3 18

trees

Early Tree Leaf Drop?

13 replies 18

meaningless drivel

Snow is magic!!

29 replies 33 24

urban gardening

Homesteading in Cities

23 replies 29

music

Buying a used string instrument, what does one need to know?

10 replies 10

meaningless drivel

Help! Cat vs laptop

14 replies 1 22

rocket mass heaters

Cushions for the rocket bench

34 replies 1 39

woodworking

Cherry wood - what to do with it?

30 replies 1 17 20

sculpture

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

7 replies 11

meaningless drivel

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

27 replies 1 2 8

rainwater catchment

Ways to get water for low cost/free to offset costs?

16 replies 24

organic

Help with non plastic raised bed liner

26 replies 1 13 43

chickens

Avian flu: When/if to freak out?

15 replies 14

beans

why aren't my scarlet runner beans setting beans?

15 replies 4 2

meaningless drivel

Everyone hates printers...

11 replies 2 1 6

gardening for beginners

Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

31 replies 22

projects

Foraging 200,000 Calories from 10 Different Species

16 replies 21 26

low tech

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

28 replies 8 2 35

pigs

New piggies may 2026

17 replies 27 24

rocket mass heaters

8"J-tube with Bell to heat living room and kitchen

44 replies [ 1, 2 ] 1 33 47

gardening for beginners

What would you plant in your roadside ditch?

30 replies 17

cooking

the best oil/grease to use for seasoning cast iron

17 replies 2 24

gardening for beginners

Permies Poll: Do you Foliar Feed?

20 replies 7

cheese

looking for ideas and recipes for my ricotta cheese

23 replies 5 31

meaningless drivel

I put curtains on my wall and it made all the difference (keeping cool in hot conditions)

14 replies 1 6

wheaton laboratories

Jessee's Bootcamp Experience for today

20 replies 111 46 2

meaningless drivel

Boot problem question

13 replies 1 8

homestead

Permaculture Smackdown: Keeping Yourself Motivated as a Homesteader

29 replies 1 6 12

medicinal herbs

What medicinal herbs do you recommend beginners start with?

41 replies [ 1, 2 ] 2 24

homestead

Missing septic tank

27 replies 5

meaningless drivel

12 steps to sewing

17 replies 4 9

propagation

How to keep seeds warm - permie ideas please!

17 replies 3 2

books

Single best book that helped you with gardening?

35 replies 3 32

projects

Kitchen garden plot on Skye

15 replies 20 9

seeds and breeding

Free Sunflower Seeds - Will you help my son increase genetics?

25 replies 8 19

solar

Solar panel angle for grid tie vs. summer offgrid vs. yearround offgrid

21 replies 2 2 4

homeschooling

Ideas for living history activities for studying Vikings?

33 replies 1 5 26

personal challenges

Ahh for the love of dog—Gracie

20 replies 7 42

cooking

How to have healthy food around all the time

25 replies 1 14 27

rural

Looking for a Career

42 replies [ 1, 2 ] 23

paul wheaton's pseudo blog

how to safely heat with green/wet wood in your wood stove when you are desperate

24 replies 1 4 30

paul wheaton's pseudo blog

sleaze and anti-sleaze (or, soul building to cure a flood of sleaze)

41 replies [ 1, 2 ] 3 2 36

meaningless drivel

Food Forest / Roadside Orchard - Unpleasant Drama

17 replies 25

gardening for beginners

Weird thought: Is BIGGER better?

26 replies 20

quail and pigeons

Dove or pigeon?

11 replies 3 3

tinkering with this site

We have new staff! Please help me welcome Richard Gorny and Nathanael Szobody

19 replies 2 34 64

gardening for beginners

Gardening in the wrong climate?

16 replies 7

bugs

who's chomping on my cannas?

22 replies 14 16

soil

What is potash?

12 replies 1 17

goats and sheep

favorite goat breeds

28 replies 2 34

permaculture design

Is anything in nature random?

26 replies 2 1 20

flowers

Permies Poll: How many rose bushes do you have?

28 replies 10 11

transportation

What's inside?

21 replies 26 16

meaningless drivel

Strange things I have done

12 replies 36

meaningless drivel

"Send this to a friend and say nothing"

9 replies 1 2

finishes

Paint made from gum Arabic and hydrated lime? For use on cob.

6 replies 9 6

projects

permaculture polytunnel or Nancy's undercover gardening

13 replies 19 11

projects

Project creep - Hobbit Forge

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