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gardening for beginners

What's your favorite "alternate" product of a garden plant?

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wheaton laboratories

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

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cooking

Why do you like spicy food?

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cooking

What else can I cook at 350F for one hour?

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rocket ovens

Help with A Used Rocket Oven

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pigs

Livestock guardian pig

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meaningless drivel

Money saving tip?

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natural building

Most cost effective small building technique

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cover crops

Purple Top Turnip - Cover Crop Potential?

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trees

Chestnut advice

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meaningless drivel

What to watch on Prime video Canada?

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rainwater catchment

Existing potable water cistern

46 replies [ 1, 2 ] 4 3 16

meaningless drivel

Washing jeans

12 replies 1 1 7

rocket mass heaters

Procrastinating? Don't... Here's why you NEED to build a batch rocket heater!

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meaningless drivel

What is this spoon called?

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repair

Adventures in domestic appliance repair (by a complete and utter noob)

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meaningless drivel

Would you rather have 6 foot high raised beds or lots of gates?

10 replies 9

tinkering with this site

updated the two bootcamp pages - PRAISE ME!

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plumbing

My plumber just earned £2280/hour... not sure whether to be pleased or not

14 replies 1 8

textile tools

New Loom, What to Do?

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meaningless drivel

Latest Scams.

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soil

raining non-stop

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wheaton laboratories

Back the BEL - Invest in Permaculture

2 9

tiny house

Skiddable Work Shack

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toilet alternatives

Help me design a very small bucket outhouse

24 replies 1 12

rocket mass heaters

New here, first post, I have been researching all different designs, and I came up with my own.

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plants

This plant is taking over...

22 replies 2 5

cooking

salad dressing made from garbanzo beans

17 replies 2 9

bugs

Ant question

14 replies 8

meaningless drivel

The people growing their own toilet paper (Plectranthus barbatus) - BBC

18 replies 1 16

rocket mass heaters

Leaning tower of Pizza

20 replies 5 9

plant fibers

Stone Age (neolithicum and before) techniques

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gear

Upgrading tractor hydraulics

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homestead

Riona's micro-homesteading thread

36 replies 18

art

painting over a painting?

6 replies 1

meaningless drivel

Where are the Wombles?

17 replies 4 6 8

plants

Let's talk tomatoes

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pep food prep

Preserve 1 million calories at the Harmon house

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cooking

Fried rice

28 replies 6 12

wood burning stoves

Matt Walker Tiny Stove build in Spain

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tinkering with this site

Forum Questions

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bread

What is the strangest thing you have ever used to make bread?

23 replies 9 5

gear

Why do hot water tanks have such a bad rep?

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alliums

Just pathetic

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tinkering with this site

Idea: Permission video library

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art

Spontaneous combustion science - is oil painting going to burn down my house?

13 replies 2 1 7

plants

Best plants to plant and forget? Perennials or self seeders.

31 replies 13

meaningless drivel

We need words for these things

15 replies 14

textile techniques

Crochet has been added to the hobby list

28 replies 9 11

meaningless drivel

How are you all doing from under a blanket of snow?

22 replies 9 8

recycling

Bring out your dead! - Old Pianos

29 replies 1 14

electrical

Off grid A/C solutions?

34 replies 5 9

low tech

Reflecting light in a house

8 replies 1 1 8

clothing

How to Wear a Renaissance Corset?

12 replies 5 7

wildlife

Scat Identification Thread

15 replies 4 2

meaningless drivel

Just saw new device—laser weeder!!

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home care

Citric Acid - Uses?

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meaningless drivel

A Wedding present for those who don't want it all.

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cooking

Uses for Tomato Skins/Seeds from Food Processing?

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chickens

How many eggs can I pile up before they start to crack?

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