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Who heats a kettle full of water for a cup of tea?

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Safety Strategies for Tornados and High Winds

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Where Are All the Examples of Economic Success?

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Label it!

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If you want to help someone working around the homestead, please don't (insert action here).

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No Grocery Stores or Restaurants for a Year

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Hand tools: What’s better done the old fashioned way?

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If you could start all over again…

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Things you wish you had known

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Uses for feed bags

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Permie Practice: Daily Skill-building Ideas

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Escape from the Suburbs

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Incorporating kids in homesteading

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Temporary living strategies while building

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I have a massive brush pile, what are my options?

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Escargot husbandry

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Requesting recipes for non-toxic, garden-friendly “white wash”

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Best homestead conveniences

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How to search for land/property to live on

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*Welcome to the "Permaculture Technology Jamboree" Instructors!

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I may have drunk the Kool Aid

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Wind or tornados vs stick frame construction

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North Central Kentucky Homestead Build

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Safety on the ‘stead

11 replies 4

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mortgages - good debt and bad debt, property ownership / renting for a liftime

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Leach Fields

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mysterious concrete cavity-what is it?

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Personal Update

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Should I start a homestead while single?

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Pallets

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what major features would your dream homestead include?

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What’s your favorite tractor/ machinery for building your homestead.

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Uncle Mud at Jackrabbit Springs Permaculture Homestead

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Advice on dealing with Tennessee water laws

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What do you start seeds IN?

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Raw land or existing structures?

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Interior solid window shutters versus blackout curtain and pelmet systems

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cleaning up after logging?

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Best design for a simple outdoor wood stove for maple sugaring

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Chickens Refuse to Roost

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Installing gravel drive, first timer questions

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Forced reductions in water consumption

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Starting my retirement planning for a homestead/food forest. Need advice. Disabled Veteran

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Storm shelter?

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Buying Burnt Land - Northern New Mexico may have a lot to choose from in the coming year...

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What is going on with this place?

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How do you exercise for fun on the homestead

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Q's building an alaskan homestead

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How possible is it to un-growify a grow farm

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Analysis Paralysis

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Alternative water sources (just in case)

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Quitting my "cooperate job", going to buy and live off the land!

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Kids + Homestead = Spiders/Dangerous Critters!!??

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Homesteading 1/2 acre

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Health insurance on the homestead

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Can anyone identify this material?

4 replies 1 2

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Exploring abandoned homesteads

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How can I further reduce chicken feed consumption

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Living near nuclear power plant, are solar panels worthwhile?

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Tightening an existing woven wire fence?

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