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The aging homesteader

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women peeing outdoors

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What is a fair price per acre for land?

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Garden on Corliss Homestead Journal

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gear

Tool thoughts for women

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Brandon and Nikki's Homestead

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wildfire

Ways to cope with thick wildfire smoke

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earthworks

Major earthworks starting -- central texas

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Crypto-permie homesteaders on Nat Geo TV show "Live Free Or Die"

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ponds

My Unexpected Frog Pond

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I thought I had prepared - turns out sickness whacked my perfect world

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low tech

Solar Food Dryers?

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homestead

My city farm

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homestead

Air Well - collecting water from the air

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low tech

Carrying things on your head

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homestead

Helping Out and Earning Ones Keep

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gear

Tractors, necessary, or luxury?

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scythes

I'm terrible at scything!

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homestead

Farm For All - A Journal Of Sorts

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How to time growing a family and starting a homestead?

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gear

Replacing broken tool handles

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low tech

Winnerwell Foldfast Oven question

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gear

What digging fork have you found to be the sturdiest?

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homestead

ACCURATE fire prevention advice please!

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homestead

How much land does a good life require?

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gear

Thinking about buying red---worth it?

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low tech

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

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homestead

Missing septic tank

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Permaculture Smackdown: Keeping Yourself Motivated as a Homesteader

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gear

Upgrading tractor hydraulics

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Self-doubt about future plans for land & house

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homestead

Food self-sufficiency for 9 people on 10 acres, what would you do?

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scythes

Scythe mowing in very dry conditions

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homestead

What were your biggest misconceptions of off-grid living?

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gear

Hoemanship - Favorite type of Hoe?

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gear

Do you have an anvil?

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low tech

PVD: Passive Vehicular Dehydration

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earthworks

Capturing 100% of precipitation

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homestead

How do you know your water is clean?

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Are Farm Animals the Most Underrated Emotional Support Animals?

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Giving up (sort of, but not really)

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gear

More tractor = Better say reptile caveman part of brain!

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gear

Recommendation for Tire Inlator or Compressor when on the road?

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Summer time... and the living is easy???

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gear

Troy-Bilt Tomahawk Wood Chipper/Shredder model 47285 -- anybody have an operating manual?

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Jeremy's Pushcart

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The aging homesteader

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Garden on Corliss Homestead Journal

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Permies Poll - Have you made candles before?

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Unplanned Function Stacking

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The Low Tech Magazine Pushcart

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Canadian family looking to join homestead

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wells and springs

Artesian Well Run Off

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Fokin ploskorez hoe by Ecominded

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Alaskan homestead seeking able-bodied help

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Help with Installing Malwarebytes?

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Wheelbarrow Boat

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gear

JD cushion came off seat

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Just a Quick Friendly Reminder...

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Concho, Arizona Homesteading

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How to search for land/property to live on

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Reactivating a 500-year-old WINDMILL to grind grain using wind power

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The House of Riona, Micro Homesteading 2026

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My city farm

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To Mound or Not??

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Cheap deer fencing

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Missing septic tank

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How much land does a good life require?

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gear

Amazing ploskorez - to replace usual spade, hoe, rakes etc...

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Like pen and paper, or a typewriter, but does more.

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2-wheel tiller advice (europe)

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ponds

converting a heavy rain disaster into a permaculture paradise

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gear

Planting stick

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gear

Future Tractor Attachments and Modifications

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PVD: Passive Vehicular Dehydration

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Laundry with resource limitations

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scythes

Scythe mowing in very dry conditions

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ponds

the first steps in pond design on questionable land

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root cellars

Root Cellar Build.

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Venting frustration and hopelessness in land search

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