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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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Ways to cope with thick wildfire smoke

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

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ponds

My Unexpected Frog Pond

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low tech

Solar Food Dryers?

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My city farm

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Air Well - collecting water from the air

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Carrying things on your head

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Helping Out and Earning Ones Keep

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scythes

I'm terrible at scything!

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gear

Tractors, necessary, or luxury?

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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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Tips to protect your home during forest fires

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Replacing broken tool handles

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Winnerwell Foldfast Oven question

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What digging fork have you found to be the sturdiest?

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How much land does a good life require?

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Thinking about buying red---worth it?

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

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Permaculture Smackdown: Keeping Yourself Motivated as a Homesteader

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Missing septic tank

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Lee Valley scythe - what do you think?

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Wildfireproofing the Permies way.

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Self-doubt about future plans for land & house

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Water stain on ceiling—oh my!

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

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Scythe mowing in very dry conditions

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What were your biggest misconceptions of off-grid living?

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gear

Hoemanship - Favorite type of Hoe?

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PVD: Passive Vehicular Dehydration

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Do you have an anvil?

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Capturing 100% of precipitation

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Observations on Grasshoppers

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Protected outdoor equipment storage

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Wildfireproofing the Permies way.

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Selling 11.5 acres with a semi-offgrid efficient house in North Idaho

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Water stain on ceiling—oh my!

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Bio-Remediation for Mine Tailings

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The aging homesteader

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Trace's Minneapolis Area Food Oasis' (building towards sustainable human settlement)

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Ways to cope with thick wildfire smoke

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Outdoor Wash Station / Sink ideas?

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Extreme snow (upper MI living)

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Hello from Homestead Academy! Making self-sufficiency simple

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A brief story of Russian family homesteads.

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Surviving like an 11th Century farmer

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My city farm

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Lee Valley scythe - what do you think?

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What equipment should we request in our soil-improvement grant application?

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Build your own oil press, yields oil and dry nut meal. Oh, wind powered too!

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App or book to organize everything on my homestead

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Favorite Summer beverages

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The House of Riona, Micro Homesteading 2026

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EggMap Mobile

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Anyone here close to being self sufficient and “living off the land” to a significant degree?

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Homemade Blueberry Wine

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Free rent on a farm in Fresno County California

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Permaculture Smackdown: Keeping Yourself Motivated as a Homesteader

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Here is a little walk around my homestead

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Help with my Keyline! Trying to determine my keypoints and keylines on my farmland (goat farm)

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Is your farm trying to kill you?

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Basic welding equipment?

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

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Giving up (sort of, but not really)

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

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Jeremy's Pushcart

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Root Cellar Build.

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