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gamcod

GAMCOD 2025: 200 square feet; Zero degrees F or colder; calories cheap and easy

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jokes

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plumbing

Need Help: How to Install a Toilet Properly?

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gardening for beginners

Planting by Phenology (Natural Plant and Animal Cycles)

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hugelkultur

Inherited Hugel - need Advice

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How to preserve sweet potatoes, if you grow way too many.

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music

Music of the Moment

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forest garden

Building a food forest on the edge of the desert.

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What kind of Pizza do you like?

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use a real sounding name - no edge cases please

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deleting stuff

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chickens

Easy DIY Chick Brooder

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web sites

Hearham com / RepeaterSTART, special PI DAY sale this weekend!

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cherries

Nanking Cherry: An underrated fruit?

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seeds and breeding

"Seed-snail" testing thread, 2025

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sewing

The great closet renewal project

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pep textiles

Sew a simple shirt - PEP BB textile.straw.sew.t-shirt

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homestead

Free rent on a farm in Fresno County California

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cooking

what's for dinner?

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meaningless drivel

Hobby, crafting, or art no-buy anyone? (perennial self-accountability thread)

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gear

propane on demand hot water heaters (no electricity)

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recycling

Recycling in the 18th Century

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biochar

How long does biochar last?

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soil

building soil on sand

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tinkering with this site

gir bot

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horses, donkeys and mules

Wild burros are destroying my property!

4 days ago 9 replies 2

grey water

Permies Poll: Do you utilize Grey Water on your homestead?

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alternative energy

Modern safe advanced steam engines

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tinkering with this site

site traffic

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gardening for beginners

Cold Stratification for the Total Novice

4 days ago 15 replies 1 4

gardening for beginners

Tips/Tricks for transplanting trees and bushes

4 days ago 3 replies 1

kit buildings

Anyone have experience or opinions about "EZ Log" type buildings?

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getting set up

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intentional community

Eastern TN vegan ecovillage sanctuary

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seeds and breeding

Seed storage desiccants

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composting

breeding black soldier flies - Anything else I can do - or give up?

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cooking

Kala Namak

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meaningless drivel

Favorite Childhood Garden Memories

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dogs and cats

Raising Great Pyrenees on a Raw Diet- Raising Rabbits for Meat

4 days ago 17 replies 1

meaningless drivel

WTF? Has duckduckgo sold its soul? OMG!

5 days ago 14 replies 17

gear

Any experience with small-ish drum mowers for haying?

5 days ago 0 replies

trees

Szechuan pepper tree ( Zanthoxylum)

5 days ago 11 replies 7 5

flea market

[Free/Trade] High Sugar Honey Locust Seeds USA

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