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gear

What is it.... the game! Post unknown objects to ID... and to stump others!

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Garden picture exchange!

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women peeing outdoors

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Dave Burton's Boot Adventures at Wheaton Labs and Basecamp

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What is a fair price per acre for land?

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The aging homesteader

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Brandon and Nikki's Homestead

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the solutions are simple

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gear

Tool thoughts for women

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Major earthworks starting -- central texas

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Landrace Gardening

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

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Using a cast iron skillet ain't so hard!

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Show Us What You Are Hauling On Your Bike

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Ways to cope with thick wildfire smoke

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root cellars

Fall Decor Pumpkins/squash that are excellent eating

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gear

Solar Food Dryers?

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homestead

Here Is Our Micro-Homestead. Enjoy.

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best wood for a wooden spoon

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How to time growing a family and starting a homestead?

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

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Small, easy projects that make a big difference

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Human chainsaw

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A well-designed small house makes life much simpler!

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gear

Hand chain saws

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gear

Tools! My grandfather's and my uncle's

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Just Use Less!

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How do you drought-proof your permaculture project?

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root cellars

Historical Root Cellars

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What do you do when you find a sign saying "free yarn"?

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Lone wolf vs. giving up my dreams vs. Lone wolf planning for success

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ponds

Chinampa in marshy area - water terraces

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What is a water garden?

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gear

Who can guess what's wrong with this engine?

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gear

Please explain heat pumps to me like I'm an 8 year old

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gear

Where do you store your gardening tools?

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gear

Starting a new homestead from scratch - what are the most essential tools?

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low tech

Using Kites to do work

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What to know before we go to our first SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) event?

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How much money to save before proceeding to forge a new life?

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Closer to getting the chicken coop

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A well-designed small house makes life much simpler!

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Swales on heavily forested land

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Venting frustration and hopelessness in land search

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Build or buy?

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Using old milk churn for storage of drinking water?

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Starting a new homestead from scratch - what are the most essential tools?

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Exit and Build III: May 18th-22nd. 2023

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The aging homesteader

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Spring and Mystery Basement Pipes Mystery

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Moat instead of pond ?

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Twig burning can stove

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Tell me about your experiences homesteading in Europe

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Low tech solutions: sticks!

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gear

Do you have an old-fashioned sawbuck? Do you have ANY sawbuck? How'd you make it? Let us see it!

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4 year into it!

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gear

Angle grinder incident...

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learnings after first year-ish of actual vs. imagination homesteading

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Covert Urban Homesteading, Article, Thoughts?

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Pond and very loud tree frog noise

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A Costal Northern California Homestead

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80 Acre Northern California homestead Eco Community Build?

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Overwintering carrots?

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Screen house build and what to plant

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gear

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

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Very low tech small power generation or work

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Financial rules for buying property

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gear

Peasant Hoes: Inside Bevel or Outside Bevel

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very small urban pond - fill via roof runoff, use for irrigation, and?

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Temporary living strategies while building

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gear

Natural methods of restoring and protecting saw blades

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Timber harvest

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Growing large gourds for storage containers

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Automatic hay baler plans

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Compound Mallet

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gear

Tool thoughts for women

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Water management for flat ground

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Tiny, urban, no-pump pond

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What is the best way to sharpen a knife?

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gear

Secateurs for small (and weak) hands ?

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Natural swimming pond v 3

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earthworks

Cocoa Plantation following Keyline Concept

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spring-fed hand-dug pond, test digging

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Can vegetable oil damage a chainsaw?

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Site selection water considerations

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