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

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permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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PEPPERS in action

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The simple pleasures of the day (please add your own)

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Caleb's Bootcamp Experience (BRK)

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Smaugust 2025 art challenge (there are dragons)

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Unapparent disability

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Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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Are hobbies dead?

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Permaculture-core: what is the permaculture aesthetic?

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Seth's Lazer-Focused, Long-Winded, Lively List of Lab Lessons (BEL)

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The Glorious Revolution - 25th of May - Pratchett and discworld

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Carrying things on your head

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Making my own watercolors with natural pigments (both homemade and storebought)

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Electrosensitivity - Can Earth-Sheltered and/or Earthen-Walled Structures Help Us?

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Catherine The Grateful - not permaculture farm, lessons from the field (BEL)

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Americans with recent experience buying from Canada? (Summer-fall 2025)

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JP and The Eternal Now (BEL)

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flowers

hibiscus? Roselle!

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Native easy to direct sow plants for swales in clay soil in sierra foothills?

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What staples do you always have on hand?

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Stop wasting money by buying whole chicken and learning to break it down and use it all

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Creative watering techniques?

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urban gardening

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Fifteen Years of Humanure

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perennial vegetables

Tuberous Jerusalem sage

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plums

Plums: An underrated fruit?

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intentional community

ISO: Colorado communities

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Permaculture Internship at Jubilee Partners

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Goat Herd Partner – Under the Hoof Farm (NW Florida)

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projects

Working to build a parabolic solar cooker templates....

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market garden

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