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Smaugust 2025 art challenge (there are dragons)

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Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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Unapparent disability

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Are hobbies dead?

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Glazing and underpainting - for the frugal oil painter (grisaille, brunaille, verdaille, etc)

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What's for Dinner?

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

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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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Blenril Apricot Scion for Pacific Northwest

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Dahlia landracing project in the far north of Scotland

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hunting and fishing

Permies Poll: What type of fishing reel do you usually use?

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Recycling centers closing?

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earth auger style toilet

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root crops

Urgent: Walking onions and freezing

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gear

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fungi

I found these 2 beauties

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rocket mass heaters

Design help needed for RMH fitment.

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Ah, for the love of sprained ankles!!

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soil

A stupid fear getting in my way

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Ahhh, for the love of tractors

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rocket mass heaters

Are you interested in building a rocket mass heater? What is holding you back?

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Would you rather ... eat licorice or eat candy corn?

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crowdfunding

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Unusual purchases you’ve made approaching or in your 40’s…

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PEP Badge: Oddball

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Plot 5: a new urban Community garden

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Questions on feeding a wether sheep

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tiny house

Skiddable Work Shack

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Use and benefits of using Caucasian Mountain spinach in our gardens.

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can you turn a kiva fireplace into a rocket mass heater?

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aquaponics

Can aquaponics really be permaculture?

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PEP 2 Certification - Apply, Boast, and Certify Here

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beans

Best ways to get runner bean tubers to overwinter and regrow quickly?

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permaculture real estate

Looking for a postage stamp in Southern Maine!

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biodynamic

the weeds we love

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gardening for beginners

Garden on this concrete, or remove all/some?

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great white north

Need info for north climate solar greenhouse.

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ethics and philosophy

my thoughts are sometimes better expressed by others.....

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dogs and cats

Socializing livestock guardian dogs to humans

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plants

Tunnel of plants

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homestead

Mold growth in my bathroom

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In the quiet hours of the bootcamp grind, I found myself: Esteban's Bootcamp Experience

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