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jokes

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Game - Picture Association

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You know you're a permie when...

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

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Hilarious, rib tickling memes

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SEPP to Boot: Stephen's Experience (BEL)

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Music of the Moment

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fruit trees

A lot about apples!

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permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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Quote of the day

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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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watercolour questions so beginner, I'm almost afraid to ask

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The official permies.com Book Review Grid with more than 100 books listed

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The aging homesteader

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hugelkultur

Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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Smaugust 2025 art challenge (there are dragons)

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

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art

Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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a college degree in 2025/2026/2027 ... don't

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

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garden plans, records, results, hopes.....

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Are hobbies dead?

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art

Permaculture-core: what is the permaculture aesthetic?

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art

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

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

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Americans, please don't use 2 letter abbreviations for your state!

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

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

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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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art

'French box easel' - can it really work for painting out and about?

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

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this forum is for gardeners, homesteaders and permaculture people

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What do you do for work?

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JP and The Eternal Now (BEL)

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Improving the permies.com sign-up process

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Opportunity for carpenter and family in Northern CA

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Free and frugal soup

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food as medicine

A permaculture approach to managing and treating autism

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30 Years Of Composting Humanure

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Food forest dream = too much fruit / sugar?

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To draw a garden when I'm not an artist

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rocket mass heaters

Stratification chambers (Bells) explained

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composting

What is Compost?

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earthworks

Capturing 100% of precipitation

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cooking

Meat Pies

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cooking

Holiday foods from perennial crops

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Winter Foods that Taste Like Summer

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rocket mass heaters

Leaning tower of Pizza

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rocket ovens

Cob and brick oven with rocket technology

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Why is where you live the best place to be?

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cooking

what's for dinner?

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Goofy weather swings

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Paralysis by analysis...

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Herbal Hugel Spiral of Randomness!

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Perennial Discussions

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Hardy Yam - Dioscorea

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Change a letter game

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personal challenges

Check in - are you okay?

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perennial vegetables

Asparagus from seed in ground?

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rocket mass heaters

Bench for a rocket stove

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fruit trees

Peach tree borers

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soil

What made the biggest difference in your soil over the long run?

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fish

Crayfish farming

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fruit trees

Aphids and Leaf Curl

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My version of Elizabeth Cotten's "Freight Train"

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21F - France - Seeking a simple, nature-based life

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root cellars

Root cellar design - one or two intakes?

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Here's a stupid joke

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Cool towns to visit in northern NM?

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home care

Buy-it-for-life stainless whisk

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chickens

Can you really grow all of your chickens feed?

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ozarks

Permaculture Farm with Food Forest for Rent in the Ozarks.

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dogs and cats

New family member

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rocket stoves

Rocket Stoves

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seeds and breeding

Easiest and Hardest Seeds to Save

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permaculture singles

F Baby Boomer with 20 years of homesteads looking for a friend or partner on my farm in Ecuador.

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rocket mass heaters

How rocket mass heaters domesticate the chimney fire

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rocket mass heaters

all (41!) of the rocket mass heaters and rocket contraptions at wheaton labs (with pics!)

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Rocket Mass Heater Resources Wiki

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