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

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A lot about apples!

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

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The aging homesteader

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meaningless drivel

Northern Lights alert

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

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Talk me out of (or into) a ukulele

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

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Someone lent me a guitar - how do I learn classical guitar

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2026 - arting - quick art share

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Best (foodsafe) paper mache paste recipe? And other advice.

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what if the cost of food goes up 10x?

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paul wheaton's pseudo blog

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

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meaningless drivel

Are hobbies dead?

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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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How do I learn to read music?

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Growing Apple Trees From Seed Naturally

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this forum is for gardeners, homesteaders and permaculture people

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

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Cigar box guitar and variations

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Oil paint as wood stain?

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victory gardens, 2026 version: what are your plans?

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frugality

Expedient insulation

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paul wheaton's pseudo blog

Automatic Backyard Food Pump

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What do you do for work?

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A thought on naked videos

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Hugelkultur Q&A Smackdown with Paul Wheaton and Beau Davidson

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gear

Replacing broken tool handles

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house plants

An Amaryllis Threw Seeds!

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lawn

Back-lapping (sharpening) an old-fashioned reel mower

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Crop rotation and permaculture

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cooking

Solution to the old "mould on my biltong" problem

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do we have a giant thread about hide glue yet?

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cooking

How to have healthy food around all the time

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Tell us about your allotment!

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Lake Pump Breaker Keeps Tripping

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New member

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food preservation

Dehydrating broccoli getting started.

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Growing azolla in an aquarium with water and wood ash. Forcing it to fix nitrogen from the air!

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intentional community

Help wanted, space available in East Tennessee

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Lovely 35 F SW MI looking for Love

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

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fruit trees

Saving a leaning apple tree

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plants

Are you growing a new vegetable this year?

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fungi

I’d like to know all the different wood chips I can use for Wine Cap production.

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natural building

Root Cellar Needed (fishing for ideas)

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wheaton laboratories

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

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reel mower?

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Critter behavior

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rocket mass heaters

Guidance on RMH build in a light wood construction

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fruit trees

Planting in stumps?

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natural building

My First Professional Natural Building Design - Going Live in Vermont, 2026!!

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natural building

REScheck - your path to proving energy compliance to the US Government

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WEEDS: a new permies . com dispatch on Substack

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Explaining Faceblindness

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biochar

My biochar production tally thread.

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dogs and cats

Just checking in

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gear

Like pen and paper, or typewriter, but does more.

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Using used vegetable oils for preserving wood structures in the garden or farm

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frugality

slugging - a carpool/hitchhike combo

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appalachia

Looking for like-minded people to buy property with

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chickens

Brooding 4 week old chicks

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alliums

Lay your garlic growing knowledge on me

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ecovillage

Dream of starting permie homestead/ecovillage in Maine, looking for opinions.

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gardening for beginners

New herb garden behind house

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rainwater catchment

Is there a simple way to divide the rain from a gutter into two equal directions

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southwest usa

Now that is an old tree

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bugs

earwigs destroying the garden

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ethics and philosophy

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

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

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