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pep

PEPPERS in action

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

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The aging homesteader

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

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Talk me out of (or into) a ukulele

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Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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Are hobbies dead?

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2026 - arting - quick art share

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

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art

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

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Hybrid systems/understanding the placement of mass in a system

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Designing My First RMH 7" Batch Box

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Vons 8" BBR

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What can I do with the sugar sand byproduct of maple syrup?

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grey water & septics

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Fermenting whole apples?

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How to best use non-chicken eggs in the kitchen?

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Share your gardening plans for 2026!!

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ponds

Birch Bark to seal ponds?

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medicinal herbs

Medicinal Garden Kit

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What equipment should we request in our soil-improvement grant application?

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homestead

Uses for pallets

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Hemp bedding & Mushrooms?

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Steam powered rocket stove?

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bugs

Black soldier fly larvae

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My Greenhouse Project

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Help us Develop 7 acre farm in Puerto Rico?

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Principles vs. practice: a replacement for comfrey

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Peaches: An underrated fruit?

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High brix - low/no pest connection?

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Is Archeology important for permaculture?

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intentional community

OK Ozarks 1,000+ Acre Off-Grid Christian Community

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Exterior/Interior walls re-plastering for my 100 years old Village Home In Gujarat, India

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Roof Rennovation for my 100 years old Village Home In Gujarat, India

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biochar

Acidic Inoculants?

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multi flora rose invasion

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2026 - arting - quick art share

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goats and sheep

favorite sheep breeds

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gear

Compost Tea Lab aerators? other recommendations?

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My version of Elizabeth Cotten's "Freight Train"

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natural building

Stone masonry, roofing and ring beam advice needed for old stone house renovation in Portugal

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mulch

Leaf drop

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A lost skill, making coffee

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