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Caleb's Bootcamp Experience (BRK)

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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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art

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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Mistborn score - any good?

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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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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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art

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

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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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Discovery of a Plant That Attracts Ants and Protects Legumes from Beetle Attacks

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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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Hope for a sewer lagoon?

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medicinal herbs

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Raised Beds In Mediterranean Climate

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My Chayote Squash Journey

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trees

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"PANIS NOSTER" bread oven/smoker with BBR firebox

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Home Depot classes

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Help ID local weeds...

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What do you use instead of store bought cooking spray?

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House oriented North-South. How do I warm the northern bedrooms?

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Permaculture meetup group

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How do you keep your spices?

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New Build First Generation Batchbox 6" Double Brick Bell

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wood burning stoves

Tlud analog? Easy to make " reactive" furnace \ stove

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pep food prep

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Make a debris shelter - PEM BB traditional.straw.debris

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Log in leaves me stranded Am I the only one?

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stone work

Curved dry stacked wall

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Why farmers may want to keep, not kill, weeds

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