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You know you're a permie when...

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Hilarious, rib tickling memes

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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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PEPPERS in action

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

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

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Caleb's Bootcamp Experience (BRK)

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Smaugust 2025 art challenge (there are dragons)

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Unapparent disability

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Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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Hobby, crafting, or art no-buy anyone? (perennial self-accountability thread)

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propagation

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

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ethics and philosophy

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

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Are hobbies dead?

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art

Permaculture-core: what is the permaculture aesthetic?

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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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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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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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What's for Dinner?

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

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What do you do for work?

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JP and The Eternal Now (BEL)

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Batch Rocket 7" single bell build.

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homestead

My city farm

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fruit trees

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forest garden

Medicinal forest gardening

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Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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

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recycling

What can be done with agricultural plastic films, urban plastic waste, and industrial plastic scraps

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First flights of the Studio Dragon

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Hoemanship - Favorite type of Hoe?

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stone work

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Is this lentinus crinitus?

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"run the site my way or else I will leave"

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ecovillage

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will this j work?

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Log in leaves me stranded Am I the only one?

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Holding the heat overnight, the importance of shutting off the air flow.

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What do you do for work?

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art

moss or flower bomb on vertical surface

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fish

Our Aquaculture Venture

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smaller government?

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crowdfunding

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Shaping a Ring - Jewelry Maintenance

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Gardening playing cards for gardeners and homesteaders Kickstarter

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Christian safe-haven in British Columbia

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straw bale house

Timber portal frame building wrapped with straw bales

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All-in-One Permaculture Design App

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trees

Planting 24,000 trees in Ireland

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Compost in place method

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aquaponics

Can aquaponics really be permaculture?

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grapes

Bugs or Fungus

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forest garden

2020 Forest Garden Plan.

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My version of Elizabeth Cotten's "Freight Train"

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crowdfunding

Best ways to crowdfund

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fermentation

Do I have to use tea for kombucha?

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intentional community

Seeking vice-free off-grid community.

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personal challenges

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

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forest garden

Free Fertilizer from Wildlife

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meralgia paresthetica exercises (outer thigh numbness and pain)

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