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Music of the Moment

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permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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

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Are hobbies dead?

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art

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

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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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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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What do you do for work?

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My Homestead Planning for 2026 - for consultation with Paul

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Forming group to create intentional community

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Permies Poll: How do you compost?

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communication

What would be best ways to attract more young people to permaculture?

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bugs

Where did all the tomato horn worms go?

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Struggle meals

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Rebekah's 800 plates journal

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Earlybird bundle for Sourdough Without Fail: October 7th-10th, 2025

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Dying Cucumbers

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Apples! Red Apples! What is Your Favorite?

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pea

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dynamic accumulators

Dandelion - Dynamic Accumulator?

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Driving vs. Flying

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2 coat hooks from a small branch crotch - PEP BB roundwood.sand.hook

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wood burning stoves

Building to hold out the Russian winters

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