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Music of the Moment

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A lot about apples!

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

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The aging homesteader

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

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Are hobbies dead?

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What's for Dinner?

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art

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

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

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

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Food self-sufficiency for 9 people on 10 acres, what would you do?

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urban gardening

Homesteading in Cities

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gear

Hoemanship - Favorite type of Hoe?

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cooking

Popcorn Seasoning?

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Bulk beef: how do you like it cut up? What do you struggle to cook with?

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fruit trees

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Looking for an off-grid partner

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root crops

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urban gardening

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frugality

Lye from Ashes

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My Burning Question: How do you pronounce "Peridot"?

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scythes

American or European?

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chickens

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rocket mass heaters

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missoula

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upcycling

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cooking

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plants

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earth bag

Deck with steps

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plants

Badass Tough Plants You Know Of

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gardening for beginners

Garden on this concrete, or remove all/some?

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Mold growth in my bathroom

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