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The aging homesteader

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women peeing outdoors

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What is a fair price per acre for land?

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Garden on Corliss Homestead Journal

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gear

Tool thoughts for women

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homestead

Brandon and Nikki's Homestead

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wildfire

Ways to cope with thick wildfire smoke

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earthworks

Major earthworks starting -- central texas

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homestead

Crypto-permie homesteaders on Nat Geo TV show "Live Free Or Die"

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ponds

My Unexpected Frog Pond

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homestead

I thought I had prepared - turns out sickness whacked my perfect world

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low tech

Solar Food Dryers?

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homestead

My city farm

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homestead

Air Well - collecting water from the air

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low tech

Carrying things on your head

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homestead

Helping Out and Earning Ones Keep

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gear

Tractors, necessary, or luxury?

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scythes

I'm terrible at scything!

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homestead

Farm For All - A Journal Of Sorts

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How to time growing a family and starting a homestead?

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gear

Replacing broken tool handles

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low tech

Winnerwell Foldfast Oven question

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gear

What digging fork have you found to be the sturdiest?

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homestead

ACCURATE fire prevention advice please!

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gear

Thinking about buying red---worth it?

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low tech

Any ideas how to haul long logs from the woods with no vehicle?

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homestead

Permaculture Smackdown: Keeping Yourself Motivated as a Homesteader

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homestead

Missing septic tank

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How much land does a good life require?

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gear

Upgrading tractor hydraulics

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low tech

Solar chimney thoughts

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homestead

Self-doubt about future plans for land & house

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gear

How do you use clothespins, beyond pinning clothes?

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homestead

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

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scythes

Scythe mowing in very dry conditions

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homestead

What were your biggest misconceptions of off-grid living?

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gear

Do you have an anvil?

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low tech

PVD: Passive Vehicular Dehydration

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earthworks

Capturing 100% of precipitation

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homestead

How do you know your water is clean?

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2-wheel tiller advice (europe)

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ponds

converting a heavy rain disaster into a permaculture paradise

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Planting stick

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homestead

How much land does a good life require?

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gear

Future Tractor Attachments and Modifications

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low tech

PVD: Passive Vehicular Dehydration

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low tech

Laundry with resource limitations

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scythes

Scythe mowing in very dry conditions

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Missing septic tank

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low tech

Fokin ploskorez hoe by Ecominded

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ponds

the first steps in pond design on questionable land

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The aging homesteader

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SOLD Homestead for sale Texas

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Concho, Arizona Homesteading

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gear

Do you have an anvil?

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gear

Replacing broken tool handles

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Homesteading as the way of life

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My city farm

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Multi-function kitchen work station

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gear

Like pen and paper, or typewriter, but does more.

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The House of Riona, Micro Homesteading 2026

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Unplanned Function Stacking

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gear

Could use some advice on pole chainsaw use. (limbs pinching the chainsaw bar.)

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ponds

harvesting water, in a desert, safely, from a polluted road

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low tech

Any ideas how to haul long logs from the woods with no vehicle?

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wells and springs

Sprinkler pumps? shallow (30') well pumps for irrigation?

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gear

Old-time veg chopper for livestock feed.

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homestead

Off grid for women alone

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gear

Walking tractors David Bradley, why they are not used more? and other discussions.

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mortgages - good debt and bad debt, property ownership / renting for a liftime

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Sulfur repels ticks?

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homestead

The Shift Begins: Why Homesteading Is Rising Across Europe

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ponds

Can I make this into a small pond?

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homestead

Simplify Now: A Calmer Way to Handle Chaotic Times

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gear

What digging fork have you found to be the sturdiest?

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homestead

Just bought a new homestead, what do you think of my new site?

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Garden on Corliss Homestead Journal

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earthworks

Digging a Ramp for a Tractor

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low tech

Technology in permaculture

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ponds

how to create natural aeration

8 years ago 3 replies

ponds

pond algae, please help.

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