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Best topics in this week

How do you get dandelion milk stains out of a shirt?

Has anyone had luck raising goats without chemicals?

how does rhubarb sprout from a root section without a crown?

if you like this community and want to see it thrive

How to repurpose a beer keg?

What pitchfork have you found to be the sturdiest?

Granny Gravel Bitch and Her Allerton Abbey Adventures...WOFATI WOMAAANN (BEL)

Nitrate free bacon

Game Boards FTW (for the win)

May promotions!

Microsoft Edge tool bar font size for date and time?

The wool problem is the solution... I hope

Critique my plan

What can I do with (surprise!) coco coir?

Inquiring Advice on Site Layout for Future Homestead

Animal Farm

Do laser cutters have a place in permaculture yet?

How to see recent BBs in PEP forums?

How difficult are RVs to work on? What makes them so bad?

Help identifying a plant #1

Meat chicken tractor turf removal

Persimmon borers

Sumac varnish/resin?

Help identifying a plant #2

Crazy? cistern thinking.

Scared a mama turkey

Removing plastic when growing micro-greens

Earth home heating

Our Mud Brick House is completed. 41 degree cel outside and 31 degree inside. That was worth it!

Podcast 741 - Eat what you Grow

Another salvaged rocket oven

Growing corn in drylands

all commercial mulches are loaded with persistent herbicides

Cypress tree removal possible usage ideas

Well Water Filter

Podcast 742 - Basecamp Walkies

Trullo conical rooves, flat stones, no mortar

Fruit Tree Guild understory spacing and Asparagus

Long term food or healing plants for all times to come.

Recipe: Water Pie with 5 Minute Crust

Rehoming a Honey Bee Hive

Torpedo Propane gas heater

Urine and other inoculants for biochar

Very Specific Few Questions about Light Straw Clay + Lime plaster

I Think Something Is Bugging My Cactus

Pear trees

I tested this millet bread recipe.

My First Professional Natural Building Design - Going Live in Vermont, 2026!!

F, 40 yo, Bisexual, ME/CFS, 45 min of Bozeman, MT

Layering Tulip Bulbs in Pots for Longer Blooms

Blackberry/raspberry polyculture

A little help from my friend

Tipping bucket first flush diverter

Orange spots on mycelium

From the Spring Foraging Cookbook: Thlapsi and Toothwort

will dill seed and anise seed grow from organic spice bottles

52 M looking for a female partner and friend

Tornado suppresion

Willamette Community Movie Night - Polyfaces May 8th, 2026

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energy

monies

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