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personal challenges

Anyone Here Living with an Emotional Support Animal on a Homestead

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So, is your Christmas tree still up?

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If you Could only have one Electronic Device, what would it be?

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A book for beginners

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personal challenges

Plugging up the Entry Door

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Permaculture Baby Names

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permaculture

What’s the most unexpectedly useful thing growing on your property right now?

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meaningless drivel

Happy New Year, Everyone!!

11 replies 2 5

solar

Solar power for 100 year old barn

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personal care

Bar Soap vs Liquid Soap

18 replies 10

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Share your gardening plans for 2026!!

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inspiration from nature: four leaf motif dishtowels in seasonal colors

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Would you rather create a new vegetable or a new garden tool?

11 replies 8

fermentation

Sowans and swats - forgotten Scottish oat ferments

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Do you still listen to albums?

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pigs

New piggies may 2026

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chickens

Two more birds down

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The history of the guitar

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Is Archeology important for permaculture?

10 replies 1 13

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Del Monte bankruptcy fallout for peach farmers

6 replies 7

solar

Keeping snow off solar panels

23 replies 3 7

rocket mass heaters

My new tiny house Masonry heater build

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tiny house

Thought experiment - convert a nissen shed

16 replies 9 5

wood burning stoves

Stove for a bomb shelter

36 replies 46 17

food as medicine

Refreshing homemade summer drinks for working outside

21 replies 1 7

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Me too!!

3 replies 2 12

plants

Poor Soil Plants - What can you get to grow?

24 replies 2 6

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Discworld quotes that fit

7 replies 17

chickens

How to catch a chicken?

17 replies 1 1 6

transportation

Car buying

13 replies 11

bicycle

I just bought a crappy looking bike. Not a department store bike.

10 replies 8

nuts

Stunted Chinese Chestnut Trees

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textile techniques

half-assed fiber projects

16 replies 46 8

conservation

Why Medieval Blanket Systems Worked At -40°F While Your 300$ Bedding Fails

15 replies 1 11

wildlife

Where'd the crickets go?

21 replies 2

cooking

Local Meal Challenge

21 replies 13

natural building

Full Time Yurt Living In Mediterranean Climate

10 replies

plants

Is comfrey supposed to look this happy?

12 replies 2 1

plants

What is this—its taking over my tall grass area.

25 replies 12 5

animal fibers

I want to show off my knitting

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tinkering with this site

I think a category is missing...or at least I couldn't find it

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tinkering with this site

Log in leaves me stranded Am I the only one?

11 replies 2

personal challenges

Is it just the seasons changing or do I need a new adventure?

17 replies 11

meaningless drivel

Happy National Pawpaw Day!

12 replies 1 7

medicinal herbs

Natural remedy for pain (e.g. headache, sore muscles)

15 replies 1 10

sculpture

Help me make a mobile

4 replies 1 5 5

gardening for beginners

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

15 replies 1 8

tiny house

Hay wagon as a base for a tiny home?

9 replies 1 1 6

grains and pseudograins

Farming and Selling Grain flours as a Small Business

10 replies 8

homestead

Ways to be more self sufficient with little to no land

12 replies 24

personal care

Natural mouthwash - suggestions please

17 replies 1 4

food preservation

Permies Poll: Do you maintain a root cellar?

14 replies 3

plants

Mints and other mints

20 replies 1 6

meaningless drivel

Perfect homestead vehicle

18 replies 5

plants

Help me ID two, maybe four types of comfrey?

12 replies 15 10

wildlife

What is your favorite bird?

19 replies 7 4

meaningless drivel

Ah, for the love of Kidney Stones!!

17 replies 2 14

tinkering with this site

where are my edits?

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