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jokes

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Game - Picture Association

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You know you're a permie when...

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recycling

What is it.... the game! Post unknown objects to ID... and to stump others!

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Hilarious, rib tickling memes

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wheaton laboratories

SEPP to Boot: Stephen's Experience (BEL)

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Magdalene’s Bootcamp Experience

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music

Music of the Moment

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fruit trees

A lot about apples!

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Quote of the day

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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 aging homesteader

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watercolour questions so beginner, I'm almost afraid to ask

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

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hugelkultur

Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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Talk me out of (or into) a ukulele

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wheaton laboratories

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

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Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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my thoughts are sometimes better expressed by others.....

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a college degree in 2025/2026/2027 ... don't

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propagation

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

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meaningless drivel

Are hobbies dead?

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tinkering with this site

Americans, please don't use 2 letter abbreviations for your state!

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art

Permaculture-core: what is the permaculture aesthetic?

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art

2026 - arting - quick art share

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wheaton laboratories

Seth's Lazer-Focused, Long-Winded, Lively List of Lab Lessons (BEL)

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

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wofati and earth berm

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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this forum is for gardeners, homesteaders and permaculture people

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'French box easel' - can it really work for painting out and about?

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

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rocket mass heaters

Are you interested in building a rocket mass heater? What is holding you back?

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What do you do for work?

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goats and sheep

favorite sheep breeds

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flowers

Permies Poll: How many rose bushes do you have?

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textile techniques

Feathers as duvet filling -How?

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cooking

Permies Poll: Do you wash your rice?

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fruit trees

New to forum, not to permie-ness; need tree help.

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trees

The Return of the American Chestnut

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homestead

Almost reached record lows Tomorrow will be colder

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Is anything in nature random?

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rocket mass heaters

Are you interested in building a rocket mass heater? What is holding you back?

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straw bale house

Quick and easyish Strawbale building

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PEP BB nest.sand.kitchen - Clean a Kitchen

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natural building

Roof Rennovation for my 100 years old Village Home In Gujarat, India

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permaculture singles

50 Man Homesteading in Panama. ISO Wife/Mother of our children

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intentional community

Opening for Shepardess

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toilet alternatives

Experimenting with the willow feeder idea...

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Snow is magic!!

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uk and ireland

Growing undercover (mainly) in Shetland

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solar

Keeping snow off solar panels

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seeds and breeding

Want to Buy - Wild lettuce Lactuca Virosa, Astragalus, or Devil's Claw Proboscidea parviflora Seeds

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fruit trees

Improving orchard soil

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projects

Energy optimized secure healthy permanent computing?

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rocket mass heaters

Walker Stoves Superhot J 8 Inch build experience

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rocket mass heaters

8"J-tube with Bell to heat living room and kitchen

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ecovillage

"resilience is a practice" - A vision from the Resilient Communities Network

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music

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textile techniques

Inspiration from Nature: Stripes

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permaculture singles

Aspiring Homesteading Southern Belle in the Southwest

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You know you're a permie when...

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grains and pseudograins

Will rice go bad if not harvested on time?

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paul wheaton's permaculture podcasts

Podcast 729 - How to Heat Your Home with Green or Wet Wood - Part 1

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gear

What is the best way to sharpen a knife?

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My version of Elizabeth Cotten's "Freight Train"

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intentional community

"Permaculture Research Institute"

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paul wheaton's pseudo blog

I will attempt to heat my home all winter with just cardboard and garbage

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resources: seeds, plants, honey, consulting, etc.

BORNEO fruit seeds for sale: Musa Ingens, Pometia, Artocarpus, Willughbeia etc.

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intentional community

Man, 34, has homestead but is seeking permaculture community

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alternative energy

Infographic to consider the best heat - all costs

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wood burning stoves

Masonary heaters

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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paul wheaton's pseudo blog

recipes to cut your own carbon footprint

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rocket mass heaters

solving the biggest carbon problem in a cold climate - webinar with Alan Booker

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forest garden

Starting my Food Forest in Zone 8 (East Alabama)

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gardening for beginners

LOST all my seeds

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wood burning stoves

Inefficient, polluting wood stoves impact article, with TLUD/rocket mass heater teaching opportunity

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frugality

Expedient insulation

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