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2 questions about the content (or lack thereof), of badge bits for larger-scale solar, like larger than the small DC solar system, but not mobile like the solar leviathan?

Where could I find normal carpentry tasks, like framing or hanging a door, or installing a window? Framing a wall? Building (framing) a house?

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As for Q1, I don't know of any BBs for larger solar systems. I think that would fall into Oddball.

For Q2 there is a lot of traditional carpentry in the PEM system, but not in PEP that I'm aware of.  Permaculture Experience according to Mike
 
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About what counts as foraging...https://permies.com/wiki/108155/pep-foraging/PEP-Badge-Foraging#884552 says:

Apples from a neighbor don’t count here.   Apples from a homestead that has been abandoned for at least five years do count.  Apples oddly growing in a place where there has never been any cultivation counts too (probably a discarded apple core led to the tree).   Apples that are the result of forage gardening count too.


I'm considering the case where the county plants apple trees in parks so that anyone who wants them can come pick apples but they aren't given a lot of attention (like windfalls are left on the ground to rot). I think that counts as "apples that are the result of forage gardening" but none of these terms have hard definitions (maybe intentionally).

Anyway, I'm wondering if that scenario counts as foraging for purposes of PEP. I want to avoid the appearance of pulling a fast one, but if it does count, it would be a relatively easy source for me.
 
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I think that since it's generally considered a tended space (the park), that would seem too much like a cultivated tree to be easy to approve
 
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