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PEPPERS in action

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A lot about apples!

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

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The aging homesteader

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Northern Lights alert

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The simple pleasures of the day (please add your own)

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Someone lent me a guitar - how do I learn classical guitar

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2026 - arting - quick art share

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Best (foodsafe) paper mache paste recipe? And other advice.

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Are hobbies dead?

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Growing Apple Trees From Seed Naturally

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this forum is for gardeners, homesteaders and permaculture people

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Cigar box guitar and variations

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

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Oil paint as wood stain?

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victory gardens, 2026 version: what are your plans?

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Expedient insulation

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Automatic Backyard Food Pump

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All of the video from the Eat Your Dirt Summit - more than 42 hours!

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plants

help me ID two, maybe four types of comfrey?

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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urban gardening

Slugs, snails and other pests in an urban garden

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plants

Whatsit?

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ducks and geese

How to maintain a duck pond and what to plant?

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chickens

Do you actually need a chicken coop?

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cover crops

Cover cropping with Medicago Arabica or Speckled Medock

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ethics and philosophy

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

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grains and pseudograins

Geoff Lawton says grain is not really worth the while - what are your thoughts?

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sculpture

Help me make a mobile

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cooking

Coffee replacement/stretcher

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trees

Drawing the line -what trees do you save?

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Gick remediation possiblity

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flow form molds

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Best cookware for perpetual stews?

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permaculture singles

31 Female looking for Male

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Three Sisters Year 4

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SOLD Homestead for sale Texas

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SOLD property in DFW

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trees

Temperate tree seeds that produce mucilage?

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PEP BB medicine.sand.dryblackberry - Dry blackberry leaf or root bark for a tea/infusion/decoction

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Permaculture Homestead in need of helping hands in exchange for a place to live - Northern WI

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Advice for building a cob structure for first time builder

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wood burning stoves

Masonry Heater

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Wisteria is invading

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chickens

How often do you add new hens to the flock?

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I want to show off my knitting

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yeast water in the garden

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PEP Natural Medicine - Sand Badge

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37M - Any other PNW queer millennial aspiring-homesteaders out there?

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Make a chamomile syrup or gummies - PEP BB medicine.sand.syrup.chamomile

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house plants

Growing coffee at home

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Chef & Aspiring Homesteader Looking to Partner Up / Connect with an Independent Woman

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urban gardening

Plot 5: a new urban Community garden

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Concho, Arizona Homesteading

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June promotions!

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music

Music of the Moment

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wood burning stoves

Third day of wet cool temps

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pollinators

Monarch caterpillars are here! (and other activity on the milkweeds)

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