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Game - Picture Association

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Dez's Bootcamp Experience (BRK)

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Magdalene’s Bootcamp Experience

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seeds and breeding

Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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funny signs

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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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PEPPERS in action

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

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permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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not another yarn blog (spinning, weaving, and natural dyeing)

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hugelkultur

Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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wheaton laboratories

Caleb's Bootcamp Experience (BRK)

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

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homestead

The aging homesteader

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rocket mass heaters

Matt Walker tiny cookstove build in Portugal

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Ugly duckling (goslings) - cheer me on?

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Unapparent disability

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art

Making Valazquez medium for solvent-free oil painting

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Why does the barn have no walls?

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Who are my new neighbours? (apparently now yellow jackets afterall)

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Before and after pictures contest

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3 Sisters Garden, 2024, Year 2

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Willow Feeder movie

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wheaton laboratories

Chris' Bootcamp Experience Log

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Matt Walker continental stove build

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Carrying things on your head

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Is there a food I can eat to make bugs love me less

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Random cool maps

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HELP! My milkpaint on concrete is cracking and chipping off!

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The big hole in RMH information resources - and a suggested fix

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Recycling in the 18th Century

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Anyone have experience or opinions about "EZ Log" type buildings?

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earthen floor outdoor

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Wild burros are destroying my property!

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Tips/Tricks for transplanting trees and bushes

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rocket mass heaters

season extender rocket mass heater - for inside of a greenhouse or .... outside

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Small Scale CHP Steam Engine System

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Sea Buckthorn (Sea berries) A Super food

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Inherited Hugel - need Advice

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65 Low Tech Things - tour movie - HD streaming

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Transplanting established blueberries bushes

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getting set up

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What's the best spice?

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Cold Stratification for the Total Novice

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propagation

Do you use paper pots?

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gear

What is the best way to sharpen a knife?

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intentional community

Eastern TN vegan ecovillage sanctuary

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grey water

Permies Poll: Do you utilize Grey Water on your homestead?

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seeds and breeding

Seed storage desiccants

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You know you're a permie when...

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breeding black soldier flies - Anything else I can do - or give up?

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homestead

Riona's micro-homesteading thread

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gear

propane on demand hot water heaters (no electricity)

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cooking

Kala Namak

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Favorite Childhood Garden Memories

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natural building

Simplified log cabin build idea

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jobs wanted

Looking for seasonal or full time job

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Raising Great Pyrenees on a Raw Diet- Raising Rabbits for Meat

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gear

Any experience with small-ish drum mowers for haying?

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trees

Szechuan pepper tree ( Zanthoxylum)

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flea market

[Free/Trade] High Sugar Honey Locust Seeds USA

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wheaton laboratories

SEPP to Boot: Stephen's Experience (BEL)

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chickens

My chicken brooder

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What new plant will you try in 2025?

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DYI stone fountain plans?

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paul wheaton

12 decks of permaculture playing cards

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Hello from Aberdeenshire

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Pitfire pottery retreat?

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jokes

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biochar

Potting soil involving biochar

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Corrupted ebook (turns out he was using the wrong reader)

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