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Game - Picture Association

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You know you're a permie when...

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

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

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wheaton laboratories

Caleb's Bootcamp Experience (BRK)

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permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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meaningless drivel

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

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

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rocket mass heaters

Matt Walker tiny cookstove build in Portugal

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Help me fall in love with Oil Pastels

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Unapparent disability

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art

Making Valazquez medium for solvent-free oil painting

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the best thing for me in fighting cancer: community

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gamcod

freaky cheap gardening movie project - 200 square feet on YOUR property

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

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meaningless drivel

Why does the barn have no walls?

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Before and after pictures contest

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I'm finally getting a greenhouse

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3 Sisters Garden, 2024, Year 2

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wheaton laboratories

Chris' Bootcamp Experience Log

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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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where can I get the grafting drill bit that makes a hole the same shape and size as a pencil?

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

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rocket mass heaters

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

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meaningless drivel

Hobby, crafting, or art no-buy anyone? (perennial self-accountability thread)

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gamcod

Getting ready for GAMCOD-(ish) in Portugal

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I have apples. I have pie. But I can't post in cider press?

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introductions

Introduction

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rocket mass heaters

Matt Walker tiny cookstove build in Portugal

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How to soundproof a wall against the neighbors?

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Do you bake bread as often as you would like? What are your biggest breadmaking roadblocks?

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wheaton laboratories

Should Wheaton Labs host an Advanced PDC with Alan Booker in 2025?

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wood burning stoves

1st time poster with wood stove question

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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gear

Battery Tender from Florida, USA

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cooking

Olive Oil Cost Spike -- Best Alternatives?

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

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meaningless drivel

Childhood misconceptions

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root crops

Vidalia onions

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pep food prep

Bake a pizza - PEP BB food.sand.pizza

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How are you all doing from under a blanket of snow?

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wofati and earth berm

Post Frame Gabion Wall Berm House Build

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Cold weather in the US south

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food preservation

I Pressure canned with water level over the lid, is the food okay?

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chickens

Keeping chickens home

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pep natural medicine

Make an aloe leaf poultice - PEP BB medicine.sand.poultice.aloe

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Winter advice for people new to winter

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pep food prep

Make two loaves of bread - PEP BB food.sand.bread

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"It's all good" and other sayings that don't make sense

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solar

Anyone care to share their passive solar air heater data???? No fan, convection only please!

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earthen floor

Az Superadobe Hyperadobe county codes

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digital market

Heat Starter Pack

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Canada is a sovereign nation, Mr. Trump

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Any Louisiana permies in here? Southwest La?

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politics

electric cars, hybrids and politics?

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paul wheaton's permaculture podcasts

Podcast 693 - Bits and Bobs with Alexandra - Part 2

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digital market

3D Plans - Solar Food Dehydrator with Rocket Boost - 50% off for the next 48 hours!

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wofati and earth berm

Hobbit Home Progress.

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personal care

Permies Poll: Do you prefer baths or showers?

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ulcer factory

World’s largest 'carbon removal plant' in Pine Bluff, Arkansas

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seeds and breeding

dehybridizing hybrids - I invite you to join me

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introductions

Hello and happy to be here!

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roundwood and timber framing

Making a Three Log Bench

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intentional community

Offering a rent-free off-grid spot in SW Colorado

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intentional community

Looking for an intentional community, farm cooperative or homesteaders in the Santa Fe, NM area.

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intentional community

Desert Southwest opportunity for the right person(s)

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natural building

Reciprocal Roof insulation in cold climate

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natural building

Compressed earth block - Multiple questions

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fruit trees

Fruit tree planting advice

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questions about running DX5 ads on permies

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