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Hilarious, rib tickling memes

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A lot about apples!

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

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Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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Caleb's Bootcamp Experience (BRK)

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The aging homesteader

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Smaugust 2025 art challenge (there are dragons)

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personal care

Unapparent disability

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art

Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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art

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

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

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Are hobbies dead?

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art

Permaculture-core: what is the permaculture aesthetic?

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art

Glazing and underpainting - for the frugal oil painter (grisaille, brunaille, verdaille, etc)

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

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Mistborn score - any good?

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

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Carrying things on your head

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Electrosensitivity - Can Earth-Sheltered and/or Earthen-Walled Structures Help Us?

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Catherine The Grateful - not permaculture farm, lessons from the field (BEL)

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art

Making my own watercolors with natural pigments (both homemade and storebought)

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

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JP and The Eternal Now (BEL)

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What do you do for work?

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How can I put a shade on this lamp?

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Permaculture Playing Cards - the purple deck

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Automatic Backyard Food Pump

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Anyone know of a good home veterinary book?

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mulch

Permies Poll: Do you mulch your garden before winter?

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gear

I bought my own Guillotine and still have all my fingers!

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straw bale house

Timber portal frame building wrapped with straw bales

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NY Upstate - Hudson Valley/Catskills - Skills Pool/Tradeshare

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appalachia

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vines

How did medieval peasants do it?

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dogs and cats

Itchy Dogs - Treatment Ideas

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SEPP to Boot: Stephen's Experience (BEL)

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intentional community

montana community seeking 20 people who are gardeners or want to be gardeners

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pigs

Permies Poll: Do you raise your own hogs?

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All about SKIP, PEP, Badges, BBs and More!

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rural

Loneliness of country living

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Received a suspicious, inappropriate or abusive PM?

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Crazy kitchen mistakes - what are yours?

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oklahoma and texas

Jarrell, TX Food Forest project

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fruit trees

Swales and Fruit Trees

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chickens

Parasite treatments

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wood burning stoves

Tlud analog? Easy to make " reactive" furnace \ stove

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bugs

Green caterpillar with horn on his arse.

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The Magic of Kimchi

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cooking

What do you use instead of store bought cooking spray?

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What's for Dinner?

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Tiny cabin rocket mass heater photo dump

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Classroom/Bushcraft engineering. We should have a badge for this! (Mostly joking)

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natural building

Ideas for a natural building materials for a first floor floor, and roof

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gardening for beginners

Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

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straw bale house

Wanted: No spray hay/straw bales (w MT)

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grains and pseudograins

How to Grind Dent Corn into Grits

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cooking

5 meals in 1 chicken

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gardening for beginners

Hello Everyone! A Gardening Beginner Here

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intentional community

Permaculture Internship at Jubilee Partners

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wild harvesting

From the Spring Foraging Cookbook: Kudzu

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intentional community

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

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rocket mass heaters

Cleaning a rocket mass heater?

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homestead

Temporary living strategies while building

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New Build First Generation Batchbox 6" Double Brick Bell

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No Clothes Dryer, No problem?

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Discovery of a Plant That Attracts Ants and Protects Legumes from Beetle Attacks

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berries

Raspberries -vs- grass

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wood burning stoves

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