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What is it.... the game! Post unknown objects to ID... and to stump others!

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The aging homesteader

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Smaugust 2025 art challenge (there are dragons)

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Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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

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Are hobbies dead?

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What's for Dinner?

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Permaculture-core: what is the permaculture aesthetic?

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

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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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'French box easel' - can it really work for painting out and about?

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corn cob insulation

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Hugelkultur, termites, and fruit trees.

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Herbal Medicine 101: Tarragon

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Alternative fuel source, a lot of old paper, what to do??

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Passive Solar GreenHouse Design Input Needed

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Seeking Christian Man

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Cooperative Community forming in the Mountains of Western NC

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Botanical Interests from Colorado, USA

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Southwest NB, Canada

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Be Nice

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46 M, seeking F for lifelong/partner/wife to homestead

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Avocados and Frost in Europe (plus info on the cold-hardiest avocados and how to grow them)

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wild harvesting

From the Spring Foraging Cookbook: Morel Mushrooms

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