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Game - Picture Association

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You know you're a permie when...

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SEPP to Boot: Stephen's Experience (BEL)

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funny signs

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Music of the Moment

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A lot about apples!

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pep

PEPPERS in action

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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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hugelkultur

Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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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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art

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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the best thing for me in fighting cancer: community

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art

Making Valazquez medium for solvent-free oil painting

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gamcod

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

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bugs

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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meaningless drivel

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

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We need your help - Permies server fundraiser

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bugs

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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gamcod

Getting ready for GAMCOD-(ish) in Portugal

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Good Start to the Snow Harvest this Winter

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personal challenges

A Year of Loss - Learning to Grieve When You Were Never Taught How

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Human… hibernation?

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Cool Tools, lesser known tools that can improve your life

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writing

The Last Shepherd

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TRAINS! do you travel on them?

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home care

Citric Acid - Uses?

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Hi, From Rural Bulgaria!

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How to monitor your badge bits

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Building bench with heat transfer from adjacent stove

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Buying land

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kids

Creating a low-waste household with kids

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soil

Is this a good plan for my super-clay soil...?

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Has anyone built a rocket-mass-kiln?

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Lexus at turtle speed

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pep tool care

PEP BB tool.straw.removerust - Remove Rust, Clean, and Oil a Hand Tool

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intentional community

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

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rocket stoves

Nozzley Rockety

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Winter gardening, AKA winter harvesting

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permaculture design

Does Everyone Really Map and Chart and Graph?

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food preservation

Looking for 5 gallon non plastic containers that seal airtight

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Gratitude - my #1 fuel when Life doesn't have the sparks

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pep natural medicine

Make rosehip syrup or gummies - PEP BB medicine.sand.syrup.rosehip

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Random cool maps

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hugelkultur

Build New Hugelkultur Bed in Winter?

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cooking

Can we make sugar from skirret root?

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Change a letter game

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rainwater catchment

IBC Tote Project

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pep natural medicine

Create an infusion of lemon balm leaf - PEP BB medicine.sand.lemonbalminfusion

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pep natural medicine

Create an infusion of horsetail - PEP BB medicine.sand.horsetailinfusion

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cob

I built a Cinva-Ram CEB press, and I made it easier for you to build one too!

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natural building

Siding opinions

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pep natural medicine

Make a ginger root tincture - PEP BB medicine.sand.tincture.ginger

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pep textiles

Harvest fabric from old clothes for new projects - PEP BB textile.straw.fabric

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workshops

Montana Natural Building Workshops 2025!!!

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conservation

It is 2024 and incandescent is still better than LED

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pigs

Livestock guardian pig

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pep foraging

Cup of tea - PEP BB foraging.sand.tea

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tinkering with this site

contact us, contact paul, contact staff ....

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permaculture singles

New homestead In middle TN

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tinkering with this site

Bought two of Raven's .pdf's on cleaners but system says "duplicate" and I cannot access either

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Quote of the day

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