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A lot about apples!

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Talk me out of (or into) a ukulele

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

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Someone lent me a guitar - how do I learn classical guitar

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2026 - arting - quick art share

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

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Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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Are hobbies dead?

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Growing Apple Trees From Seed Naturally

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Permaculture-core: what is the permaculture aesthetic?

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Alexandra Malecki made it to PEP2! Follow my family SKIP to homestead!

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

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

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

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

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Check in - are you okay?

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Preserve 1 Million Calories - food.wood.calories PEP BB

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Home made laundry detergent

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what to do with tree bark

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How to use dry sunflower stalks in my soil?

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Baby talk that's been promoted to real talk?

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Best Temporary Garden Setup

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Question about load bearing capacity of structure

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Cob That A Bank Will Finance

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54 widowed male seeking long-term serious relationship

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Natural glue for finer woodworking & lutherie

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Back the BEL, Ring the BEL (Bootcamp Experience Log)

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Are my words for a Willow Feeder instructions page good enough?

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Last time you flew commercial

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Adding a separate MPPT to an inverter system

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Permaculture rocks - no, I mean actual rocks

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Looking for my soulmate

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Windbreaks: Trees Vs. Berms

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Ways to cool a house without electricity

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Uses for old metal filing cabinets

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Conjoined apples

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Could use some advice on pole chainsaw use. (limbs pinching the chainsaw bar.)

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tin pot dictator

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Rocket water heater

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Wind Blocks and Bird Deterrent

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Building a greenhouse out of pallet-wrap-and-stick panels

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greenhouses

using cooling tubes to for a green house in Texas. 2 ft down.

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biochar

Anyone making biochar from seaweed?

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Daylight Saving Time

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SWM Looking for SWF to potentially join me here on my new homestead!

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chickens

Did your coop design change after you got chickens?

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cooking

what's for dinner?

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wiki

Free garden calculators for wiki

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trees

Tree Pruning in India: When's the best time?

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spoon theory

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Single best book that helped you with gardening?

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