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

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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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What's for Dinner?

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

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12 steps to sewing

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Homestead Pigs Course

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soil

Soil CEC (Cation Exchange Capacity)

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My version of Elizabeth Cotten's "Freight Train"

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Cob and brick oven with rocket technology

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'Boring' Daily Rituals

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ethics and philosophy

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Goat Herd Partner – Under the Hoof Farm (NW Florida)

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Russian Fruit Trenches

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Compact Tractor - backhoe or no?

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New Here - Who's out there?

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Shorty sidewinder, 200 mm (approx. 8") system, lots of mass

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ecovillage

Quarter Moon Pinehowl Campstead Blog

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