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

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art

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

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JP and The Eternal Now (BEL)

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How can I put a shade on this lamp?

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Stove for a bomb shelter

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Permaculture Music

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Easiest and Hardest Seeds to Save

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trees

Date Palms in the Sacramento Valley

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straw bale house

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financial strategy

Thoughts On Bartering

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Make and install public art - PEM BB community.straw.art

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What water systems are on your homesteads?

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toilet alternatives

Separett Villa toilet urine line clogged

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pep foraging

Guerilla plant 500 woody perennial food seeds or cuttings - foraging.straw.guerrilla PEP BB

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