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Game - Picture Association

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You know you're a permie when...

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

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Hilarious, rib tickling memes

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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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Quote of the day

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permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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pep

PEPPERS in action

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The simple pleasures of the day (please add your own)

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

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Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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Caleb's Bootcamp Experience (BRK)

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The aging homesteader

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Smaugust 2025 art challenge (there are dragons)

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Unapparent disability

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Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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art

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

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propagation

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

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ethics and philosophy

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

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Are hobbies dead?

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art

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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Carrying things on your head

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wofati and earth berm

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

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JP and The Eternal Now (BEL)

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What's for Dinner?

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Preserve 1 million calories at the Harmon house

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

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crowdfunding

Permaculture Playing Cards - the purple deck

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food preservation

Flour/Flint Corn grinding experience

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first frost came early -- can I still save seeds?

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beauty is in the eye of the beholder

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music

Permaculture Music

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crowdfunding

The Gardening Playing Cards Purple Deck Kickstarter kickback program

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rocket mass heaters

Long time lurker, first time poster in need of assistance: Dome House

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wood burning stoves

Chimney cleaning

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plums

Plums: An underrated fruit?

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perennial vegetables

Tuberous Jerusalem sage

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wood burning stoves

Tlud analog? Easy to make " reactive" furnace \ stove

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Responsible use of Morgan superwool (rockwool)

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seeds and breeding

Free Sunflower Seeds - Will you help my son increase genetics?

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grains and pseudograins

Corn Variety: Bloody Butcher

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conservation

making the best of electric heat

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Random cool maps

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videos

Maple Syrup for Beginners by Mike Haasl

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paul wheaton's pseudo blog

Automatic Backyard Food Pump

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chickens

Soybeans are cheap, why isn't chicken feed?

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biochar

Podcast with Kelpie Wilson about biochar

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Apple Poll!! Where do you keep baby birds?

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rocket mass heaters

can you turn a kiva fireplace into a rocket mass heater?

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chickens

Calling poultry lovers

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honey bees

African bees don't like their hive

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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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perennial vegetables

Perennial Vegetables for a Fall Planting

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Classroom/Bushcraft engineering. We should have a badge for this! (Mostly joking)

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wheaton laboratories

All about SKIP, PEP, Badges, BBs and More!

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trees

Getting rid of unwanted tree seedlings and sprouts?

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personal challenges

experiences with melatonin for sleep?

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berries

American Beautyberry

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toilet alternatives

Fifteen Years of Humanure

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ethics and philosophy

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

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homestead

Temporary living strategies while building

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gardening for beginners

Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

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vines

How did medieval peasants do it?

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california

Any friendly Counties?

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rocket ovens

"PANIS NOSTER" bread oven/smoker with BBR firebox

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composting

Food recycler, compost newb

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forest garden

Why are we mowing?

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southwest usa

Northern Californians here?

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gardening for beginners

2025 - What are your gardening failures so far this year?

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