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Northern Lights alert

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

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Talk me out of (or into) a ukulele

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Growing Apple Trees From Seed Naturally

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what if the cost of food goes up 10x?

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a college degree in 2025/2026/2027 ... don't

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2026 - arting - quick art share

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Knee replacement in three weeks and one day

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Cigar box guitar and variations

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Oil paint as wood stain?

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art

Making tiny worlds - what is this art called

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Victory gardens, 2026 version: what are your plans?

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frugality

Expedient insulation

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Geoff Lawton says grain is not really worth the while - what are your thoughts?

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How to make fancy, medieval book covers with kids?

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The Land, the Book, the Family: Building LFA-42 in the San Luis Valley

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wells and springs

Solar well pump recommendations for 325ft deep well in PNW

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The aging homesteader

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Firing crappy workers

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Could a game help test Earthship ideas before we build them?

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Planet A - Permaculture Video

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Which YouTube channels do you like?

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writing and drawing with a dip pen

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Retort adjacent biochar

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biochar

making biochar: methods pros and cons

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biochar

Curbing greenhouse gases with biochar

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chickens at basecamp

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Flower Bulbs: What are your favorite?

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What to do about mild overnight freeze

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Is using used tires dangerous for health / nature?

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Fish on Fridays: Fisherman’s Soup

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Raw land, a toolbox, and a very small budget. What’s your first-year order of operations?

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Fishing

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Community in central portugal

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Looking for long-term relationship/potential soulmate

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Do you keep your ketchup and mustard in the fridge or pantry?

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Plot 5: a new urban Community garden

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

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Solar sand/thermal mass battery in combination with RMH

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You get to go forward or backwards in time....where and when?

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Feedback wanted: small Excel seed-inventory prototype

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Free soil and mulch quantity calculator for planning garden beds

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