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A lot about apples!

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Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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The aging homesteader

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Northern Lights alert

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PEPPERS in action

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

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BB clarification thread

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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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Best (foodsafe) paper mache paste recipe? And other advice.

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paul wheaton's pseudo blog

what if the cost of food goes up 10x?

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How do I learn to read music?

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Cigar box guitar and variations

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What to make with just Flour and Water?

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Oil paint as wood stain?

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Victory gardens, 2026 version: what are your plans?

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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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Winnerwell Foldfast Oven question

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Jessee's Bootcamp Experience for today

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bread

* Welcome Kate Downham, author of Sourdough Without Fail.

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Getting comfrey to thrive

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intentional community

Live off Grid with me in Western North Carolina!

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root crops

burdock, arctium lappa, when during it's second year does it go to seed?

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wild harvesting

Perilla frutescens...shiso...for food and medicine? recipes?

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beans

Best ways to get runner bean tubers to overwinter and regrow quickly?

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dynamic accumulators

Putting "bad" "weeds" to good use

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frugality

Frugal or just being smug...have you scored a real deal recently?

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fermentation

Yoghurt without fail - share your tips for making thick tasty yoghurt here

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Polymaths of Permies Unite!!

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homestead

Stories from the wild side.

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cutting ditches to move water around a ranch ("stock pond" refills) on a mega-site

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music

Music of the Moment

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Left hand turns

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Medieval ways to paint baked clay

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ethics and philosophy

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

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Jessee's Bootcamp Experience for today

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wood burning stoves

Walker tiny wood cookstove build

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105-acre lakefront Ometepe, Nicaragua – ideal ecovillage / intentional community site, $550k FSBO

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grand grain roadtrip

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homestead

Easy to do kitchen/home modifications that make your life way easier

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survival

Emergency rations

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earthworks

Natural Timber Log Erosion Barriers

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teachers' lounge

well-produced permaculture educational videos for city/government officials?

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personal care

Anyone else notice their eyesight significantly improve?

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Daylight Savings Time - for Real?

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plants

Embracing the Chaos of Self-Seeding Vegetables

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perennial vegetables

The great big thread of sunchoke info - growing, storing, eating/recipes, science facts

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urban gardening

I've been keeping a spreadsheet for my harvests... anyone else?

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mulch

Let's talk about mulch and mulching

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27M, Cleveland, Ohio

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Land share/rental/work-trade Near Tucson, Arizona

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Hobbit Home Progress.

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landrace tobacco planting

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productive downtime

Motivating tips & ideas for organizing the shop

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2026 Online Fall Seed And Plant Swap and needing help to begin on this page.

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rocket mass heaters

Matt Walker tiny cookstove build in Portugal

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jokes

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soil

Tilling mostly oak leaves with aged horse manure

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ducks and geese

Making and filtering pond for 8 ducks

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gardening for beginners

Why Are My Eggplant Flowers Falling Off?

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chickens at basecamp

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rock jack

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fencing

junkpole fence: freaky cheap chicken/deer fence made from wood typically thrown away

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permaculture singles

Has anyone else thought about how gardening might be the best dating filter that nobody's using?

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