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

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Caleb's Bootcamp Experience (BRK)

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Smaugust 2025 art challenge (there are dragons)

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art

Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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Unapparent disability

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Are hobbies dead?

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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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Glazing and underpainting - for the frugal oil painter (grisaille, brunaille, verdaille, etc)

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The Glorious Revolution - 25th of May - Pratchett and discworld

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Catherine The Grateful - not permaculture farm, lessons from the field (BEL)

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Carrying things on your head

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JP and The Eternal Now (BEL)

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Need to slow water on slope, but also need to be able to use riding mower. Got any creative ideas?

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organic

Permi uses for spent grain.

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cooking

Uses for Tomato Skins/Seeds from Food Processing?

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Did Medieval fabric last longer?

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bugs

Where did all the tomato horn worms go?

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cooking

what can I do with persimmons?

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biochar

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food preservation

traditional way to make tomato paste

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Automatic Backyard Food Pump

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seeds and breeding

Reed's Landrace Sweet Potatoes

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grains and pseudograins

Some Corny Questions

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food choices

Anyone eat a very simple diet?

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decor

DIY incense

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biochar

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rocket mass heaters

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art

Kama pigments. Canadian made oil paint (review)

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Gamblin 1980 student grade oil colours made in USA (review)

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grains and pseudograins

Mostly pseudograins questions.

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biochar

Charcoal Garden Paths

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pep natural medicine

PEP Natural Medicine - Sand Badge

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personal challenges

Where to find f/t rv acreage in CO/OR/WA?

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homestead

ACCURATE fire prevention advice please!

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clothing

Socks Socks Socks!! Is there such a thing as Permies socks?

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pep animal care

Make One Bale of Straw - PEP BB animal.sand.strawbale

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