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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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Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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Unapparent disability

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Random cool maps

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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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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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art

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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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perennial vegetables

Fall care for perennial kales in 6b?

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chickens

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A Salad Bar for Chickens (That Actually Works)

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sewing

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Permi uses for spent grain.

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grains and pseudograins

Video on harvesting, threshing, winnowing and grinding wheat

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rocket mass heaters

Double bell rocket mass heater to heat a yurt

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biochar

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wood burning stoves

Permies Poll: How many cords of wood do you burn a year?

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fruit trees

American persimmon and other fruit trees from Chestnut Hill Nursery?

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food choices

Anyone eat a very simple diet?

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40M Looking for younger vegan/veg woman to set up farm with and send money to. Conditions apply.

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44/m

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Leaf Mulch

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