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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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Electrosensitivity - Can Earth-Sheltered and/or Earthen-Walled Structures Help Us?

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

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JP and The Eternal Now (BEL)

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From the Spring Foraging Cookbook: Indian Cucumber

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Cottonwood Poplar Roots ....

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BREAKING WORLD NEWS! VERY IMPORTANT!

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Permi uses for spent grain.

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Double bell rocket mass heater to heat a yurt

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American persimmon and other fruit trees from Chestnut Hill Nursery?

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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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Goji berry

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what can I do with persimmons?

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bugs

Where did all the tomato horn worms go?

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Uses for Tomato Skins/Seeds from Food Processing?

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The importance of doing something

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permaculture bootcamp - gardening gardeners; grow the food you eat and build your own home

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Squash - need help identifying

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Propaganda by the Seed

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chair repaired!

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Permie Textile/Sewing Project Brag Thread

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