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Talk me out of (or into) a ukulele

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A lot about apples!

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Quote of the day

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The aging homesteader

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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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PEPPERS in action

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In the quiet hours of the bootcamp grind, I found myself: Esteban's Bootcamp Experience

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Someone lent me a guitar - how do I learn classical guitar

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2026 - arting - quick art share

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

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Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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Are hobbies dead?

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Are you interested in building a rocket mass heater? What is holding you back?

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Growing Apple Trees From Seed Naturally

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Seth's Lazer-Focused, Long-Winded, Lively List of Lab Lessons (BEL)

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

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art

Oil paint as wood stain?

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How do I learn to read music?

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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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Cigar box guitar and variations

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How do you store your left overs?

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decor

New Improved Rock Garden

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frugality

a tiny little decorative box made from an aluminum can

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upcycling

uses for soup cans

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personal care

Curly girl hair care method

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toilet alternatives

Help Me Design the "Taj Mahal" of Outhouses

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Alice and Patricia’s Permaculture Homestead

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46 M, seeking F for lifelong/partner/wife to homestead

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Garden on Corliss Homestead Journal

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My city farm

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medicinal herbs

What medicinal herbs do you recommend beginners start with?

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12V Portable LiFePO4 unheated battery recommendations?

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sculpture

How do you cut out eyeholes in a papier-mâché mask?

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wheaton laboratories

Seth's Lazer-Focused, Long-Winded, Lively List of Lab Lessons (BEL)

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alternative energy

Building 100 AH LiFePo4 Battery Box

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The Magic of Kimchi

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Cherry wood - what to do with it?

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intentional community

Clallam Bay Community (WA) — Seeking Experienced Growers

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gear

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Hobbit Home Progress.

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cob

Sensationalist rage bait about cob houses

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wheaton laboratories

Ash's times at Wheaton Labs

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Free Seed Saving 101 Webinar on April 18th

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The Tree field Skye

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share photos of old, abandoned, uninhabited structures in your part of the world!

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Mini wood-burning cookstove for a tiny house

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5 steps to plan your new garden before you start building it

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Larger Greenhouse

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Earth floor sealer... Cow urine, banana tree sap, oxblood? Alternatives to oil/solvent seal.

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Free Heat Combo - Free Heat + Freaky Cheap Heat + 7 - 3D Plans + RMH Risers eBook + Heat Greenhouses

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Bar Soap vs Liquid Soap

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3 acre Property in Billings

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PleinAirpril - April art challenge

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south america / central america / mexico

Looking for individual or couple - Caretakers on organic farm in southern Ecuador

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seeds and breeding

Squirrels ate my fava bean, and snow pea, seeds right away

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Northern Lights alert

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sewing

PDF sewing patterns, do you use them?

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root crops

Where to buy Red Dutch Dwarf Jerusalem Artichoke?

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sculpture

Homeschooling and Art

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food preservation

Homestead Nutrition

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Someone lent me a guitar - how do I learn classical guitar

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rocket mass heaters

Shorty Core + Oven Single Skin Bell Build

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