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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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The aging homesteader

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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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Are hobbies dead?

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

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

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

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Making my own watercolors with natural pigments (both homemade and storebought)

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'French box easel' - can it really work for painting out and about?

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

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

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Kentucky land steward here, hello :) 42 straight male 5'10 180 lb.

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Lightweight, solo building

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wood burning stoves

Add stratification chamber to conventional wood stove

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A compromise for property tax?

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Permaculture homestead for sale in central France

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the first wofati greenhouse design

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Devious Experiments with a Truly Passive Greenhouse - full movie

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food preservation

my first go at making pemmican

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plants

Great big thread of Harvest photos!

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Non-electric-permaculture homestead seeking apprentices

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