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jokes

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Game - Picture Association

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You know you're a permie when...

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Hilarious, rib tickling memes

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wheaton laboratories

SEPP to Boot: Stephen's Experience (BEL)

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funny signs

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Music of the Moment

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fruit trees

A lot about apples!

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permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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Quote of the day

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pep

PEPPERS in action

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The simple pleasures of the day (please add your own)

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homestead

The aging homesteader

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watercolour questions so beginner, I'm almost afraid to ask

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

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hugelkultur

Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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Smaugust 2025 art challenge (there are dragons)

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wheaton laboratories

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

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art

Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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paul wheaton's pseudo blog

a college degree in 2025/2026/2027 ... don't

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ethics and philosophy

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

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propagation

garden plans, records, results, hopes.....

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music

Talk me out of (or into) a ukulele

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Are hobbies dead?

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tinkering with this site

Americans, please don't use 2 letter abbreviations for your state!

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art

Permaculture-core: what is the permaculture aesthetic?

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art

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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2026 - arting - quick art share

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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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art

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

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

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this forum is for gardeners, homesteaders and permaculture people

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art

'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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I want to build a tall wood cabin, but I need a "foundations for smarter dummies."

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gear

Compost Tea Lab aerators? other recommendations?

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pep foraging

Eat 90% Foraged Food for 10 Days - foraging.wood.tendays PEP BB

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ergonomics

What do you wish your home had, and what do you love in your home?

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A new Polytunnel - oh my!

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food as medicine

medicinal value of fresh peppercorns vs dried?

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Tomatoes - Stake or let them do their thing?

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23 ac farm in West TN, stocked lake, house, shop, outbuildings, well

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Make 36 feet of swale - PEM BB earthworks.sand.swale

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Make a Small Compound Mallet - PEA BB roundwood.sand.mallet

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Raised beds

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

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art

2026 - arting - quick art share

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house plants

Houseplants for People who can't grow houseplants!

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transportation

Good Permie Cars...

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rocket mass heaters

Batchrocket icw barrel and bench (as a bell)

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cooking

Permies Poll: Do you wash your rice?

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skills to inherit property

Metalworking Question for PEA BB project

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Forget the hand crank and the bicycle, consider the treadle...

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organic

Pee good for the garden??

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homestead

Where Would You Go in 2026 For More Freedom

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forest garden

Syntropic Agriculture

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upcycling

other ways to recycle cardboard...furniture design

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volunteer offerings

PNW: WA. State; 29 acres up against 1 million of the Olympic National Forest, Looking for help.

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permaculture singles

Looking for a partner or a friend

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cooking

Bone broth - my first attempt

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wheaton laboratories

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

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music

Talk me out of (or into) a ukulele

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permaculture singles

Gen Z Permies

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woodland

cleaving brake

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Show me your Teapots.

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cooking

What is this old pan? It's a stove-top oven!

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intentional community

Small East Maui community farm shares available

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ozarks

Let's Talk About Fruit In the Ozarks

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intentional community

ecological sovereignty community !?

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rocket stoves

Rocket Stoves

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woodworking

all wood (or pure wood) fine woodworking - no glue or metal - advanced joinery

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intentional community

ICs where people live like humans did before civilization?

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survival

Blizzard survival story--does anyone have a good story surviving a blizzard?

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permaculture

The images of this video are amazing!

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thermal mass

Interior re-circulation

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intentional community

Small East Maui community farm shares available

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home care

Source for natural rugs?

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natural building

Hybrid systems/understanding the placement of mass in a system

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potatoes

Apartment Growing Potato methods

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