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

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

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

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ecological sovereignty community !?

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

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Source for natural rugs?

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Apartment Growing Potato methods

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botched bean saving

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Mother of Pearl

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Solar sand/thermal mass battery in combination with RMH

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Rocket Mass Heater Resources Wiki

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Show 271: Ivy

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58 Y.O. Spiritual Male Homesteader, Near Chattanooga, TN

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bugs

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trees

Air prune beds

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Show me your Teapots.

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