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Caleb's Bootcamp Experience (BRK)

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Smaugust 2025 art challenge (there are dragons)

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Unapparent disability

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Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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propagation

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Are hobbies dead?

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art

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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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Mistborn score - any good?

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

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Carrying things on your head

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wofati and earth berm

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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What's for Dinner?

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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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Round Wood Timber Framing: the Berm Shed Movie - HD Streaming

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What I do with freebie meat scraps...

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fungi

Locals call this mushroom "chicken breast" Any idea The scientific name?

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Mold forming on roundwood timbers after stripping bark

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Random cool maps

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crowdfunding

Gardening playing cards for gardeners and homesteaders Kickstarter

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Underground dwellings and ventilation

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Holding the heat overnight, the importance of shutting off the air flow.

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wood burning stoves

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smaller government?

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perennial vegetables

Perennial Vegetables for a Fall Planting

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seeds and breeding

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recycling

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wood burning stoves

Tlud analog? Easy to make " reactive" furnace \ stove

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food preservation

No need for pectin in jams!

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flowers

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Vegan Perennial Food Forest Vision

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PEP 2 Certification - Apply, Boast, and Certify Here

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First flights of the Studio Dragon

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Double payment for Solar Dehydrator Plans?

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chickens

Chicken Manure

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natural building

Small DIY backyard sauna - collecting tips and ideas

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Log in leaves me stranded Am I the only one?

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paul wheaton's permaculture podcasts

Podcast 716 - Gardening Gardeners - Part 1

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Introvert memes

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hunting and fishing

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