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

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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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Random cool maps

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Hobby, crafting, or art no-buy anyone? (perennial self-accountability thread)

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Are hobbies dead?

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

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

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wood burning stoves

Matt Walker continental stove build

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

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

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wofati and earth berm

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

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

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Carrying things on your head

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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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JP and The Eternal Now (BEL)

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Chicago hardy fig zone 6 winter protection success!

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Sourdough book kickstarter planning - October 2025!

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meralgia paresthetica exercises (outer thigh numbness and pain)

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What's your best, most delicious way to cook potatoes?

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paul wheaton

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dogs and cats

Itchy Dogs - Treatment Ideas

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Growing Food on a Budget

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natural building

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Permies Poll: How many cords of wood do you burn a year?

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permaculture singles

"60 Something" Woodsman seeking friendship w/unconventional woman.

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intentional community

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dynamic accumulators

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plants

Lignin Content after Chop and Drop

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rocket mass heaters

shorty core replacing bbr with sidewinder

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kit buildings

Anyone have experience or opinions about "EZ Log" type buildings?

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Plot 33: A new community 'forest garden'

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quail and pigeons

Deep litter method

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wildlife

Creating a habitat for goldfinches.

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potatoes

What's eating my potatoes?

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paul wheaton's pseudo blog

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My version of Elizabeth Cotten's "Freight Train"

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digital market

Companion Planting Guide by World Permaculture Association

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music

Permaculture Music

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rocket stoves

home-made ceramic fiberboard? and what's the embodied energy?

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solar

Why grass grows better under trampolines

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plants

What are your favorite hot and humid weather plants?

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tinkering with this site

Leaving room for other peoples ideas.

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be nice

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nuts

growing peanuts...might have made a mistake

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wood burning stoves

Wood burning - a very expensive "free" option

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