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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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What's for Dinner?

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

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Ecovillage Tours 2026

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

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David Holmgren's "Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability"

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sowing brassica seeds in winter?

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Free Fertilizer from Wildlife

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Clothes from wood bark

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Cast Refractor Failure?

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Soil CEC (Cation Exchange Capacity)

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38 yr old Male looking for Female partner to start or join a homestead/ecovillage with

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My Burning Question: How do you pronounce "Peridot"?

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Free Seeds! - 2020

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rocket mass heaters

Lightweight Rocket Mass Heater Mediterranean Climate

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cover crops

How Do You Cover Your Seeds?

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cob

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permaculture singles

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rocket mass heaters

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Coconut shells

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root crops

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toilet alternatives

Updates on my Flush Vermicomposting Toilet Design

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tiny house

post and beam foundation -- where to lay the beams

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ecovillage

Looking for like-minded people for homestead neighbours in Central Mexico

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organic

raised bed paths ?

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Game - Picture Association

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plants

zone 4 hardy wild blackberries

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