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PEPPERS in action

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

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

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

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

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

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

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JP and The Eternal Now (BEL)

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Gardening playing cards for gardeners and homesteaders Kickstarter

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cooking

what can I do with chestnuts?

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frugality

Struggle meals

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nuts

Stunted Chinese Chestnut Trees

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crowdfunding

The Gardening Playing Cards Purple Deck Kickstarter kickback program

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Permaculture Playing Cards - the purple deck

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earthworks

Optimal way to for Google windrows on former Willow Bog

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beauty is in the eye of the beholder

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Shorty Core gets a bell

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Wilderness Cabin Plans + Earthbag Building Guide by Owen Geiger

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gear

Hoemanship - Favorite type of Hoe?

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I'm thinking about incorporating this in my rain collection system

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plants

What is this—its taking over my tall grass area.

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Why are we mowing?

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PEP Badge: Oddball

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How to get the most out of small acreage?

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My new tiny house Masonry heater build

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Interesting new fire method

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personal care

Show 259: Glasswort and Willow

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tiny house

Saving for a tiny house

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digital market

6 Rocket Builds - 3d Plans - Free Heat Bundle

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Seeking vice-free off-grid community.

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plants

Heirloom crops of Mississippi.

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goats and sheep

Some help spotting signs of pregnant goats

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root crops

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wild harvesting

What are some winter crafts/activities using only natural materials?

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First flights of the Studio Dragon

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chickens

Chicken Manure

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

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wood burning stoves

First time trying to improve efficiency- any advice welcome

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frugality

Frugal or just being smug...have you scored a real deal recently?

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cooking

What do you use instead of store bought cooking spray?

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cottage industry

Business idea - craft studio / DIY maker space

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seeds and breeding

Garlic Time

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Hobbit Home Progress.

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web sites

Grok and LLMs in general

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ethics and philosophy

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