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Music of the Moment

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A lot about apples!

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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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propagation

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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art

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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nuts

Small chestnuts

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plants

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

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aquaponics

Can aquaponics really be permaculture?

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Change a letter game

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Studio dragon gets some bling

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chickens

Keeping chickens home

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First flights of the Studio Dragon

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pep textiles

Harvest fabric from old clothes for new projects - PEP BB textile.straw.fabric

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Fall Decor Pumpkins/squash that are excellent eating

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Rebekah's 800 plates journal

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Relationship Status

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vines

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natural building

Very thin insulation and flooring?

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root crops

Best storing sweet potato varieties

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cooking

What can I make with green tomatoes?

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crowdfunding

Sourdough Without Fail Kickstarter - October 7th - November 6th

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online learning

Fantastic free 110-page rain garden resource

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rocket mass heaters

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

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wood burning stoves

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

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permaculture singles

Mid MO Man 40, with 4 kids.

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hunting and fishing

Permies Poll: What type of fishing reel do you usually use?

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experiences with melatonin for sleep?

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polyculture

Jerusalem Artichoke (sunchoke) and Sweet Lupine Regenerative Cover Crop

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politics

smaller government?

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gear

Most used Fall tools

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potatoes

Permies' Potato experiments

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seeds and breeding

Where can I get sunchokes?

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seeds and breeding

Northern oceanic tomatoes

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Edible Air Potato (Dioscorea bulbifera) - Buy, Sell & Trade

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