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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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The aging homesteader

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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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art

Permaculture-core: what is the permaculture aesthetic?

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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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Americans, please don't use 2 letter abbreviations for your state!

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

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

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Lightweight Rocket Mass Heater Mediterranean Climate

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1000 year concrete longevity technology

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Leaving room for other peoples ideas.

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Plastic cement vs Portland cement

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Escaping the noise

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LifePo4 Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery

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rocket stoves

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Chicago hardy fig zone 6 winter protection success!

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urban gardening

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Teflon & other PFASs are seemingly everywhere....

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Using earthworks and keyline principles to maximise water for ponds and dams.

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Women homesteading ALONE?

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Free rent on a farm in Fresno County California

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Upcycling clothes!

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First improved American persimmons!

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34F Looking for a homestead hunny

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plants

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28F, been wandering the Ozarks and am ready to plant roots with someone special :)

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personal care

Show 266: Yellow Root and Yucca

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wood box/crate - PEP BB dimensional.sand.box

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skills to inherit property

Alexandra Malecki made it to PEP2! Follow my family SKIP to homestead!

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village

What makes a village a village?

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Transforming a Fireplace into a Splendid Rocket Mass Heater

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Will Bermuda grass spout through landscape fabric?

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