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Game - Picture Association

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What is it.... the game! Post unknown objects to ID... and to stump others!

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funny signs

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Music of the Moment

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permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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Quote of the day

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PEPPERS in action

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

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Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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Caleb's Bootcamp Experience (BRK)

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The aging homesteader

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Smaugust 2025 art challenge (there are dragons)

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art

Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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personal care

Unapparent disability

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art

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

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

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Are hobbies dead?

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art

Permaculture-core: what is the permaculture aesthetic?

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

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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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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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art

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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What do you do for work?

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How can I put a shade on this lamp?

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Cool Tools, lesser known tools that can improve your life

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grains and pseudograins

Corn fungus identification

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Spokane Dirt Church - A Monthly Permaculture Club

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Exterior stain

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It is National Fluffernutter Day, what is that?

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medicinal herbs

Homemade soda: Getting back to the medicinal origins

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transition towns

New Intentional Community, Eco-Village, Permaculture Farm looking for start-up members

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Tiny House accommodation in exchange for work - South Florida

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What's for Dinner?

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intentional community

ISO: Colorado communities

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Glyphosate in rain water

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straw bale house

No spray hay bales

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rocket mass heaters

shorty core replacing bbr with sidewinder

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personal care

Natural Skincare Regimen

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land shares

Seeking Partners for Puerto Rico or tropic homestead

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Music of the Moment

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personal care

Making a good first aid kit

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crowdfunding

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

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intentional community

Looking for others who want to start an off-grid community in the Ozarks

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homestead

Permies Poll: Do you own your homestead?

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low tech

Carrying things on your head

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solar

Query concerning LiFePO4 charging

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personal challenges

How do I turn my wish into reality?

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rural

Harvest Moon Day (well, night, really)

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large farm

The extreme danger of machinery.

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food as medicine

best way to use whole plant fresh ginger and turmeric?

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workshops

Forestgarden- gathering

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science and research

Why farmers may want to keep, not kill, weeds

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shelters and habitat

How to Create a Habitat for Hummingbirds

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Guide to easy and cheap pea microgreens, with lots of pictures

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wood burning stoves

Building to hold out the Russian winters

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chickens

Avian flu: When/if to freak out?

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plant fibers

how to remove mildew from cloth?

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potatoes

Planted a huge variety of potato sorts - half of the harvest was from one single variety

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crowdfunding

Permaculture Playing Cards - the purple deck

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potatoes

growing potatoes as perennials

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wild harvesting

From the Spring Foraging Cookbook: Jewel Weed or Touch Me Not

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fermentation

Fermenting commercially canned beets??

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plants

Venus flytrap--growing and watering tips?

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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homestead

Overwhelm

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food preservation

How to create paw-paw puree and freezing it in a different way.

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vines

trumpet vine for shade...how close to house? too aggresive?

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flea market

UK seed swap or pass it on

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