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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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Caleb's Bootcamp Experience (BRK)

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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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personal care

Unapparent disability

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propagation

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ethics and philosophy

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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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The Glorious Revolution - 25th of May - Pratchett and discworld

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Carrying things on your head

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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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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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Pasture, Wetland & Forest Edge Seeds - 2025 - zone 5a

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home care

Best way to refresh air in a closed bathroom?

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ponds

Permaculture Aquarium or Pond

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homestead

The aging homesteader

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Oriental Bittersweet Control?

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wood burning stoves

heating water with 1/2 - 50' copper coil in boiling water open pot

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rocket mass heaters

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natural building

Most cost effective small building technique

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The Natural Philosophy of Dragons

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Black Walnut Guilds to Share

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pep foraging

PEP Foraging - Sand Badge

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root crops

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low tech

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pep textiles

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forest garden

Free Fertilizer from Wildlife

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alternative energy

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pep textiles

Sew on a button - PEP BB textile.straw.sewbutton

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wood burning stoves

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

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introductions

Just starting

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chickens

Why and How Deep Litter System Works in a Chicken Coop

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politics

smaller government?

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cattle

Dexter bull calves for sale and or trade

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