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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 aging homesteader

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watercolour questions so beginner, I'm almost afraid to ask

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

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

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Talk me out of (or into) a ukulele

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Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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

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Are hobbies dead?

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2026 - arting - quick art share

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Seth's Lazer-Focused, Long-Winded, Lively List of Lab Lessons (BEL)

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

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art

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

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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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Are you interested in building a rocket mass heater? What is holding you back?

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What do you do for work?

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Blizzard survival story--does anyone have a good story surviving a blizzard?

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cooking

what's for dinner?

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gear

What equipment should we request in our soil-improvement grant application?

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cooking

alfredo pasta sauce recipe? What's your favourite?

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recycling

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low tech

Glass clothes pins?

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Change a letter game

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propagation

cuttings in a roll

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wofati and earth berm

Hobbit Home Progress.

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apples

Value of crab apple?

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homestead

Uses for pallets

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goats and sheep

favorite sheep breeds

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Vaccinium myrtillus

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Rocks in the garden

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peaches

Peaches: An underrated fruit?

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textile techniques

Making a net

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fruit trees

Orange! What is your favorite variety of oranges?

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fungi

How to Identify Turkey Tail Mushrooms

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plants

Seeking chestnut orchard groundcover seed sources

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permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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Combining Pebble RMH combustion unit with a bell bench - we have questions

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zero waste

Uses for Wood Ash

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Anyone interested in on-grid living?

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ecovillage

Looking for like-minded folk for Northern Alberta off-grid(ish) community

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Another Interesting Video

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Building a medieval capstan with hand tools, video

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grey water & septics

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Plot 5: a new urban Community garden

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List of Vegan Permaculture Communities in Ecuador

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pigs

How many pro-pig permies use fermented grains in their feeding?

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potatoes

Potato growing in containers on a patio?

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Mobile sawbuck?

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home care

Source for natural rugs?

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potatoes

Apartment Growing Potato methods

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natural building

Old German Way of Weatherproofing a Wall

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frugality

Pallet yurt for simple shed

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Advice for making my first rocket stove for heating 2+ rooms

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music

Talk me out of (or into) a ukulele

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homestead

looking to join / start homestead in Maine

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Fermenting whole apples?

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