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Monday, December 21, 2020

Winter Sun


 

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Where, What, How


 

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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

What Women Want


 


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Collapsniks and Survivalists

  • SurvivalBlog.com
    Preparedness Notes for Saturday — December 21, 2024
    7 hours ago
  • SHTF Plan
    Louisiana Patient Tests Positive For Bird Flu – On Par With Dr. Peter Hotez’s Pandemic Threats
    14 hours ago
  • Notes From The Bunker
    RXM inbound
    20 hours ago
  • James H. Kunstler
    Yet Another Christmas Carol
    23 hours ago
  • Ask a Prepper
    5 Native American Weapons You Should Have
    1 day ago
  • Survival Life
    Christmas Camping Survival: Tips for a Safe and Memorable Winter Adventure
    1 day ago
  • The Economic Collapse
    “17 Military Bases Adjacent To Chinese-Owned Farmland” Have Been Swarmed By Mystery Drones, And This Phenomenon Goes Back For At Least A Year
    1 day ago
  • Urban Survival Site
    How to Stay Warm in Your Car When Stuck During A Winter Storm
    1 day ago
  • Modern Survival Blog
    Best Geiger Counter Nuclear Radiation Detector For Preppers
    2 days ago
  • The Survival Mom
    The Importance of an Annual Insurance Check-Up (and How I Saved $7,000!)
    6 days ago
  • Our Finite World
    The world economy needs to simplify
    2 weeks ago
  • TheSurvivalistBlog.net
    24 Must-Have Items That Will Vanish First in a Crisis
    3 months ago
  • Survivopedia
    Best 17 silent weapons for when SHTF
    4 months ago
  • Bio Prepper
    20 Medicinal Herbs Every Prepper Must Grow
    5 months ago
  • Economic Undertow
    The Good, the Bad and the Takfiri (Repost from 2014)
    1 year ago
  • Know Prepare Survive
    Self Defense Weapons for Minors
    1 year ago
  • RESOURCE CRISIS
    Margherita Sarfatti: the Woman Who Destroyed Mussolini
    1 year ago
  • Knowledge Weighs Nothing
    Hello world!
    1 year ago
  • Skilled Survivor
    The Top 10 Wilderness
    1 year ago
  • Guide Outdoors
    Forward-Facing Sonar is Changing Much of Fishing
    1 year ago
  • The Prepper Journal
    Pressure Test Yourself
    2 years ago
  • Graywolf Survival
    How to communicate when the world goes silent
    2 years ago
  • Bison Prepper
    April Article- Newer Relocation Guide
    2 years ago
  • The Modern Survivalist »
    Land of the Free, home of the Brave… so you mean Denmark?
    3 years ago
  • Survival Frog Blog
    Hurricane Survival 101
    3 years ago
  • Outdoor Life
    How I Introduced My City Kid to His First Hunting Gun
    3 years ago
  • Loki's Revenge
    Green Energy Kills Natives
    4 years ago
  • The Doomsday Moose
    How to Create a Bug-Out Motorcycle
    4 years ago
  • Collapse of Industrial Civilization
    The Apocalypse Will Not Be Televised
    4 years ago
  • Bison Prepper Bonus Material
    free today
    6 years ago

Useful Websites

  • After The Deadline
  • Aldi's
  • Amazing Koala (Jokes)
  • Butler Eagle Classified Ads
  • Classical Daily Download
  • Club Orlov
  • Google Calendar
  • H&R Block Small Business
  • ImgFlip Meme Maker
  • Internet Anagram Server
  • KUSC
  • Spiral Survival: The Card Game
  • Straight Talk
  • Strong Towns
  • TextBroker
  • The Book Of Life
  • ToodleDo
  • Weather Underground
  • Wind Globe
  • Yahoo! Mail

News and Aggregation Sites

  • Bullets, Beans, and Bullion
  • Daily Collapse Report
  • Daily Good
  • Daily Sheeple
  • Doomstead Diner News
  • KDog's Reading Room
  • Ol' Remus's Woodpile Report
  • Prepper Website
  • The Daily SUN

Podcasts and Videos

  • Doom and Bloom (TM)
    Can We End School Shootings?
  • The Survival Podcast
    Frank Sharpe on Coming Unrest – Friday Flashbacks – Epi-58
  • Homesteading and Permaculture by Paul Wheaton
    Podcast 684 – State of the Jungle – Part 3
  • The Permaculture Podcast
    Agroforestry and Food Forests with Byron Birss
  • EatTheWeeds
    Sign Up
  • Chicken Whisperer
    What To Do With All That Chicken Poop
  • Peak Moment Television
    End of an Era
  • Grateful Dread Public Radio
    Why It Is Necessary To Carry Out Regular Electrical Inspection And Maintenance
  • Living the Good Life Naturally
    Natural Thyroid Tips, Connecting to Leptin
  • Harvest Eating Podcast
    424-Roasted Carrots w Sesame, ORange & Honey
  • The Radical Personal Finance Podcast
    583 – Mega Friday Q&A: (two days early) Richest Man in Babylon, Children and F.I., Invest All at Once, Preparing for Marriage, What’s Next, Etc!
  • Self-Sufficient Homestead - Surviving Civilization on the Homestead
    SSHomestead-01 Log Cabin

Rewilders and Bushcrafters

  • Voice In The Wilderness
    A book review: "THE EVENT: At Dawn's Early Light"
    2 days ago
  • Dirttime
    My Fall Colors Drive
    2 years ago
  • Peter Michael Bauer
    Episode 18: A Conversation w/ Eli Loomis
    3 years ago
  • Wilderness Innovation
    How to Choose a Poncho Size
    6 years ago
  • Primitive Technology
    Wood ash cement
    6 years ago
  • Wood Trekker
    Why I No Longer Buy Under Armour Products
    8 years ago

Favorite Forums

  • AGelbert's Renewable Revolution Forum
  • Doomstead Diner Forum
  • Golden Oxen's First Amendment Forum
  • Green Wizards Forum
  • Paracord Forum
  • Permies.com Forum
  • SUN 4 Living Forum
  • Square Foot Gardening Forum
  • The Commons Free Speech Area
  • The Survivalist Blog

Blog Crypt

  • Aquaponics at RatherYes.com
  • Bacon and Eggs
  • Cheap-Ass-Living
  • Decline of the Empire
  • Gardening Along The Creek...
  • James M. Dakin
  • Living Prepared
  • New Growth Homestead
  • Of The Hands
  • Peak Oil Debunked
  • Small Batch Garden
  • TEOTWAWKI Blog
  • The Deliberate Agrarian
  • The Deliberate Agrarian 2.0
  • The Deliberate American
  • The Flying Tortoise
  • The Gardener of Eden
  • The Leibowitz Society
  • The Oil Drum
  • The Prepper Pages
  • Thermal Cooking
  • Thoughts from Frank and Fern
  • Toby Hemenway
  • Upland
  • Upland
  • Veggiegobbler

Fellow Upslopers

  • Epic Gardening
    11 Things to Do Immediately When You Bring Home a New Orchid - The post 11 Things to Do Immediately When You Bring Home a New Orchid is by Matt Dursum and appeared first on Epic Gardening, the best urban gardening, h...
    1 hour ago
  • Deep Green Permaculture
    Transforming Glass: A Beginners Guide to Upcycling Bottles and Jars with a Bottle Cutter - In today’s world, where environmental sustainability is a growing priority, upcycling has emerged as a creative solution that goes beyond traditional recyc...
    2 hours ago
  • PRACTICAL PARSIMONY
    The Last Decoration - I found two items I bought on sale last year. Tommy will install one tomorrow, Saturday. This is the little stake in the yard with a projector that puts...
    6 hours ago
  • MorningChores
    Celebrating Christmas at Homestead: 5 Ways to Make It More Meaningful - Before I started homesteading, there was a period when I wanted to “turn off” Christmas. With endless rows of decorations on display at big box stores eve...
    10 hours ago
  • Rural Revolution
    Anyone want a free grand piano? - I've seen all kinds of spam emails, but this was a new one. This arrived on Dec. 16 with the subject line of "Grand Piano" and a message as follows: Hel...
    13 hours ago
  • Paracord Projects, Art and Tutorials
    Did I do this correctly? - [image: Did I do this correctly?] In my last post, I realized I used the wrong method to tie a Shark Jawbone paracord. I redid the whole process. I just...
    18 hours ago
  • Wilderness Dweller
    The Non-Winter. - Environment Canada puts out these monthly forecast maps. Most of the last half of this year has looked like this. The darker the red, the hotter than “norm...
    19 hours ago
  • one hundred dollars a month
    Weekend Plans - Have you figured out your weekend plans yet? It’s still hard to believe that Christmas is in 5 days!!! And on a wednesday! The timing is great for those...
    1 day ago
  • M.D. Creekmore
    Did YouTube hide this video from you? - Did YouTube hide this video from you? From my stats it shows that over 90% of views on it are from people who aren’t subscribed! Strange… Let me know in th...
    1 day ago
  • Miss Mustard Seed
    four things | twelve (Christmas edition) - This will be my final Four Things of the year since I will take a few weeks off for Christmas break. If you’ve been reading my blog, you might remember ...
    1 day ago
  • Tiny House Blog
    Mindful Consumption - Throughout the years of publishing Tiny House Magazine, we have been fortunate to have Joshua Becker from Becoming Minimalist as a contributor. Today I w...
    2 days ago
  • Shareable.com
    Agrivoltaics: Harvesting the sun to benefit farmers, crops, and livestock - The destructive nature of climate change is readily apparent in each week’s news, and it is clear that we must transition to renewable energy at an accel...
    3 days ago
  • Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
    Good Food and Gratitude: A Dancing Rabbit Update - Life is busy when I look at all the things that happen in a two-week timeframe at my home, Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. When the lives of 50 or so people a...
    4 days ago
  • Organic Authority
    What Are Sugar Alcohols in Food? A Registered Dietician’s POV on Xylitol and Erythritol - Sugar alcohols are often recommended as a healthy alternative to sugar. But before you throw out all your table sugar, it’s worth addressing — what are sug...
    4 days ago
  • A Moveable Garden
    LIMINAL LIVING #50: 9 DECEMBER TO 15 DECEMBER 2024 - Weekly recap of my ritual of existence in this liminal space called life. (See here for more info.) This week was warmish then coldish … Continue reading
    5 days ago
  • Milkwood - Courses + Skills for Real Life
    Permaculture Holiday Reads for 2025 - I can’t wait to get into this Permaculture Holiday Reads book-stack. All are books that I’ve been waiting to read for MONTHS, or have just come out, or j...
    5 days ago
  • My Adventures in selfreliance
    I’m still alive, Xmas stuff - Still alive and kicking here at Casa de Chaos. The weather has been foggy/gloomy so I have not been feeling my best overall. Finally got a weather front t...
    6 days ago
  • Mom's Scribbles
    Still Here - No, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. Just now I have been working on putting together albums of old family photos. When I am gone, I want my...
    2 weeks ago
  • Root Simple
    Masters of Carpentry at Japan House - A traveling exhibit from the Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum landed at Japan House this month and it’s both a fascinating look at the intricacies of Japane...
    2 weeks ago
  • Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture
    Apprenticeship fuels sustainable farming careers - At Pasa we believe the best way to help people navigate the pathway to a sustainable careers in farming is to connect folks at every stage of their journ...
    4 weeks ago
  • The Wealthy Earth
    Prepping your garden for winter - Best time to clean up your gardens and to set yourself up for success next spring. This simple method has served me well for decades. The first thing I do...
    5 weeks ago
  • The Essential Herbal Blog
    The Essential Herbal - November December 2024 - porterstavern@yahoo.com porterstavern@yahoo.com We got to work very early on this issue so that we could take care of some stuff around the farm. As we ...
    1 month ago
  • The Homestead Survival
    Homemade Greek Baklava Recipe - Learn how to make homemade Greek baklava with this delicious recipe. When you look at a piece of baklava it always looks like it would be very labor intens...
    2 months ago
  • LOW-TECH MAGAZINE
    Communal Luxury: The Public Bathhouse - [image: Image: Bathhouse built on top of a hot pool, Taiwan. Photo from early 19th century, public domain.] Image: Bathhouse built on top of a hot pool, T...
    3 months ago
  • A Home Grown Journal
    A Change - *Blogging was different when I made my first post in mid-2008. I've thoroughly enjoyed it as a way of communication and treasure the many readers with who...
    5 months ago
  • Heavenstretch
    Midyear 2024 Ruminations - My last blog post here was back on January first. Today is exactly six months later. It’s about time, eh? Here are a few random ruminations… Did you watch ...
    5 months ago
  • Small virtues
    Replanting a thought - Northern hemisphere readers will be taking in the sunshine, as summer days increase the enjoyment of outdoors. It's quite the opposite in the Southern h...
    6 months ago
  • Living on a Dime
    Cottage Cheese Salad Recipe – Cool And Refreshing! - This quick and easy cottage cheese salad recipe is a tasty and colorful way to take a break from regular veggie salads and sweet salads. The post Cottage...
    7 months ago
  • Gully Grove
    - *2022* Hello there, dwelling place of the crickets. My last post was almost a year ago. What happened? A lot! I could say it was a lack of time and that ...
    8 months ago
  • Small Holding
    End of Feb 2024 - Wish I had better news this late into Spring than I do but I am informed that either the Auto Group I worked for or Ford directly is now directly refusing...
    9 months ago
  • Food Assets
    Ocean Currents - A basic overview of how the world’s ocean currents work:
    10 months ago
  • Rain's Garden
    Rain Frances Creations - Are you looking for Thursday Art and Dinner Date? Please click on the above image to be redirected to my new website where TADD is now hosted!
    10 months ago
  • Cairncrest Farm
    Gratitude vs. Thanksgiving - Gratitude journals are fairly thick on the ground these days. Try to find a solution to most any problem, from raising an adolescent to an obsession with...
    1 year ago
  • Dark Green Mountain Survival Research Centre
    Every Day Is Halloween. Fires, Floods And Fascism - Preppers had their Fe-wings hurt when that meme showed up in the spring, about this year. I’d been warning them about this since my first year of this blog...
    1 year ago
  • Chicken Feathers
    Dear Friends - Coopville Monday, August 21, 2023 Dear friends..... I have decided to put the blog to bed. I am having too many problems with Blogger and my old, ol...
    1 year ago
  • Living Echo
    Putting the Home into Homesteading - We have been living at The Knob for less than a week and we are already up to our eyeballs in projects. First off was the task of unloading every shiny ...
    1 year ago
  • Ecological Gardening
    Achieving 30x30: Percentages Matter, We’re All in This Together, and What You Do to Help Counts Big-time - [image: Achieving 30x30: Percentages Matter, We’re All in This Together, and What You Do to Help Counts Big-time] Green space in the Chicago region (credit...
    1 year ago
  • --- Living Prepared ---
    Good Bye Mrs. Yukon - Good Bye Mrs. Yukon, we will miss you, especially me! She was in perfect medical condition but on 9/4, she had a seizure which led to the discovery of...
    2 years ago
  • Ready Nutrition
    This Giant ‘Water Battery’ Under the Swiss Alps Could Be a Game-Changer for Renewable Energy in Europe - There is a gigantic water battery located in the canton of Valais, under the Swiss Alps, called Nant de Drance. It's a hydropower plant that provides the...
    2 years ago
  • Eat The Weeds and other things, too
    Sedum: Stonecrop - Confessions of forager: In a general sense I have known for many years that “Stonecrops” were edible. I avoided them as they were usually associated by ...
    2 years ago
  • Financial Velociraptor
    Bull Call Spread Dell and strangle QYLD - Two trades this week. music selection: “Drive” — The Cars weigh-in: 193.8 n/c I like the chart on DELL. It is in a steady uptrend with only very minor p...
    3 years ago
  • The Self-Sufficient Blog
    How to respond to “why are your farm products so expensive?” - The post How to respond to “why are your farm products so expensive?” appeared first on Farm Websites & Marketing Support for Farm & Craft Food Businesses.
    3 years ago
  • Around The Cabin
    Video Game Scum - Scum is a game I have been playing and find very interesting. The post Video Game Scum appeared first on WWW.AROUNDTHECABIN.COM.
    3 years ago
  • FoodProduction101
    อาหารที่มีคุณภาพดีอย่างไร - ในปัจจุบันนี้เรื่องของอาหารนั้นก็เป็นเรื่องหนึ่งที่เราเองก็ควรที่จะต้องให้ความสนใจและให้ความสำคัญกันอย่างที่สุดจะยิ่งเป็นเรื่องที่ดีเพราะว่า...
    3 years ago
  • Highly Uncivilized
    What Makes The Best Belize Fly Fishing Lodges Different Than A Regular Fishing Lodge? - When someone says Belize many things tend to come to mind: Beautiful Island Living White Sandy Beaches Friendly, English Speaking People But, when a fly ...
    3 years ago
  • coldantlerfarm
    A FRESH START! - Hey all! Great news! The new home of this blog is at coldantlerfarmny.com with updates several times a week in a much snazzier viewer! Also all the farm ...
    3 years ago
  • Mind Your Dirt
    Hired Goons: Protecting My Backyard Chickens from Hawks in the Most Organic Way Ever. An Army of Crows. - Have you ever stepped out into your yard to admire your flock while sipping the morning coffee and scratching your butt only to hear that death scream from...
    3 years ago
  • The Natural Health Library | Site-Wide Activity
    Angie posted an update in the group Recommended Products: I bought a Rumblex Plus - you may have heard me mention it [ ] - I bought a Rumblex Plus – you may have heard me mention it in the FB group. I highly recommend them. I noticed a difference from the first time I used mi...
    4 years ago
  • Of Brambles and Bears....
    Reset.... - Been slacking a little with regards work this week, just found myself absolutely knackered mentally and a tad physically. Trouble is with this slackin...
    4 years ago
  • Arthur Haines Blog
    #GetOverYourselfYounger - I read the following article recently (“OK boomer” isn’t just about the past. It’s about our apocalyptic future; URL: https://www.vox.com/2019/11/19/20963...
    4 years ago
  • Paradise Lot
    2020 Garden Help Days - Spring is on its way! Winter is winding down – some might say it never really arrived. We’re looking forward to seeing all of our wonderful volunteers agai...
    4 years ago
  • City Farmer News
    Missouri charmer led double life, masterminded one of the biggest frauds in farm history - One of the biggest organic farm scams in history By Mike Hendricks Kansas City Star January 12, 2020 Excerpt: Records showed that in 2016 he sold 7 percent...
    4 years ago
  • Tenth Acre Farm
    How to Build a Rain Garden to Capture Runoff - Learn how to build a rain garden that captures rainwater runoff from hard surfaces, such as a roof or pavement, for irrigation or to reduce water polluti...
    4 years ago
  • Plain and Joyful Living
    Monday, December 2nd - Hello friends, Today we woke to a few inches of freshly fallen snow and all looks beautiful. I thought I would share a little bit about our handmade an...
    5 years ago
  • Scirpidiella's Plants
    Hybrid of Hardy Tamarillo’s (Cyphomandra corymbiflora x fragrans) - part 3 - On July 2019 I posted the photos of first flowers the hybrid of *Hardy Tamarillo **Cyphomandra corymbiflora* (female parent) and male *Guava Tamarillo **C....
    5 years ago
  • Open Source Ecology
    Limits to Distributed Manufacturing - I asked Dr. Joshua Pearce from the Michigan Tech’s Lab in Open Sustainability Technology: What kind of reception have you gotten on your 3D Printers Save...
    5 years ago
  • Frippery Farm
    Protect Yourself - I refuse to be dragged into the politics of the various mass and public shootings we have recently had in this country. What this post is about is Protectin...
    5 years ago
  • Food Forest at Restful Trails
    4th of July 2019 - Well Joel bought the three of us a new to us used car. Had a few glitches, as we had to replace the brakes, they were a mess, wierd fluid in them. But it...
    5 years ago
  • Temperate Climate Permaculture
    Permaculture Showcase Garden - Here are a couple photos from a garden area next to our house... what I am calling our Showcase Permaculture Garden. It's only a couple seasons old, so the...
    5 years ago
  • Oklahoma Transient
    *****Winners Announced***** - The winners of the Gerber Suspension Multi-Plier + Sheath, and the Victorniox Swiss Army Knife are: Wyoming Heart, you won the *Gerber* And Hobo, you ...
    5 years ago
  • Tramp's Camp
    Flicker Family - This season we have three Flickers that are visiting regularly. The first time we had them visit some years ago, one was working hard to chisel away at ...
    6 years ago
  • Moneyless World - Free World - Priceless World
    Gift Economy - Suelo's TEDx talk - *[*As of today (March 11, 2019), I finally published the edited written transcript of the TEDx talk, with slides, on my website: Suelo's TEDx talk & Tra...
    6 years ago
  • Sunnybrook Farm
    Monday walk to the barn - Aggy went for a walk to the barn and a doe was watching her from near the creek. She had probably never seen a dog spinning around in a circle and of cou...
    6 years ago
  • The Thrifty Garden/Home
    Historical Docu-Drama - ... set between 1785 through 1812 in the state of Maine, USA. *A Midwife's Tale*, ..."*this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household ...
    6 years ago
  • Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm
    We have moved to a new website... - Hi everyone! The blog continues, but at a permanent new location: http://ferngladefarm.com.au/ I look forward to seeing you all there. Comments posted he...
    6 years ago
  • Krazo Acres
    Dem Bones - We butchered one of our Boer goats last month…..or was it the month before? “BBQ” the wether was past prime butchering time (i.e. we should have last fal...
    6 years ago
  • Farm Hack Blog
    Gathering for Open Ag Technology! - Hello Farm Hack community! You are invited to apply for GOAT: Gathering for Open Agricultural Technology hosted at the Omega Institute in New York state ...
    6 years ago
  • *Framboise Manor*
    Welcome March 1, 2018 - we know that we have 30 more days of potential storms, lots of snow, power outages, etc., but when march 1 looks like this, we are more than pleased! that...
    6 years ago
  • 500 Dollar Tomato
    Time Flies - A few weeks ago I got the bright idea to start a Facebook Group for Family pictures. Sort of a Ancestry.com for my Mom, siblings and their extended familie...
    6 years ago
  • the irresistible fleet of bicycles
    - Agriculture Conference 2018 will take place from the 7th to 10th of February at the Goetheanum in Dornach. The biodynamic preparations bring vitality to th...
    6 years ago
  • Planning And Foresight
    A Much Needed Update - Like the title suggests, I'm doing a much needed update and probably the last one of the year. I'll try to cover all the bases... Since my schooling has of...
    7 years ago
  • Casaubon's Book
    Foster Care, Immigration and Where We are Headed - Four years ago we were foster parents to two wonderful children whose family was broken up by deportation. The parents had overstayed their visas (ie, they...
    7 years ago
  • Agriphemera
    1941Planet Jr.Agricultural Implements Catalog - Cover of the 1941 Planet Jr. Catalog Here's a great find for the Planet Jr. collector. This 1941 catalog has 48 pages and is packed with photos and infor...
    7 years ago
  • Maple Seeds of Maine
    Knitting and Reading -
    7 years ago
  • Polyface Hen House
    Kick the Supermarket Habit! 10 Tips for Identifying Nutritious, Life-Giving Foods - Tip #10 – Ignore the food pyramid… and the “My Plate” Let’s take a look at the role of the USDA in this mess we’re in. Why does it continue to recommend D...
    7 years ago
  • Epiphany Now
    Plutocracy - I don't understand how they get away with it. That is the mystery to me. All of the power should be with the people as we have the numbers, but it's no...
    7 years ago
  • Simple Everyday Living
    Pickled Salmon and Applesauce - Made my first batch of pickled salmon yesterday. I had a King salmon fillet in the freezer from 2015 and since it was from the Columbia River in Washington...
    8 years ago
  • treeseeddreaming
    Defcon 3 - Crazy enough, in the midst of our scandalous Presidential election, we have managed to get up to Defcon 3 in a battle of wills with Russia. Our Defcon (de...
    8 years ago
  • EducationalGardens
    How to Keep Your Garden Safe from Wildlife - They’re so cute! William Moss, Master Gardener with the National Gardening Association, knows that everyone likes wildlife. The sight of a pair of deer pau...
    8 years ago
  • MrBrownThumb
    Fall Vegetable Gardening: What to Plant in September - Are you the kind of gardener who thinks the season is over once your tomatoes ripen? Maybe life got in the way and you didn't plant a summer garden and thi...
    8 years ago
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  • Peak Energy
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  • Piper Michael
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  • Liberation Ecology
    April 20th @ Haverford College. Beyond the Grassroots: Participatory Ecology and Political Praxis - Very excited about this event next month. Please join us! Free, no registration required. Details below. Participatory ecology as movement. Grassroots move...
    6 years ago
  • HRBlock Talk
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    6 years ago
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    7 years ago
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    7 years ago
  • Off the Grid in Minneapolis
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  • Jake's Health Solutions
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    8 years ago
  • More Crows than Eagles
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    8 years ago
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    9 years ago
  • The Long Ascent
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    11 years ago
  • No More Fake News
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Upslope Businesses

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  • Pinetree Garden Seeds
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    6 years ago
  • Avian Aqua Miser
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    8 years ago
  • Harris Seeds
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    8 years ago
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    9 years ago
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