The Refuge Permaculture Center
At Tara Farm and Nursery
Author: The Refuge Permaculture Center at Tara Farm and Nursery
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Warm Chokecherry Rhubarb Cobbler in Winter: Start Here
Sorry it’s been so long! May and June are crazy busy months. But to have those warm winter treats from my own gardens I choose to work hard right now.. After seeing an increase in posts online about “food forests”, and living in The Wind Corridor of the Northern Rockies, I decided to do a…
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Rainwater Harvesting & Asparagus Update
#thegardenisnotclosed The Garden Is NOT Closed! Take a look at an easy precipitation harvest setup -rain and/or snowmelt to keep the clay – soil Meditation Garden waking up. My hands are washed but the scars prove my work! Let’s get outside!
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All Together Now: Free Remote Consults
All Together Now: Free Remote Consults Beginning March 30 Text, Email or Messenger & Get Discounts Every spring I get texts (got one today!!), emails and phone calls with questions on plants, gardens, water, soil and design projects. Starting March 30, 2020 I will be taking questions and brainstorming by text, email, Facebook Messenger or…
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The Earth Abides Series 2020: Asparagus Care & Feeding in Central Wyoming
Duck egg / asparagus / mushroom / mozzarella scramble last night. It was the last of the 2019 frozen asparagus; the duck eggs were fresh. (I’m getting a dozen every couple days and sharing them with my neighbor.) The ducks are presently cultivating the Meditation Garden, the little vineyard and the the Ribes Patch…
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The Earth Abides Series: Health in Your Hands
Between heavy, wet spring snow, monsoonal downpours and temperatures changing 40 degrees in a matter of hours, there are many things to be done outside. This is your Un-COVID source of calming, productive, earthy exercise and information. This was an easy project, although there is a little more securing to be done before the…
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Gooseberry: Time to Prune …
Gooseberry fruit only develops on the underside of new wood. Watch those nasty little thorns, please. On branches that are well established and are woody, find potential leaf bud about 1/3 in from the end. Use sharp pruners. Cut at about a 45 degree angle at a point that will encourage the new wood to…
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Unfurling Spring
In the Great High and Dry of Central Wyoming (USA) one of the first plants to wake up will be the asparagus. Usually in April. it is so difficult to wait until a dozen or so spears poke up through the soil. I only harvest a few of the new spears, and then daily…
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Moments in exhaustion…
“Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you are bravely working.” ~ Rumi … another fork full, MuMa!! We are still waiting!!
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Winter Tales From The Refuge
Resilience does not mean Super Woman…
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Brilliance Knows No Boundaries
Is saving the planet a ‘non-profit, mission of sacrificing everything … or can brilliance even in finance come into play? We need more and more and a thousand times more like these! And note that clean rain water collection is a benefit, along with lighter weight requiring less intense weight-bearing construction materials, less labor intensive,…
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