Category: Courses

  • A Cozy Read:The Refuge Permaculture Newsletter

    Did you receive your email copy of The Refuge Permaculture Newsletter yesterday? No? I would be very pleased to add you to my secure email list and send you a copy. “Enlightening” may be a bit hopeful on my part, but “informative”, “supportive”, “interesting” work just fine. Send an email to tarafarmandnursery@gmail.com with “Newsletter” in

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  • Simplify, Simplify, Simplify: Spring Clean Up; FINALLY Tours!!

    I love a gentle, gray, misty rain. So good for everything. Breathe in that cool, misty air.  Reminds me of the Motherland… the San Francisco Bay Area. And it is absolutely the best weather in which to get outdoor winter clean up done. The List has many things crossed off: move native soil to all

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  • Refuge in the Wind: OLLI Permaculture Classes at Casper College for 2025

    Permaculture Classes for 2025:These classes are offered through the OLLI Program at Casper College (Call if you did not get a catalog 268.3401) Please join me for as much support as I can offer – by way of presentation, tons of information, and yes, wierd and shocking stories from Laurel’s life and landscape experience! If

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  • NEW SHORT COURSE for Fall 2024  Finding a Refuge in the Wind: What Is Permaculture & Dirt to Earth Natural Soil Improvement

    The best start for your Spring garden is your Autumn work. Please join me on Saturday, October 19, 2024 from 10:00am to 2:00pm at Fort Caspar Museum Meeting Room Casper Wyoming, for two brief introductions to the nature-based garden practice of Permaculture. Drawing on my training and research, but more from my experience applying that

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  • Bee Nature; Be Nature

    Please feel absolutely free to share this postvwith others who may bee interested. 🙏🌱🙏 Bee Nature; Be Nature: As for pollinators… In the Casper Wyoming area, my OLLI 4 hour Pollinator Garden class is on Sat July 13, 2024 from 10am to 2pm. Call the Casper College OLLI Office to sign up! 307.268.3401 For everyone,

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  • All Together Now: Free Remote Consults

    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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  • Classes, Courses & Chautauquas

                   Science and pseudo-science (#horticulture, #agriculture, soils, #geomorphology, #permaculture ) is a subject I love to rant about, but let’s bring it down to the practical applications. All science begins with observation; all observation is colored by physical ability, physical setting, layer upon layer of variables, perception, interpretation and above all else the pending question.

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