The Refuge Permaculture Center
At Tara Farm and Nursery
Category: Permaculture Landscape
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Step It Up Wednesdays: Garden Geeks Anonymous
Step It Up Wednesdays: Wednesdays will now offer mind-expanding, mind-blowing elements of plant and garden.Please Share these posts to help Step Up our understanding, awareness and knowledge. And to start this series: From The Salk Institute – forever working for well-being. This is fascinating! And it explains why avocado skins at the bottom of my
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Autumn Color and So Much More…
Love this Fragrant Sumac in a hedge, windbreak or mixed into a #foodforest for deep green summer leaves, pollinator and bird shelter, luscious fall colors, and holiday decoration of fuzzy dark red berry bunches through winter (winter bird food and shelter in dense branches as well.) These berries are also dried and ground as a
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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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Bean Harvest Sutra One: Feed One, Feed All
Bean Harvest Sutra – One: Feeding One, Feed All1. Cut the stem of the pinto bean bush just above the soil. Leave the roots to rot. They will release nitrogen as they decay and leave organic matter to feed the soil. Their death and decay will leave space in the soil for water, air, microbes,
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Leaf Diseases and Human Anxiety
“What is wrong with the leaves on my plants?!?” Not you! Stop blaming yourself. After having the winter of the century two years ago here in Wyoming, last year was practically no winter at all. What does that have to do with leaf disease? Those 20 below weeks we have had most years suppress all
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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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Native Chokecherry… All Seasons, All Pleasures…and a Warning
Pounded – seeds and all – and thoroughly dried it kept the First Nation’s people healthy through severe winters. Simmered low and slow on the stove until the fragrance of cherry fills the kitchen, with just a little sugar the juice becomes a perfect summer drink. Or add a little more sugar (not a lot!)and
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Special Order Plants: Just Breathe…. Elderberry for Heart and Respiration
From the rich, deep blue-black of the ripe berries to jam simmering on the stove…from full, lacy umbrellas of tiny, creamy white flowers steeped for tea, this native is so beautiful in texture and color and grows amazingly well even in the Wyoming salty clay soil. The Elderberry shrub is native to the entire northern
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Special Order Plants for 2024: A Healthy Heart
Tens of thousands of people have participated in research of this plump, sweet, juicy fruit, and what were the results: one significant study showed that two teaspoons (10 mL) of pure grape juice every day for two weeks increased serum antioxidant activity and increased the resistance of bad cholesterol to oxidation. (1) And here we
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The Heart of the Garden
If you could snack on blueberries all day long, would you? Maybe add some blueberry pie or blueberry selzer water? Most people would say “Of course!” Why? Because that deep, complex flavor is so satisfying, and besides they are a “super-fruit”, right? Every year I have clients call to ask “Please help me get these
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