The Refuge Permaculture Center
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Category: Springtime In the Great High and Dry
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Notes from the Kowshed…2025.05.28
…a sweet morning walk in the rain. But what about that rain?… …mindfulness … but not too full…
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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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Simplify Spring Activity: Mulch
Our part in garden life is to bring together the conditions necessary to maintain or improve the living beings there – plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, insects, microbes, and us. When the plants are big enough, they provide their own winter blanket…falling leaves. Mulch: maintains soil moisture; insulates the earth above the roots from weather extremes;
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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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Closer and Closer: Seeds for Spring 2025 -Sainfoin
The raspberry patch is so packed full of plants that it is difficult to open the soil for restoration. And the grape vines have been producing so heavily the last few years it clearly is time to do something other than lay compost or mulch on top of the soil. Some research and some conversation
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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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Not Science Fiction Any More
Step It Up Wednesday or The Holidays Are Over Now: Hail in Thunderstorms is the Home of Living Beings Recently I listened to THE most fascinating book I have experienced in years. And here I am going to share part of it with all of you… After hearing this, I did some research. Sure enough;
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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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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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Radical and Root Have the Same Origin
Most folks who follow me have no ‘edge’, no passion for the radical approach. Their gardening comes more from the institutionalized Master Gardener dogma perspective. I engage with them believing that there will be a moment when the light will go on and they will realize how strong they can be from seeing their place
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