The Refuge Permaculture Center
At Tara Farm and Nursery
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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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Passions Merge: Organic Design and Clean Water (after murder) …
The Geometry of Organic Design and Clean Water. (In memory and tribute to the efforts of Dr. Nakamura to provide clean water for irrigation and people) Just the form of these towers is comforting. Locally sourced materials. Simple technology and construction. I have the unlikely fantasy of creating one here. Who knows. And like the…
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FIRE RANT TWO: Firefighters and Only You Can (Mitigate)Disasters
FIRE RANT TWO: In my first lifetime, as one of the first female cops in my region, family and friends were fascinated and thought I was something very special. I wasnt. I was just another pioneer. Like my Great Great Grandfather James Pursell. Who were my hero’s at that time? Who did I see every…
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California Fire Rant: I Was a First Responder; I Lost My Home To Fire; I Know What I’m Writing g About
Somewhere in the very deep back of my mind I thought that I might return to California to die. It was mostly fantasy. I’ve always told people that I missed five things from CA: fresh salmon, redwood forests, museums and art galleries, ethnic restaurants and the isolated, remote beaches of the far north of the…
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Growing the Nursery: New Greenhouse Video
Growth: for me, in plants, in diversification of offerings. The priority project for this year was to convert the potting shed to a small propagation greenhouse. And with the assistance of my good friend Donna this project is completed. Please join me in a little tour of the new shed with a new video on the…
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Creating a Refuge in the Wind: A Video Resume
It is very rare that a client or colleague asks about my background…who am I, what do I do, how have I done it? Why should you trust my recommendations or pay me for them without knowing the work I have put into being able to help you. Here is a brief – somewhat conventional…
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Garden & Landscape Consults
Garden & Landscape Consults: Meeting with clients to experience their gardens, yards, landscape, acreage, ideas and challenges is always a great experience for me. One hour consults generally turn into one and a half hour. Now is the time to walk through the future of your landscape: a place to meditate, a place to play, a…
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The Permaculture Path: One Day Course to Introduce Permaculture to Central Wyoming
So much of the permaculture information found on the Internet seems like it does not apply to the Great Ancient Ocean bottom we live in here in Central Wyoming. Truthfully the principles apply on every scale, in all environments. For details on the first in the series of one-day courses visit https://m.facebook.com/Tara-Farm-and-Nursery-206362586064658/?refid=52 Balance, observation, small…
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Spring Internship 2016: Are you focused, peaceful, passionate, earthy? Do you live in the Northern Rockies?
Permaculture / Plant Nursery Internship May thru August 2016 Location: Tara Farm and Nursery, Casper WY Tara Farm and Nursery is a small Owner/Operator practice focusing on the development of plants and landscape installations which are appropriate to high, dry steppe and sagebrush environments (“Basin and Range”), and which support the principles of permaculture. These principles…
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When asked to reflect (briefly) on global warming…
“So what?” Travis snorted quietly. “Well, what about the foxes that’ll need those mice to survive? For want of ten mice, a fox dies. For want of ten foxes a lion starves. For want of a lion, all manner of insects, vultures, infinite billions of life forms are thrown into chaos and destruction. Eventually it…
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