The Refuge Permaculture Center

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Tag: comfort food

  • Bean Harvest Sutra Three: The Kitchen Stove

    1. Take a minute to remember someone long ago who made the whole house, any house, smell like home. This was done with simple, real, fresh cooking. I see my Grandma Church basting the Thanksgiving turkey. But we will be stuffing squash.2. Plan for a whole day of cooking. Plan the music or podcast or

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  • Bean Harvest Sutra Two: Drying

    Bean Harvest Sutra Two: Drying Winter Food1. A light, gentle squeeze of the dry, pale yellow pods in the garden will create a quiet crackling sound. Not too hard..2. Cut shrub leaving roots in the soil. (See Bean Harvest Sutra One)3. Loop cotton or hemp string around the bottom of a bundle of cut shrubs.4.

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  • Pumpkin Spice Right Where It Belongs

    Fall light in the afternoon. Cooling nights, warm afternoon. But the leaves are hardly showing their color. I had pumpkin left from last year. Sweetie Pie variety. And this Alpen glow afternoon light finally got to me. Pumpkin Custard. I’m completely over all the “pumpkin spice”  commercials: candles, perfumes, coffee and ice cream flavoring. The

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