The Refuge Permaculture Center

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Tag: recipe

  • 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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  • 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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  • Squashland… where pollen feeds the workers…

    And the fall approaches… the pollinators and I are both preparing for winter. The Squash plants are buzzing, trembling with bee wings. This year will include some Yellow Crooked Neck Squash, a Yellow Winter Squash hybrid (seeds from last year) and firm, large zucchini. I love the hybrid. Easy to carve out and the skin

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  • Que Tan Verde! Anaheim Peppers

    Two tiny Anaheim pepper plants…. I planted them in an empty mineral lick tub with a mix of native soil and potting soil. The soil I kept just damp, not wet. The pollinators had no problem finding the small white flowers inside the potting shed. The shed allowed me to control how much rain, and

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