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Mountain Jewel
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Center for Earth Connection: a place to remember sacred connection through permaculture, homesteading, herbalism, & natural building
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2017-12-09 02:07
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mountainjewel
gardening
2020-07-22 17:37
Growing Yardlong Beans: Easy Gardening Success
When it comes to beans, there are so many varieties it will make your head spin. Bush, pole, spotted, striped, green, red, yellow, black, white, and variations in between. This year we tried a bean known
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mountainjewel
homesteading
2020-05-01 20:11
Building a Duck Coop for (Basically) Free
Over the last few years we have sought to grow, hunt and forage as much of our diet as possible. While greens, deer meat, small game, root crops, mushrooms, herbs, and other vegetables are abundant, we
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mountainjewel
homesteading
2020-04-29 14:11
Seeding the Permaculture Nursery at Mountain Jewel
This year at Mountain Jewel we have been busy planting seeds for the future. Along with various vegetative propagation techniques, we began to establish trees from seed on the land. Using air prune beds
mountainjewel
gardening
2020-03-23 01:24
Hello from Mountain Jewel
Greetings Hive! We've been following the news and are very excited about the new community buzzing over here. In our opinions, it is a much needed break from a chain around the neck that was Steemit Inc
mountainjewel
gardening
2020-01-03 22:20
Dancing with Winter's Death
Adult Soldier Fly resting at the edge of the composting toilet after laying her eggs. It used to be I only dwelled in fields of wildflowers at the peak of summertime, stopping by the garden on the way
mountainjewel
gardening
2019-11-16 03:05
Ancient Nuts Underground
Imagine our ancient hominin ancestor, Paranthropus boisei, foraging for food over 1.5 million years ago in East Africa. With 5-6 hours a day allocated to food acquisition, a sweet and fatty nutrient dense
mountainjewel
homesteading
2019-11-11 00:15
Stone Cooking Pits and Hide Tanning: Primitive Skills Inspiration
Welcome to the time of the woodstove. Stacking wood, cold mornings, copious amounts of tea, of winter dreaming. Welcome to book after book, abundant rest after another busy year, seeds, nuts, deer hunting
mountainjewel
homesteading
2019-10-06 22:45
Building the Walls of the Slip Straw Sauna
Slip straw is a technique that we've come to love over the years. It's a great blend of natural building with conventional stud framing. Also known as light clay straw, slip straw is as simple as the name
mountainjewel
ecotrain
2019-10-01 01:20
Teaching Natural Building in the Ozarks
Natural building is people's building. Just watch this singing Tibetan group building a rammed earth house if you don't believe me: If I could pin a catch phrase for our passion for natural building, it
mountainjewel
homesteading
2019-09-26 00:25
For the Love of Clay Plaster: Building a Sauna
In Finnish tradition, when one first moves to the land they build a sauna that they can use and live in the first year while getting their feet on the ground. It serves the dual purpose of providing a
mountainjewel
dtube
2019-09-09 21:07
Selected Pawpaw Cultivars Will Blow Your Mind!
We’ve come to know and love the North American indigenous fruit, the wild Pawpaw, Asimina triloba. From it’s pleasing foliage, to maroon flowers and later to unbelievable sweet & plump fruit, it offers
mountainjewel
dtube
2019-08-30 23:51
Leeks: Self Propagating Alliums In the Permaculture Garden
We love leeks! Not only are they delicious, the Mother plant produces numerous babies each year which keep the plant going season to season. ▶️ DTube ▶️ YouTube
mountainjewel
homesteading
2019-08-20 15:24
What do you think will save us, if anything? (in terms of climate action)
My facebook acquaintance Jack posed the following questions on his feed and I really appreciate the ways Jack digs deep and asks the hard questions surrounding climate change. Because the discourse, in
mountainjewel
homesteading
2019-08-15 12:29
Lending a Hand with Lime Plaster on Straw Bale
Earlier this week we traveled to friends’ house to do a “blitz” to finish the scratch coat of lime plaster inside their straw bale home. We know well how much a little boost like this can help morale and
mountainjewel
ecotrain
2019-08-11 18:25
Are we waiting to appreciate the now?
The fact that so many of us are postponing our satisfaction, happiness, contentment or joy is heartbreaking. We are waiting for the right conditions to arise before we can settle into the moment and know
mountainjewel
blog
2019-08-05 23:51
Prayers are not enough - Re: the Acceleration of Violent White Nationalism in the United States
While thoughts are prayers are undoubtedly good things to add to any situation, especially a travesty such as the one in El Paso and then followed up at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California, they are
mountainjewel
gardening
2019-08-03 08:45
Season of Harvests
Not sure how this double posted from my blog! Enjoy the tomato twice over! As we transition into late summer, I can feel fall in the air. Through the cooler mornings and evenings, the slower growth of
mountainjewel
gardening
2019-08-02 16:35
Season of Harvests
As we transition into late summer, I can feel fall in the air. Through the cooler mornings and evenings, the slower growth of the grass and plants and by so many things going to seed. We are in the seed
mountainjewel
dtube
2019-07-22 23:36
3 Year Old Ozark Food Forest & Permaculture Gardens
Come with us as we tour the summer gardens on our Ozark Permaculture homestead. We are in our 4th summer and focus on mainly perennial agriculture with a side of seed-saving annual beauty. See how abundant
mountainjewel
homesteading
2019-07-21 23:36
Walls Up~ Starting to Look Like a House!
This morning some good friends came over at 7am to help put frames up! We are so blessed with some good community! Ini and I have been working hard in the background building frames, but we can't put them
