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Mountain Jewel

@mountainjewel

Center for Earth Connection: a place to remember sacred connection through permaculture, homesteading, herbalism, & natural building

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Mountain Jewel
@mountainjewel Jul 22, 2020, 5:37 PM UTC

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 bea…

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Mountain Jewel
@mountainjewel May 1, 2020, 8:11 PM UTC

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,…

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Mountain Jewel
@mountainjewel Apr 29, 2020, 2:11 PM UTC

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 b…

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Mountain Jewel
@mountainjewel Mar 23, 2020, 1:24 AM UTC

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 Ste…

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Mountain Jewel
@mountainjewel Jan 3, 2020, 10:20 PM UTC

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 wa…

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Mountain Jewel
@mountainjewel Nov 16, 2019, 3:05 AM UTC

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…

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Mountain Jewel
@mountainjewel Nov 11, 2019, 12:15 AM UTC

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 hu…

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Mountain Jewel
@mountainjewel Oct 6, 2019, 10:45 PM UTC

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…

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@mountainjewel Oct 1, 2019, 1:20 AM UTC

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,…

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Mountain Jewel
@mountainjewel Sep 26, 2019, 12:25 AM UTC

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…

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