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The Paradise Apple, Modern Farming and the Apple of the Celts
The Secret of Apple Pie
The Garden and the University
How People Learned to Stay Still: a Story Old and New
Indigenous Trees and Settler Trees
The Birth of Language on Mara Lake
Ponderosa Pine: The Tree at the Heart of a People
Butterflies and Meadowlarks on a Cold Spring Day
Maps Written on the Land
My Entry for the Most Beautiful Tomato in the World

The Lost Terbasket Ranch Orchard is in the News

By Harold Rhenisch on May 9, 2022 • ( 3 Comments )

Our project to celebrate the resilience of the Sməlqmíx through friendship and an amazing apricot tree is celebrated in an article by Aaron Hemens in Indigenews. Here is elder and language keeper […]

New Apricots from an Old Tree

By Harold Rhenisch on May 6, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

Remember when Paul Terbasket’s apricot tree had a visitor? Now there is new fruit! Happy day!

Gravity and Anti-Gravity Hard at It

By Harold Rhenisch on May 2, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Here’s some gravity at work. Some snow melt strikes a rock face and tears soil down with it. This is gravity working in open, unconstricted space. Note as well the salts on […]

Two Ways to Approach a Flower: Outing Goethe and Heidegger One Bloom at a Time

By Harold Rhenisch on April 30, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

It is possible to talk to a flower. Like this: With nothing before you but a flower, you can deduce that a flower is a series of specialized leaves, opening not just […]

I Have a Quince to Give Away. Want one?

By Harold Rhenisch on April 29, 2022 • ( 6 Comments )

Want one? A rufuous hummingbird visited this one today, a few times. What a beaut he was.]. This could be your future, too! With thorns, yes, but with lumpy fruits and exquisite […]

Natural Economy

By Harold Rhenisch on April 28, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Here’s a pair of poplar flower brackets, showing us the origins of economy. If you look at the buds, you can see they come in groups of one, all dark and pointed, […]

Siyaʔ at Work

By Harold Rhenisch on April 27, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Look at the great food chief bursting in fountains out of the Earth. And remember, it does not all happen right now. This is just a stage. Last year̓’s fruit has brought […]

Of Kant and the Environment

By Harold Rhenisch on April 25, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

On March 29, 1781, the philosopher Immanuel Kant sat at his writing desk in Königsberg, East Prussia, and opened his new book, A Critique of Pure Reason. Spring clouds were building over […]

When is a Rose Not a Rose?

By Harold Rhenisch on April 23, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Why, when it is a rose window. Count the petals. And again: In the second window, the bricked-in one, the one just above, the petals form a cross, but in the top […]

Time for Apricots, Bees and Spiders

By Harold Rhenisch on April 21, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

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I am working at rebuilding human relationships to the earth, growing the global from the local and developing new environmental technologies out of close observation of the land. The land is the watershed and run of the Okanagan River in the North American West, and the Chilcotin and Columbia volcanic plateaus and basins that surround it. It is the goal of this blog to build the future now and to do it through attention to art, earth, science and beauty, so that there is, actually, a future for our children and a path for them to feel out their way to the earth should they ever find themselves in the dark. The project will lead to two book manuscripts in the summer of 2013, one on the salmon of the Okanagan River, the last major run on the Columbia system, and the other on the connection between the Manhattan Project and the political and industrial face of Eastern Washington and Southern British Columbia. They will do so within the broader context of land-based technologies, in forms that are simultaneously art and science. In this land without borders, there is no international line at the 49th parallel, cutting our country in two, and no imagined wall between settler and indigenous cultures. We are all walking together. We are all the land speaking.
  • The Paradise Apple, Modern Farming and the Apple of the Celts
  • The Secret of Apple Pie
  • The Garden and the University
  • How People Learned to Stay Still: a Story Old and New
  • Indigenous Trees and Settler Trees
  • The Birth of Language on Mara Lake
  • Ponderosa Pine: The Tree at the Heart of a People
  • Butterflies and Meadowlarks on a Cold Spring Day
  • Maps Written on the Land
  • My Entry for the Most Beautiful Tomato in the World

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