I have worked here since 2011 telling stories of the Earth as preparation for a history of the Intermontane Grasslands of Central Cascadia and the rainswept coast that keeps them windy and dry. Now I am presenting this history, step by step, as I have learned it, often from the land itself. The history of this region includes the Canadian colonial space “The Okanagan Valley”, which lies over the land I live in above Canim Bay. The story stretches deep into the American West, into the US Civil War, the War of 1812, and the Louisiana Purchase, as well into the history of the Columbia District of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In all, the story spans the Chilcotin and Columbia volcanic plateaus and the basins that surround them. In this vast watershed lie homelands as old as 13,200 years (Sequim) and 16,200 years (Salmon River.) That’s how far we are walking together here, who are all the land speaking.
Okanagan Okanogan 
It was the red cabbages here, and all the kale, and raspberry and rose leaves. (Bear broke into the garden while we were away and the resident doe found the gap in the fence…) I’m actually thinking that kale-fed venison would taste quite good…
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I’m lucky I keep my kale behind a fence!
They don’t like my broccoli, though.
Yes, red cabbage are a favourite. I liken those to those moulded jellies that were all the rage at potlucks in the 60s. Mmmmmm.
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Our vegetable garden is well-fenced too but a bear can destroy almost any kind of wire, even electric, if he or she is hungry enough or curious enough…
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My fence would be no match for a bear. Or robins. They get their share.
But they’re very endearing about it.
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