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 
I’m intrigued. What do you mean by walk?
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Let’s say you plant one 1 foot away from a garden wall and 20 feet away from a Bramley’s Seedling apple tree. The onion grows, it forms a head about 12” off the ground, which is heavy, and falls. It roots. Now you have two plants, one at 1 foot, and one at 2 feet. What’s more, the 2 footer probably had a secondary head another 6” up, so, really, three plants, at 1 foot, 2 feet and 2.5 feet. Next year, they do it all over again. Now you are out there at 4 feet. Not too long and the darling has stepped along in this way and is 10 yet from the Bramley, which is close enough, cuz those things need their space. Of course, this is not a linear walker. It kind of staggers like a bee, so, really, magic, and that’s that.
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That’s awesome. I assume they’re not edible.
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They are. The earliest spring onions.
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They sound amazing. I’ll see if I can find some to plant in the UK.
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https://treeonions.com/buy-tree-onions-uk
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Pretty plant.
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It has a sense of humour, too.
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