Not only is a Spigold big… … but it is very late, which means it ripens when it is cool and so is a far better keeper than its sister, the Jonagold. […]
A Giant Apple
Harold Rhenisch
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Night, Night, Sweet Ladies!
See you outside again in May! Brand new shelves. For scale, the big cubicle is four feet wide and five feet tall. The top pot on the left weighs around 90 pounds. […]
A Flock of Grass
“The heads of grass”, we say, but is it so? A head is a height, a high point, so “head” is not so bad. Following this logic, a human “head” is a […]
The Snow Buckwheat Game
Look how we got things wrong with our cool scientific thinking. Great thinking, but still, look how we got things wrong. What I mean is, scientific thinking has allowed for close study […]
Of Memory and Resilience
Tbese webs are woven, and then rebuilt again and again after being torn by prey. They are then built on the old pattern, and become thick. This is what memory looks like, […]
Settler Culture? I Dunno. Ask Dickens.
I have a few questions. Why is Dickens (for example) studied in literature class at our local university, but not saskatoon leaves like this in the fall? Is this not writing? Is […]
A Bountiful Filbert Harvest
The filberts are here! This is after I washed them. Can you spot the one with the mouse hole in it? The mice got 10%. The rest, rescued from the lilac, the […]
Breathing the Sun
There is hardly a difference between Earth and sky. … is scarcely different from water cut by sky. Where the hillside is slowed by stones… … and snow buckwheat… Are these not […]
Surfing in the Sky
These days with layers of air sliding over each other … …are great ones for watching the clouds tell stories. Isn’t that a dog surfing, there?
The Big Agricultural Lie
If you ever needed proof that agricultural fences in the Okanagan, which are erected to keep out the deer, aren’t erected for that reason at all, this is it.
