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When there is no soil, trees still grow. They also grow on an almost vertical rock face, and in a dry valley, at that. Puddin’head Mountain, Keremeos What you can’t do with […]
When is a robin not a robin? Well… … when is a stone not a stone? Colour is not random. The world is not built around metaphor. There is […]
Isn’t it… … about time … … that the growing of … … wine grapes … … and the concept of terroir… … be separated … …completely and forever?
All day, I pruned fruit trees under this cliff. Above Keremeos The faces appear on the edge of dark, with only fifteen minutes of light left. There sure are a lot of […]
Very slowly, and with great drama and beauty, the atmosphere breaks bedrock to bits. Why are we not farming the air? It is doing this everywhere, with a bit of help from […]
Birds do. Here’s a clutch of haws that have used frost and sun to break their acids down into sugars. This is the time of year that birds will come for them […]
The bunches grass bunches up. With the help of snow, it mounds. We could call it mound grass. We could call it a village. Note the vole highway in the lower centre […]
The sun came up last Wednesday. Isn’t that great! Looking west, away from it, was great fun. But not so much fun as looking east. Look at it projecting itself on ice […]
This is the closing of a series on mitigating climate change through local action. The Earth is very responsive. We can trust that. This estuary on Vernon Creek, for example, with its […]
In the last couple of posts, I talked about the industrial, environmental and social costs of growing fruit in the Okanagan Valley. You can have a peek in this post: The True Costs […]
