It’s never too early to let the shorter days lead one into getting ready for Yule, and this is the time for red cabbage, pickled. My German ancestors did weird things with […]
Red Cabbage For Christmas
Harold Rhenisch
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The Story So Far
Two things for you today: a cool monolith from the Peshastin Pinnacles, and the complete pdf version of my summary of my year wandering in the grass, which I presented to the […]
Homeless in Vernon
How could this happen? Homeless in Vernon How could this happen, in between a highway bypass, a rail line, and a marsh? Really? Not even under the sheltering limbs of the elm […]
You Want to Know What Cold Looks Like?
It looks like this! Brrrr! This is why heat-loving foreign plants like tomatoes can be supplemented in this landscape by ones that like the cold and think the heat is bad news, […]
All of a Sudden, Winter
One minute, the sun is shining and a guy is bringing in the last of the tomatoes… … and in awe, a bit, as to how the spring soil he made out […]
Ogopogo From the Air, and a Story for You
Here’s the Ogopogo, seen from the air just after Thanksgiving … Mid-Okanagan Lake, with Ogopogo Photo: Anassa Rhenisch. Thanks for giving, Anassa! For the full story of this corner of the lake, why not […]
Glorious Sumac
Autumn. In the Okanagan Okanogan, it would be nothing without sumac. In the East, the maple trees and sumacs turn red and the sun burns on the face of the earth. We […]
Mariposa Lily: an Indigenous Food Crop Reborn
In open agriculture, indigenous crops take their rightful place as efficient water farmers on dry hillsides. One of the most beautiful of these crops is the mariposa lily. In most parts of […]
Water Farming
Yesterday, I introduced the concept of Open Agriculture: a form of agriculture that works with the forms and processes of the land and unites very different settler and indigenous forms of cultivation. Today, […]
Open Agriculture, Day 1
Welcome to the idea of Open Agriculture, farming for the future made in cooperation with the planet. I have been collecting seeds and making notes about new crops for the coming drought […]
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