I bought the shovel on the left in 1981. It didn’t have a lot of a point then. I’ve been digging with it for 40 years now. By the rate of wear […]
100 Years of Digging in the Earth
Harold Rhenisch
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Keepers of the Earth
Western toad keeps the Earth for us… …that we keep for her. That’s how it’s done.
What Plants (and Rocks) Know
Mustard knows you can fill space with lines. No leaves needed. Nothing grows through this tangle. What you lose in leaf surface, you gain in airflow, which prevents some of the rusts […]
Beyond Truth and Reconciliation
Let’s put this simply. It’s about land and water. And about the life force interwoven with them. And how people interweave with that. Interweaving is not just about commercial potential. Here’s my […]
Truth and Reconciliation and Humility
Three years ago, I sat with a Secwepemc elder and a couple young Secwepemc men near Yellow Pond below, in Stswecem’c Xgat’tem territory. We talked about a lot of things, including traditional land […]
Orchard Lies and Out of Touch Journalists and Your Lunch
This is a story about truth and reconciliation. The headline says it all. Many Okanagan Apple Farmers Are Facing This Year’s Harvest Short Handed, You know, I remember a time, long before […]
Mountains and Clouds and Fish Together
Look what happens to a cloud as it goes over Jesmond Peak in the Marble Mountains and has the Plateau in front of it for the first time. It makes a reverse […]
Bye-Bye Fire
The correct management of forests is to fill them with water and then to eat the trees. Well, actually the bark of the trees. The wood is used to hold the water […]
It is Time to Go Home
The sandhill cranes are flying south from the Beaufort Sea, as they have for 125,000,000 years. One family at a time. When the leader lags, the group is soon a ball, and […]
Sustainable Harvest
Here are some Spartans I helped Dad plant in 1965. And some Flemish Beauties, planted c. 1950, that I started picking 50 years ago. Plant once, harvest 100 times. That’s the sustainable […]
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