Here’s the old story: Indigenous peoples lived for thousands of years in the West, surviving by hunting and gathering, often in abject poverty, until settlers came from the United States, Canada, and […]
Making the Future
Green Zebra Tomato Juice Celebration!
Here is a joyous interlude, to fulfill a promise … Green Zebra Juice And a green zebra, too. So, the yellow tomato juice tasted like the sun, and I wondered if this […]
Curiosity and Tomatoes
The problem is curiosity, way back in the spring … The Day’s Harvest Now that it is fall, the solution is curiosity, too… Yellow Tomato Juice Waiting for a Friend Beautiful, huh! […]
Serendipity
The peach comes from China, and got out on the Silk Road to the Persians, who gave it to the Romans, who called it the Persian Apple (which got shortened to Peach, […]
Big Game Hunting
Ah, the wild cherry trees that sprout up like weeds on the edge of the crop lands. Here’s a red-tailed hawk showing what those things are for. Red Tailed Hawk in His […]
There is No Such Thing as Wilderness (Unless We Make it So)
In a land that was heavily populated and culturally farmed for 6000 years, only in the last 160 years, the time of European, American and Canadian colonization, has there been wild life. […]
Cheating Weeds Out of their Day in the Sun
There is a new invader in the Okanagan and the Okanogan, our two homelands that are one. It is rush skeleton weed, and it has the potential to wreck stuff. Stuff like balers and […]
Sprouting a Future Without Water
This beautiful valley is running out of water. There are many culprits, and not all of them the usual suspects. Today, I’d like to talk about one small solution, which entails using […]
For the Love of Weeds
There is a group of plants that produce food, require little or no irrigation, little care, and are open to be shared by human and animal grazers. They are called weeds. They […]
Green Zebra!
Green zebra tomatoes are my friends. They taste like a cucumber-tomato salad, no cucumbers necessary. Slice them up on a plate and they look like cucumbers. Beautiful. Green Zebra Tomatoes Getting Ready […]
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