It’s coming along, eh. This corn salad seeded itself in July and came up in August. It ought to be ready in a couple weeks, just in time for a feast. But, […]
Christmas Salad
It’s Still Harvest Time
We’ve had 25 centimetres of snow. We’ve had 9 Below Celsius. No-one around this place is particularly worried. It’s harvest time! Could this evergreen character and lasting tenderness be why sage was […]
What is a Tomato Worth? You Might as Well Ask What is a Person Worth.
Nothing? Or maybe $2.54 each down at Save-On Foods? It’s not labour that makes the price. A friend of mine, a Mexican temporary worker, works his summers here in Canada because in […]
A Broken Culture Has Started Flogging Candy in the Okanagan Now
Land was taken from the Okanagan Indian Band to start a cattle industry in the 1860s, to generate a cash economy to support the administration of the colony of British Columbia and […]
Big Crop Coming
Siya? is calling. Time to start practicing your messages of thanks by going out and saying hello.
Traveller at the Core of the Sun
Fare well, voyagers! What a day for space travel!
Never Trust Electronic Communication
So, I phoned ahead, right, and asked for a strip of land to be tilled for my baby trees. What I didn’t know was that there was a 3/4″-thick piece of rebar […]
When Terroir is Terror
Isn’t it… … about time … … that the growing of … … wine grapes … … and the concept of terroir… … be separated … …completely and forever?
Sixty Things We Can Do to Help the Earth Right Now, Right Here
This is the second part of the answer to a question of how adopting Indigenous land use protocols can help the Earth. The first is here: The Price of De-Indigenizing the Land. […]
The Price of De-Indigenizing the Land
While talking about Cascadia the other night, I was asked: how can accepting Indigenous principles of land use… Earth Feeding Wasp …possibly help a world of 8 billion people, all hungry and […]
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