This is a fairly typical bit of vineyard in Germany’s Mosel Valley. Yes, grapes root in this stuff. It’s a good thing there’s lots of rain and it doesn’t get ridiculously cold. […]
Water From Rock
Landscaping with Wool
Yes, it’s possible to knit a landscape. Here’s how. The trick is, you don’t start with wool. It’s very sneaky, this wool thing. First, you look around, see what kind of raw […]
Knitting New Leaves for Old Trees
Here’s a way to get close to your apple trees … Can a Tree Have Too Many Leaves? Can a child not speak with its hands? What else do we have but […]
Wine, War, and Peace
So, the Romans went north and, well built hilltop forts, actually. And planted grapes, from Egypt, and then … well, you know, they married the local girls and never left. Welcome to […]
Flower Trees
In Germany and Switzerland, many garden walls are built quickly out of gravel dropped into wire cages. It’s quick, it looks better than military grade concrete, and it gets rid of rocks […]
Plant Slaves
There’s nothing like using life forms as decoration. It just brings nature close, mmm! The logic is astonishingly clever, too: functional architecture leads to the sense that one is living in an […]
Life Without Oil
There was a time in the world in which technology and the work of the planet were intimately related. It was hardly romantic, but it has come to be known that way, […]
Tools for a New World
Tools are fun, and always handy to have around, like this: One Retired Okanagan Fruit Farmer Hangs a Hammer Wherever He Thinks He Might Need One It’s like having ten hands! Tools […]
A War Against Trees
Here’s what trees are doing, when left to their own devices… Sproing Actually, this is what water is doing. As water evaporates from leaves folded all winter inside the egg cases of […]
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