The Okanagan Valley markets summer. Summer is an ancient European idea that has a lot of currency in Canada, where there’s a lot of winter, and very little in Guatemala, where there’s […]
Celebrating the Apricot
Today, a moment of joy. Remember the apricots of a year ago? Tilton Apricots, Lower Keremeos, Similkameen Valley The great preserving cot of the West. And remember the ones of this August, […]
Haig-Brown and the Energy of the Universe
What if these yellow asparagus ferns in the fall were not wild? What if there were no wilderness? That’s no far-fetched, really. In Nu-chal-nuth culture, on the long beaches and rocky islets […]
The Green Green Grapes of Home
Last week, I was speaking about the potential of the various languages within English for creating a new language for science. I think there’s something I should have explained, so let me […]
Fooling Around With the Seasons or Plant Sex 101
It’s October 20th… that’s Autumn, right? Best to ask the sumacs. They know. Here are the males, in their finery of feathers. And the females just down the road. Not just plumage, […]
We do Not Have a Food Problem
We do not have a food problem. My Magic Tomato and Her New Icelandic Friends We don’t even have a production problem. Black Krim Tomatoes Mmmmm. We don’t even have a farming problem. U-Pick […]
Praying Mantis and Her Mysterious Companion
Look who I found in the asters! Praying Mantis, Okanagan Falls These are colour markings I haven’t seen before. Pretty stunning, eh. The Brown Body, the Yellow Head, the Green Eyes, What […]
Words, Humans, Earth: the Relationship Renewed
Let’s open with poetry today, and then stand firmly in science. First, the earth turns towards the sun … (Trumpets tooting … can you hear them?) … and the starlings hold the […]
These Are the People
Sometimes a man just has to say what is in his heart. I have been writing about the creator of environmental consciousness in the settler culture of British Columbia, on the North […]
Who are the People
The people belong to the commons, which is the land. This old idea comes to Canada from England. The English got it from the Norse. Originally, it was a concept called the […]
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