Here’s a thing about living in the intersection of climactic zones: the seasons are wrong. For instance, because this area of North America has been colonized by Britain, Canada, and the United […]
Winter in July
Free Energy and Free Carbon
When’s the last time someone said to you, “Hey, free gas at the pumps today?” Chinese Elm Meets the Power Line Crew This is all the wood that no one in the […]
Green Wine
A wine starts long before it hits the chemist’s test tube. In fact, it starts out something like this … Baco Noir Grapes in the Okanagan At this early stage of their […]
Water From Rock
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. […]
Public and Private
In a grassland, the wind never stops blowing. Either it’s a dry wind falling off the mountains after dropping its ocean water on the other side, or it’s a valley wind scurried […]
The Dirt About Dirt
Do you know what pizza sauce looks like in its embryo phase? Here’s a rare sighting… Ten Thousand Year Old Post Glacial Lake Bottom Readied for Tomato Seedlings Soon black plastic sheeting […]
Soil Atmosphere in Crisis
For thousands of years, farmers have been trying to keep the living earth at bay by stripping all plant life from their fields. Because of evaporation issues around the destruction of organic […]
Powering Your iPhone With The Big Bang
The motions of matter and energy at the beginning of the universe haven’t finished their movements yet, even here 13.5 billion years away. They blow by, just outside my door, and yours. […]
Soil Atmosphere and Eternity
Plants are creatures of light. They live in the air, eat light photons, and give off oxygen, yet strangely the dimmer the light they’re nibbling on the more efficient their photosynthesis becomes. […]
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