I showed you a couple days ago how Oregon grape uses fine leaf points to dissipate heat, creating cold points which then attract frost, which creates heat when it freezes, more heat […]
Frost on the Breath
The Food Chief Calls
The first glimpse of summer’s berries is here. Siyaʔ, the Food Chief, is awake. She yawned a bit four days ago. Right here: And now, she’s stretching out into the sun. This […]
Birds Lost. Plants in Crisis. Help.
Scientific American reports that with the shift of animal habitat due to climate change, 60% of plants are stranded without the ability to move, because they rely on animals to move their […]
Rebuilding the Grasslands 5: Deer, Coyotes and Fire
Over the previous 4 days, I have shown you how some changes to civic land-use legislation can help rebuild the grasslands around our houses, while protecting us from climate change in the […]
Rebuilding Sustainability 4: The Sagebrush Catalyst
With a few changes in environmental legislation in the current weed desert in which we plant houses in the catastrophically failing Okanagan grasslands, we can live in a land of plenty instead […]
Building the Land With Flowers. Really.
Welcome to the 21st century! In this century, we’ve finally learned that a grassland is nothing without flowers. Here’s why: That’s right, bees, 500 kinds of wild bees and wasps that live […]
New Land Use Regulations for Okanagan Grassland Communities
Communities include grass and flowers, animals, insects, birds, trees, water, gravity, people, sun, rock, dust, soil and wind. Each contributes to maintaining a community balance. ANew communities built in the grasslands need […]
Land Use Regulations, Part 1: How Things Went Wrong
In the environment of the Intermontane Grasslands, in which more and more natural, diverse ecological space is being replaced by simple environments, one could make a strong argument that regulations have actually […]
The Rivers of the Sun
What makes a plant a plant is not its growth. It’s not that it’s a “growing” thing. Neither is it that it spreads. Branching is popular, but not all plants branch. Similarly, […]
Skating Day on Okanagan Lake!
Some winters, Canim Bay freezes. This is one of those winters. A desire for social distance has increased the number of skating rinks, though. Everyone together apart!
Okanagan Okanogan 