Many seeds disperse by riding the wind. Spiders, too. Here’s one of my neighbours that has a different way of moving through the currents of the world. Welcome to yellow dock. It’s […]
The Answer is Blowing in the Sun
Be Like the Chickadees
Share. Live from the land. Be joyous. Share that, too. Chickadees Feeding in January Today’s three course menu: russian thistle seeds, red root pigweed seeds, & sagebrush seeds, too
Go, Ogopogo, And Don’t Come Back No More!
There is a legend from the time when the British Empire owned this corner of North America, that says that the local people, the Syilx, claimed there was a monster in the […]
What are Weeds For?
This: Russian Thistle is Preferred Above All If native species were replanted, there would be different birds. Simple. Clear.
Environmentally Friendly Rototiller
Yes, no more do you have to zip on down to the gas pump to fuel up your tiller with refined tar sand goo. No more do you have to sit in […]
Farms For All
Welcome to purslane, a nutritious vegetable used extensively in Middle Eastern cooking, so native to the region that it sprouts up in the cracks of sidewalks and is harvested from there … […]
Weevils Among the Flowers
‘Tis the season for flowers to go a-blooming. Dandelion after Yesterday’s Four Inches of Snow Went Away Oh, who’s that hiding behind the flower, being all shy, like? When we were all […]
Earth Bucks: A New Economic Model
Even in dry country, water falls from the sky. Along the way, it imitates gophers. Yes, gophers. Here’s what the gophers are up to: Sorting Rock! It’s the season for moving out […]
The Starlings are Restless
Ah, Autumn, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…That’s what the poet said. Hardly! A Group of Starlings Gather in a Vertical Home Sewage Dissipation Apparatus Keats was right, there’s a lot of […]
Ogopogo From the Air, and a Story for You
Here’s the Ogopogo, seen from the air just after Thanksgiving … Mid-Okanagan Lake, with Ogopogo Photo: Anassa Rhenisch. Thanks for giving, Anassa! For the full story of this corner of the lake, why not […]
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