Here’s how to grow tomatoes using plastic and hydroponic fertilizer. After harvest, this plastic goes to the landfill. Why, you may ask? To get a jump on the season, without having to […]
How to Ensure a Sustainable Food Supply
Beyond Individual Identity
There are several ways to do write on rock. You can chisel into the rock with another rock: Petroglyph, Columbia Hills State Park You can write on the rock. She Who Watches, […]
Too Many Horses
The Yakama people have been living with horses for hundreds of years. In all that time, horses living wild on their land have been a part of their wealth. When settler culture […]
The Trail to Nowhere
It started as a trail to the promised land. Here at the Whitman Mission in Walla Walla, in Oregon Territory (now in the State of Washington), it has led to a hill of […]
Blood of the Earth
I live in the country of the Columbia River, above the lake that spills into one of its tributaries, the Okanogan River. In this country, there are many rivers like the Okanagan, such […]
The Power of Rock
Life is a great force on this planet, but so is rock. Just look at this one!The interplay of this kind of steadiness and resistance within the web of life can be most […]
Masked Hunter
The bug from my shed has a name and a story. It’s a masked hunter. It picks up dust bunnies and carries them around. No lie. Read about it here. Thanks to all […]
Help! What Is This Insect??????
It’s flat, it’s hairy, it’s about a centimetre long. It’s not very fast. I saw one three years ago. It died. I wish this one would leave my tarp and go somewhere […]
Like Sky Like Earth
The energy and pressure effects that create these clouds in the depressurized and repressurized zone west of the coastal arc volcanoes of the North Eastern Pacific create in their image grasslands that […]
Fun With Pollen
Ah, the pollen of May. You can cover yourself with it and then launch yourself into open space … Wild Bee Leaving Its Salsify Feast (Click to see her golden mask.) You […]
Okanagan Okanogan 