Some landscapes are made by wind. Not these ones in the Chilcotin Basalt, inland from the glacially-carved volcanic arc of the Coast Mountains. Big Bar Eskers This is where the glaciers melted […]
Living Water on the Chilcotin Plateau
Living in the Sun
Look at how the water bends around the feet of these water striders. It’s like walking on an electrical force field. We call it “reflections on a lake”, but this is the […]
Solar Power and Social Power
Solar power looks like this … Hydroelectric power looks like this … Magpie Hill, Bella Vista Road, Vernon Got that? Life looks like this … Harvesting a Solar Conversion Machine Death looks […]
25 Herbs and Spices for the Okanagan Kitchen
As the task lies before us of building a sustainable local food culture, let’s make that food taste as good as we can. Herbs and spices are high value crops that can […]
New Technology: Solar Powered Water Pumping
So much technology remodels natural processes. Current water use regimes pour water on the surface of the soil and watch it sink in. Natural processes also bring water to the surface. The […]
10 More New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan (And an Extra One for Fun)
Currently water is collected in the Okanagan by three methods. The first is to turn high country lakes and streams into reservoirs, which are then piped down into the valleys, to provide […]
10 New Agricultural Locations in the Suburban Okanagan
British Columbia, the province of Canada that claims the Okanagan as its own territory, is a jurisdiction in which some 94% of land is owned by the government, in trust for the […]
Rain Craters and Rain Fossils
It rained a couple inches in the June monsoons, it drained away, and it rained a little more on the muddied post-glacial lakebed silt. Rain Craters The Moon and Mars only get […]
New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan
As we move to reclaim natural water processes in the valley grasslands of the Okanagan, we will need new water collection technologies. The systems we have now (upland lakes turned into reservoirs, […]
The Ethics of Water in the Okanagan
For the last week, I’ve been displaying new crops for the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia and the Okanogan Valley in Washington. These crops will allow food production to continue in the […]
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