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. […]
Water From Rock
Kokanee in Peril
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has just released a story about the decline of the Kokanee fishery in the Okanagan’s Wood Lake this year. In short, local fishermen have been unable to find […]
Life Without Oil
There was a time in the world in which technology and the work of the planet were intimately related. It was hardly romantic, but it has come to be known that way, […]
The Persistence of the Universe
Tired of watering and mowing, and thinking of, maybe, helping out the over-stressed earth a bit by sitting in the boat and watching the wind play over the water like that wheat […]
Aliens Among Us
How thin is the world … Apple Orchard Under the May Sky In the 236,513,210,000,000,0000,000,000,000 metres from one side of the universe to the other, these apple trees take up 2 metres of […]
Wild Grain
Today, these notes on a dry country inland from the Northeastern Shore of the Pacific Ocean have me in a working class city on a rainy island in the Atlantic off the […]
Reading a Mountain Farm
Eco-Agriculture is a form of social art that unites the earth and human artfulness. Since, as the poet Goethe showed us yesterday, what you put into an exploration is what you get […]
The Mother of All Plants
Miss your Mom? Here she is, the dear: This is the German Poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Ancestral Plant He was taken with the idea that all plants of the world could be […]
A New Garden
I’ve been digging. Wayyyyy back when U.S. President Johnson sent his boys into Cambodia, my school teacher told me that I’d better study hard or I’d wind up spending my life with […]
Sacred Waters, Part Two
Many photographs in this series have documented how water flows through dry landscapes, especially as it flows through plants instead of through the soil. There are other times, when it flows through […]
Okanagan Okanogan 