This is the tenth of a series on race and apples in Northern Cascadia and the stresses this racial past places on food security and affordability, land access and environmental resilience. I […]
Race and Apples 10: A Positive Future
Race and Apples 9: First Steps to a Better World
The 10+ years of this blog have consistently explored steps to a world beyond racial divisions in this valley, despite its racial history. We have a long way to go, but there […]
Race and Apples 8: Connecting food costs, land prices and white privilege
Before 1923, Indigenous farmers contributed to apple growing in Cascadia in four primary ways: As labourers at such places as the Hudson’s Bay Company gardens at Fort Vancouver, Fort Okanogan, Fort Colville […]
Race and Apples 6: Cherokee Peaches
Let’s talk about peaches for a moment. I think they will cast some light on one man’s solution to racial divisions, through fruit picking. The man was Henry David Thoreau, and in […]
Race and Apples 5: Indigenous Cultures Saved by the Border
Today, a piece of good news. The orchards and berry farms of Washington saved many Indigenous families and children from British Columbia. They saved them because their mothers stole away with them, […]
Race and Apples 3: Health, Fruit-Growing and Poison
Apples aren’t as healthy as they used to be. Race has a role in that. A big role, actually. Poor Joseph. Now he’s a hydroelectric dam. Spanning the Columbia right next to […]
Race and Apples 2: The Death of Indigenous Fruit Growing
Here in Cascadia, where most of North America’s apples are produced today, apple growing began with the potential to develop along two three lines: Euroamerican use of privatized land to grow Eurasian […]
Race and Apples 1: Mixed Beginnings
In the last week, an important discussion has gained some traction: race and environment. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/environmental-racism-bill-c-230-1.5954082. In short, media is reporting on how the effects of climate change and environmental damage are born […]
Frost on the Breath
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 […]
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 […]
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