So, here’s a change that’s been ongoing for some twenty years now: aspen leaves getting hollowed out by leaf miners, which aren’t getting killed off by cold winters. One sees a lot […]
When is Climate Change Not?
When Is a Fruit a Blossom?
When it is a fruit. It is aromatic, too… …so much so that when a little is added to apple pie or applesauce, it lifts the whole flavour up. I’m going to […]
Want an Apple? The State of Orcharding in the Okanagan Valley, Part 2
Here’s one. This is an orchard sprayer filling station in Okanagan Falls. The plywood appears to be so you can get off the tractor without stepping in the guck while going back […]
The State of the Apple Industry in the Okanagan Valley
Vernon Nice.
100 Years of Digging in the Earth
I bought the shovel on the left in 1981. It didn’t have a lot of a point then. I’ve been digging with it for 40 years now. By the rate of wear […]
Beyond Truth and Reconciliation
Let’s put this simply. It’s about land and water. And about the life force interwoven with them. And how people interweave with that. Interweaving is not just about commercial potential. Here’s my […]
Orchard Lies and Out of Touch Journalists and Your Lunch
This is a story about truth and reconciliation. The headline says it all. Many Okanagan Apple Farmers Are Facing This Year’s Harvest Short Handed, You know, I remember a time, long before […]
Bye-Bye Fire
The correct management of forests is to fill them with water and then to eat the trees. Well, actually the bark of the trees. The wood is used to hold the water […]
Sustainable Harvest
Here are some Spartans I helped Dad plant in 1965. And some Flemish Beauties, planted c. 1950, that I started picking 50 years ago. Plant once, harvest 100 times. That’s the sustainable […]
Some Things Ripen, Some Don’t
It will be a couple months yet for these grapes in Vernon. If they make it. The weather is turning cold. 23 or 24% sugar is a high bar. Perhaps, we should […]
