Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce you to the neighbourhood quail doing their tra la la back in the sweet time of flowers and weeds. At night, this stretch belongs to the […]
Dandelions, Awake!
Farms For All
Welcome to purslane, a nutritious vegetable used extensively in Middle Eastern cooking, so native to the region that it sprouts up in the cracks of sidewalks and is harvested from there … […]
Honouring Snow
Ten centimetres of snow fell last night. The wet season has begun. The snow falls, it evaporates, it falls, it evaporates, it falls, it evaporates, and so on, etcetera, etcetera, et cet […]
You Want to Know What Cold Looks Like?
It looks like this! Brrrr! This is why heat-loving foreign plants like tomatoes can be supplemented in this landscape by ones that like the cold and think the heat is bad news, […]
All of a Sudden, Winter
One minute, the sun is shining and a guy is bringing in the last of the tomatoes… … and in awe, a bit, as to how the spring soil he made out […]
Ethics
Water and land are common resources. In terms of Common Law, that means that they belong to the people, all of the people, all of the time. Governments, which come and go […]
Invasion and Defence in the Tomato Patch
Oh, I have beautiful troubles. First the scene … … and my beautiful defender … Those tomatoes are about 3 centimetres long. … and her handy-dandy repair job … What, you might […]
Green Zebra Tomato Juice Celebration!
Here is a joyous interlude, to fulfill a promise … Green Zebra Juice And a green zebra, too. So, the yellow tomato juice tasted like the sun, and I wondered if this […]
Curiosity and Tomatoes
The problem is curiosity, way back in the spring … The Day’s Harvest Now that it is fall, the solution is curiosity, too… Yellow Tomato Juice Waiting for a Friend Beautiful, huh! […]
Trees Making Art
Trees making art? Yes, yesterday, at the Bishop Bird Sanctuary on the shore of Kalamalka Lake. The event was a poetry reading. This was the opening (and closing) act. Our artist was […]
