I am piecing together a guide to new crops that can build a new, sustainable agriculture and food art culture in this grassland sea. Yesterday, I noticed that a late spring crop […]
Cedar Waxwings Stuffing Themselves
Literally! They flew out of the neighbour’s locust tree in a whirr of wings, perched in the flowering crabapple tree across the road, and started stuffing themselves with apples. No sooner than […]
Spring Cropping and Water Saving
Before the snow fell late last November, I planted my spinach. On February 8, when I made the following image, the snow had been gone for 3 days. Spinach is Up! Around August […]
A World of Colour
If Isaac Newton could remove colour from human experience of the world and silence it as a subject of scientific investigation simply by reducing it to a pattern of mathematics, and … […]
Dandelions, Awake!
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 […]
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 […]
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