Siya? is calling. Time to start practicing your messages of thanks by going out and saying hello.
Big Crop Coming
Creatures of the Sky and Creatures of the Wind
Stkcxwiɬp beings are so much sky creatures … stkcxwiɬp, or “Red Willow” in Priest Valley …that they are only holding onto the earth so their roots can breathe the sky within it, […]
Whose Apples Are They Anyway?
In Canada, the apple’s desire to attract animals is put behind fences. Should any animal get in other than a human, it is killed. The law allows for this. The apple, however, […]
The Pointlessness of Herbicides, or For the Love of Laziness
Herbicides are drugs for the mind. Here’s what a family down the road has done to give themselves a fix, and to take care of the Earth’s pesky problem of being alive […]
Another Tree Triumph at Splatsin
This old apple tree was chopped back to stubs something around ten years ago, and then let grow out. When I came to her, she was so dense you couldn’t see through […]
Green, Green, the Herbs are Green!
I went to the garden to flavour my potatoes for dinner, and what did I find? Aha: A Quick Harvest While the Pot Boiled Top: Welsh Onions Bottom: Garlic Chives From left […]
Traveller at the Core of the Sun
Fare well, voyagers! What a day for space travel!
Planting for the Future
In 1923, a Smalqmx man, Paul Terbasket, was jailed for watering his fruit trees. This apricot tree is all that remains. She is a survivor. Today, we planted 150 apricot rootstocks to […]
Cascadia: From Fish to Lumber to Tourism to …
We are on a path of social evolution. The salmon are gone, and the oysters were long go poisoned by the plutonium plants on the Columbia. The great lumber industry that followed […]
Ten Degree Below Zero: Gardening Weather!
Ten degrees below freezing is, pshaw, nothing to a dock. It uses its red leaves to make heat from the sun that the rest of us don’t get to feel. Curly dock, […]
