Yesterday and the day before I spoke about ten new fruits for building a sustainable economy in the Okanagan-Okanogan (click), and ten more (click). Today, I’ve gathered some vegetables with potential for […]
15 New Vegetables for the Okanagan
Ten More New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
Yesterday, I started putting the practical side of this blog into order. I started with ten new fruit crops that could restart a failing economy unable to retrain its young people, to […]
Ten New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
When the Okanagan was first settled by Europeans and Americans, they planted European and American crops, although the hills were covered in food. Peaches, Such as This Now-Dying Tree, Were Originally Planted […]
The Creative Economy and a Living Earth
Here’s how the earth came to be alive up on the hill. Spider Making the Most of Invasive Knapweed Here’s how the earth came to be dying up the hill. An investment […]
When Do Weeds Look Like a Salad?
Now. First Day of the Year for These Guys Once I figure out what they are, maybe it’s time to have some salad colour, eh.
For Apricots, Spring Starts Early and Lasts All Year
Life on the temperate earth goes around in circles, the same way as the earth goes around the sun. In this dance, spring is the kind of thing that requires Autumn leaves. […]
How Could Anyone Want More Sun Than This?
The sun starts out as perfect as can be, burning the hydrogen of a star that shone before it and exploded long ago. Out here, where other bits of that star accumulated […]
Snow? No Problem!
Cheatgrass shows us the way to the future: harvest snow. Cheatgrass at the Edge of Winter There is no need to wait for the rains or to finance high pressure water systems […]
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 […]
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 … […]
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