The new apricot trees from the survivor of the end of native fruit growing in 1923, with the jailing of Paul Terbasket for watering his trees, a sideshow to the McBride Commission […]
Paul’s Apricots are Ready for Winter
A Giant Apple
Not only is a Spigold big… … but it is very late, which means it ripens when it is cool and so is a far better keeper than its sister, the Jonagold. […]
Night, Night, Sweet Ladies!
See you outside again in May! Brand new shelves. For scale, the big cubicle is four feet wide and five feet tall. The top pot on the left weighs around 90 pounds. […]
Of Memory and Resilience
Tbese webs are woven, and then rebuilt again and again after being torn by prey. They are then built on the old pattern, and become thick. This is what memory looks like, […]
A Bountiful Filbert Harvest
The filberts are here! This is after I washed them. Can you spot the one with the mouse hole in it? The mice got 10%. The rest, rescued from the lilac, the […]
The Big Agricultural Lie
If you ever needed proof that agricultural fences in the Okanagan, which are erected to keep out the deer, aren’t erected for that reason at all, this is it.
The Earth is Not the World … Yet
The day does not begin with land. It is only part of the day because it was there from before and its motion allows the day to open. And we say this, […]
Fooling Around With Tomatoes and Marigolds
So, I went away for weeks. And the marigolds I planted to keep the tomatoes safe from bugs went a little wild. OK, very wild! Look at that tomato below, making a […]
Apple Harvest, Gloriously
She’s a beautiful apple isn’t she, all knobbly like a green tomato, and with hail scars, to boot! Today was picking day! What a grand day. The box on the left are […]
Pine Grass: Fighting Fire with Fire
Pine grass is really cool stuff. It does what grass does, which is to say it grows up, but then it falls over. It doesn’t break its stalks to do so, and […]
