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 […]
Pine Grass: Fighting Fire with Fire
Old Trees Must Die
250 years old seems a good minimum, and then five years to lose all the needles. Then a Douglas fir is ready for a second life. Where else is a young eagle […]
All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go: a Day Off the Reservation
Traditional dancing might not help. The slope that male deer have been using for their fall gatherings have been graded, sculpted and turned into a big wide flat parking lot for white […]
Paintbrush Has a Visitor
It’s great when you put yourself out there and wait and wait and wait… … and then one day the guests come. Thanks for visiting my blog, eh!
What to Do When Your Apple Pie Gets Hailed On
It was fifteen minutes of hail around 1.5 centimetres in diameter, so, like, way too big for apples that were only 3 centimetres across. I did what we all have to do […]
Random Bug Control
This is an example of the “if it comes out of the ground, who am I to say it doesn’t belong there” style of gardening. Tomatoes hate this approach, but, as you […]
Summer Radishes Don’t Grow Under the Ground
Great radish crop in the heat now. The image below shows a small part of the haul from one plant, ripening beautifully. In the spring, they put their heat in a swollen […]
Peach Harvest Begins
When I was six years old, I went from farm to farm with my father, and watched as he and the other men in town sliced open peach blossoms to see how […]
The Power of Opening
We are clematis. The rushing waters where the Pacific Ocean lifts to the sky and splashes down on rock sometimes look dry, scoured by the sky more than by water… … and […]
Future Memory
I’ve got it! Creativity is the act of settling land. Instead of knowing where you are and planting crops where gravity, sun, rain and snow say to plant them, like the mustard […]
