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 […]
The art of turning the land into food factories.
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 […]
Here’s the Ogopogo, seen from the air just after Thanksgiving … Mid-Okanagan Lake, with Ogopogo Photo: Anassa Rhenisch. Thanks for giving, Anassa! For the full story of this corner of the lake, why not […]
Autumn. In the Okanagan Okanogan, it would be nothing without sumac. In the East, the maple trees and sumacs turn red and the sun burns on the face of the earth. We […]
In open agriculture, indigenous crops take their rightful place as efficient water farmers on dry hillsides. One of the most beautiful of these crops is the mariposa lily. In most parts of […]
Yesterday, I introduced the concept of Open Agriculture: a form of agriculture that works with the forms and processes of the land and unites very different settler and indigenous forms of cultivation. Today, […]
Welcome to the idea of Open Agriculture, farming for the future made in cooperation with the planet. I have been collecting seeds and making notes about new crops for the coming drought […]
Here’s the old story: Indigenous peoples lived for thousands of years in the West, surviving by hunting and gathering, often in abject poverty, until settlers came from the United States, Canada, and […]
A friend asked how I knew when my green zebra tomatoes were ripe, when I’d never grown them before and they were green when they began and green when they ended. Good […]
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 […]
This is the fourth post in which I unravel a year long walkabout into threads, in preparation for weaving them together into book form, not to mention a presentation next week for […]