This is a story of a beautiful wild bee. It is also the story of a beautiful wild flower that she adores. First, the flower. In a few spots on the grasslands […]
Neon Green Bee
Why Did the Snake Cross the Road?
Answer: to get cool in the remains of yesterday’s rain! Bull Snake on a Hot Afternoon, Chilling Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Yeah, but this is a tractor road linking two sections of a vineyard, and […]
Dining on Elderberries
How about becoming a bee? Would that be nice? And you can! Rather than wait for berries and be a, gasp, wasp, with zing and a sting in September and people hanging […]
A Perfume Industry in the Western Mountains?
Sometimes one can get too close to a work of art and see the brush strokes rather than the big picture. Here’s a shot of the Okanagan Perfume Industry that shows just […]
Ripping Out the Landscape Cloth for My Sisters
The ladies are on the ridge line. Not behind the ridge line. On the ridge line. See? And the gentlemen are down in the sagebrush, far below. Like this… I tell you, these guys […]
Weeds and Water and Wilderness
For a few weeks, I’ve booted around vineyards from the Rhone to Mosel, trying to get a glimpse of the art of farming, as it was practiced when it was still a […]
Green Wine
A wine starts long before it hits the chemist’s test tube. In fact, it starts out something like this … Baco Noir Grapes in the Okanagan At this early stage of their […]
Roman Water Today
This is a story about water. It begins a long time ago, as some stories do. Back then, the rain fell, as rain does, and the Celts were making wine out of […]
Vertical Farming
Flat ground costs money and needs irrigation, which costs money, and so it’s off to the supermarket we go, to buy vegetables from men who have money to plant fields the size […]
Earth Scripting
Three weeks of scribbling notes, while trying to figure out the ins and outs of growing grapes in pre industrial societies from the Rhone Valley in Switzerland to the Mosel in Germany, […]
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