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, […]
Water From Rock
This is a fairly typical bit of vineyard in Germany’s Mosel Valley. Yes, grapes root in this stuff. It’s a good thing there’s lots of rain and it doesn’t get ridiculously cold. […]
Landscaping with Wool
Yes, it’s possible to knit a landscape. Here’s how. The trick is, you don’t start with wool. It’s very sneaky, this wool thing. First, you look around, see what kind of raw […]
The Dirt About Dirt
Do you know what pizza sauce looks like in its embryo phase? Here’s a rare sighting… Ten Thousand Year Old Post Glacial Lake Bottom Readied for Tomato Seedlings Soon black plastic sheeting […]
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