So, we were talking about flowers, way back, five hundred years ago in Iceland, when you picked a bouquet of wildflowers for your sweetie and they were instantly civilized, just like that. […]
The Language of Flowers
Embroidering the Land
Ah, Iceland. When the Vikings came, Irish monks were already there. At the end of the world they had a fighting chance to get just a little bit closer to God. They […]
The Art of the Palette
Art can be made out of land in many ways. One is to build a highway. These art projects often are a form of politics. Take the highways of Eastern Washington, for […]
Reading a Mountain Farm
Eco-Agriculture is a form of social art that unites the earth and human artfulness. Since, as the poet Goethe showed us yesterday, what you put into an exploration is what you get […]
The Lesson of the Ladybirds
Yesterday, I was talking about how my mother’s parents, and my father a generation after them, came to Coyote’s country, expecting to find physical freedom, and found something else again. In their […]
Eco-Agriculture in a Spring Light
A friend in Wales wrote yesterday that he was glad to see from these screens that spring was on its way to the Okanagan. So am I. Almost twenty years ago, when […]
Apple Hunting with Bears
Last fall, I was driving past Ewing, on the west side of Okanagan Lake, when I slammed on the brakes. This is what caught my eye: First Growth Apple Orchard Gone to […]
Standing Still
A long time ago, orcharding started in the Okanagan when Lord Aberdeen and Lady Aberdeen planted the Coldstream Ranch with fruit so they could make jam and compete with these folks from the old […]
Getting Out of Town
History eventually becomes the present. For instance, to look back to the day when the entire Okanagan was a part of Oregon and the only business going was the raising of cattle […]
The Grace of Wine
Technical wine-making is a new invention. Before that, wine-making was an art. It still is. That’s what I’d like to talk about today, because discussions of winemaking usually give short shrift to […]
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