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 […]
Open Agriculture, Day 1
Making the Future
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 […]
Ripening the Sun
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 […]
No Place to Spawn
When the salmon of the Okanagan River come home over eleven dams on their year-long journey from Siberia… …they can’t spawn in their traditional home, the Skaha and Okanagan Lake Systems, because […]
Ethics
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 […]
A Year of Walking and Learning, Part 4
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 […]
A Year of Walking & Learning Part 3
My walkabout in the last year has led through the fields of industry, innovation, and education. What I have found comes from observing the earth. Its raw materials are gravity, rock, the […]
A Year of Walking and Learning, Part 2
Welcome to the second summary of the first year of my explorations in revisioning the goals of literature and the relationship of place and environment in the dry country east of the […]
Invasion and Defence in the Tomato Patch
Oh, I have beautiful troubles. First the scene … … and my beautiful defender … Those tomatoes are about 3 centimetres long. … and her handy-dandy repair job … What, you might […]
Green Zebra Tomato Juice Celebration!
Here is a joyous interlude, to fulfill a promise … Green Zebra Juice And a green zebra, too. So, the yellow tomato juice tasted like the sun, and I wondered if this […]
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