Okanagan settlement, circa 1900. Nice. Belgian Rubber Money goes a long way. Okanagan settlement, circa 2010. Just as romantic. Global Petro Dollars go a long way! It is a pretty process only […]
No More Wild Fires Please
It is a catastrophic summer in the Interior of British Columbia. Close to 15,000 people have been evacuated from their communities. Indigenous communities who refuse to leave are isolated. Read about the […]
Evacuated from Fire Country
Central British Columbia is going up in flames. Towns in which I used to live, with my friends, have been evacuated in the face of fire. We got off the plateau just […]
The Pure Joy of Grassland Thistles
Oh, just roll in that pollen. Come on,you know you want to. It’s climbing out again that’s hard. Whew. But, hey, whoa. Bye.
Lambs Quarters for Dinner
It’s your choice: a bounty better than spinach, or drought. Same rainfall, same soil, same sun, same day, same hour, same tongue, same thirst.
The Summer Book Okanagan Launch
A very special book is warming British Columbia hearts this summer. Twenty-four B.C. writers talk of their love of the season of love, beaches, and in my case grasslands, peregrine falcons, meadowlarks […]
Red Willow Medicine Opens Summer
Welcome to stektektsxwíIhp, laying down the summer out of her own healing language, spring. Summer is the medicine. The berries are edible but bitter, a kind of relish; the inner bark is […]
Crazy Okanagan Water
Today, I’d like to show you some water in its living environment and some crazy water. First, living water: That’s mock orange, doing its thing. Home to deer, porcupines, bears, lazuli buntings, […]
Plastic, Gardens and Drought
The replacement of lawn with gravel to save a rain shadow valley from drought is based on the principle of laying plastic down over the living earth and smothering it so that […]
Who is the Gardener?
I have learned this week what I already knew but had no words for. I am not the gardener in this land, but the garden that the land makes. Needle-and-thread grass makes […]
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