I love this land. I guess you know that. I am this land. Other writers might talk about identity and ego and alter ego and personality, but I just want to take you […]
Where the Heart is Home: A Celebration
Beautify The World for 2,000 People For $20
Orchard with flax in the ‘hood. Orchard without flax (3 kilometres down the road.) Currently, flax fibre goes for $10 for every 50 grams. Plus, once you’ve made a set of wedding […]
Time Travel Gone Bad
Petrochemical agriculture is a program that uses statistical risk assessment to balance the need of farmers to extract a capital profit out of farming commensurate with the profit to be extracted from […]
The Problem With Petrochemical Agriculture
It’s too easy to do it wrong. View of Spallumcheen Farm from Swan Lake A 10,000-year-old lakebed gets thrown up into the wind while boaters get ready to be pulled around […]
Bringing Ezra Home
To get the real work done, first honour the ancestors. Thanks for listening.
We are Marmot!
Do rocks collect saskatoons because they are focal points of life in the story of the land? Or because they collect heat and rain? It’s a question that goes to […]
Elves in “Canada” and Iceland
Elves are all over the place in Iceland, like this one in the elf village at Skutustaðir. Well, elves are human-shaped, really, but they can vanish into stone and reappear from it, and […]
A Robin in His Garden
Crazy! Welcome to the new Okanagan.
The Future of Okanagan Okanogan
We have been on a journey together for three-and-a-half years. In that time, I finished up this blog as a book (twice!), but then I was reading up on a lynching in Conconully, Washington […]
Frost is Coming Tonight
In this early spring, please say a prayer for all the apricot trees alone in the cold tonight. Thank you.
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