Here’s a way to get close to your apple trees … Can a Tree Have Too Many Leaves? Can a child not speak with its hands? What else do we have but […]
Knitting New Leaves for Old Trees
Kokanee in Peril
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has just released a story about the decline of the Kokanee fishery in the Okanagan’s Wood Lake this year. In short, local fishermen have been unable to find […]
Many Worlds
Ever since Apollo astronauts sent back a picture of the blue earth hanging in space, it has been easy to imagine the earth as a drop of water in the emptiness: tiny, […]
Fun Fun
So, let’s go to that premium human, salmon and wine habitat, Lake Chelan, for a moment, and see how the people are doing. This, after all, is the lake in which hydrofoil […]
Horses and Almond Trees and True Love
What about the horses, eh? Pretty intriguing creatures to share a planet with. You saw them yesterday, recolonizing the mistake of an orchard at Kiona, after the seduction of cheap water evaporated […]
The Biggest Waterfall of All
So, just imagine. You’re beetling along happily across the wheat fields of the Washington desert after a freak spring snow, getting passed by giant fertilizer trucks every time you stop to take […]
Okanagan Land Claim Twist
Here in the desert, we have been blessed with 135 kilometres of fossilized glacial water. In the summers, when the stuff warms up, people play and splash about, especially people who have […]
The Problem with Winter
Spring, summer, autumn and winter, the four seasons, right? In the temperate zone, of course. But what about the wet season and the dry season? In Vancouver or Seattle or Reykjavik, for instance, […]
The Peaches of Winter
Our supermarkets fly fruit to us from Peru, Chile, Argentina, Morocca, Israel, China, Japan, Mexico, California, New Zealand, Australia, Greece, Turkey, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and wherever in the world else, but […]
Playing with Land
The British Columbia Agricultural Land Reserve Commission, created to protect agricultural land from development, has just approved the transformation of 10 acres of agricultural land on the Okanagan College Property in Vernon […]
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