Birds, Animals, and other fellow travellers.
I wonder if those volcanic islands that erupted at the floor of the Pacific Ocean 120,000,000 years ago, collided with North America, and erupted again as they broke up and formed these […]
I am piecing together a guide to new crops that can build a new, sustainable agriculture and food art culture in this grassland sea. Yesterday, I noticed that a late spring crop […]
She was too busy to worry about me pulling back the branches of the sagebrush and peering in. That’s the way it should be. Sometimes everything is all right with the world. […]
Here’s how to make the world bloom next year and the year after that. First, extend the tongue, gently …Second, flap the flappers and stick up the ear thingies (we use only very […]
My friend Claude has reminded me of David Suzuki’s observation: “We need air to live, we need water to live, we need food to live. If we continue to destroy all these […]
Politicians represent humans and the workings of their societies. I believe that is just not good enough. For instance… Not Represented by Politics In a political process that is skewed towards dealing […]
Here’s how the earth came to be alive up on the hill. Spider Making the Most of Invasive Knapweed Here’s how the earth came to be dying up the hill. An investment […]
Wasps, bees, hornets, bumblebees, beetles, ants, butterflies … everyone is out in the wild cherries today. Nobody is in the orchards ten feet away. And not one single domesticated bee in sight. Look at […]
There are two ways of dealing with pests that are eating your crops. The first is human. It involves death. Before humans singled it out, there was only life. Death is the […]
It’s your choice. They’re all fantasies. So, which will the future of the Okanagan be? I know these aren’t pictures from the West beyond the West, but the distance might make things […]
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