Here’s a pretty typical Cascadian road. It goes across the high prairie north of the Columbia River, but not to the prairie. It goes through it. On its way to somewhere else. […]
Roads to Nowhere
Cascadia: A Braided Land 2
Poetry, Poetics and Scholars of Place in the Heart of Cascadia Sunday March 2, 2025 Room: Art 366 Arts Building, UBC Okanagan Campus, Kelowna The Two Cayuse Sisters, Wallula Presenters March 2: […]
Cascadia: A Braided Land
Poetry, Poetics and Scholars of Place in the Heart of Cascadia Saturday March 1 & Sunday March 2, 2025 Room: Art 366 Arts Building, UBC Okanagan Campus, Kelowna Asotin Presenters: For Day […]
Kicking the Colour Drug
The Earth is a spiritual place. I mean, it’s an energy. This energy draws matter to it. It takes shape. The Earth is a shape of this kind. All things on Earth […]
After Christmas, Blessings
When we are finally a people of the land, we will know how to speak and what words to use. Until then, let’s celebrate those who live this life already. The ones […]
Time for Apricots, Bees and Spiders
Gardens for the Grand Kids: an Organic Model for Slow Release Fertilizer in a Post-Petroleum World
Compost requires labour and tillage. In other words, it is a renewable input. It is one that mimics natural processes, or interjects materials into them. I guess it is a bit like […]
The Okanagan’s Premier Architect
The competition wasn’t even close. Congratulations, Magpie!
New Land Use Regulations for Okanagan Grassland Communities
Communities include grass and flowers, animals, insects, birds, trees, water, gravity, people, sun, rock, dust, soil and wind. Each contributes to maintaining a community balance. ANew communities built in the grasslands need […]
The Rivers of the Sun
What makes a plant a plant is not its growth. It’s not that it’s a “growing” thing. Neither is it that it spreads. Branching is popular, but not all plants branch. Similarly, […]
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