The Okanagan hosts the world’s only urban heron rookery. Things are full of action there at the moment. The Rookery, Vernon The rookery, however, is on private land, surrounded by tire dealerships, […]
Oh To Be a Heron in the Springtime
The Achilles Heel of Justin Trudeau’s Canada
The leader of The Liberal Party of Canada, Justin Trudeau, has put his shoulder behind the wheel of a thing he calls “The Middle Class”. This is not the middle class that […]
Canada: Ideology Gone Bad
Ideology is an Invasive Weed (Part Two) In cold post-glacial lakes there are no weeds. The weeds grow in wetlands draining into the shore. In Canada’s version of the Okanagan Valley, it’s […]
Ideology is an Invasive Weed (Part One)
Sad news. My beautiful lake, with its jewels of melting ice reflecting the sky … is a bit of a sewer, too, when the freezing line gets in close to shore and […]
Lost Knowledge: Apples and Culture
I weep. At the beginning of the 1980s, I grafted the first Fuji apples in this country, as part of an attempt to free us from the trade rules of the Canadian […]
The Cunning Mouse Hunting Heron of Okanagan Landing
Look, maybe there aren’t that many wetlands left, because they are full of “airports sport fields houses roads road fill single wide trailers left over sidewalks trucked in from across town golf […]
10 New Agricultural Locations in the Suburban Okanagan
British Columbia, the province of Canada that claims the Okanagan as its own territory, is a jurisdiction in which some 94% of land is owned by the government, in trust for the […]
Spirit of Place
While I’m working on a post about new water technology, here’s a beautiful image of a wasp foraging in the staghorn sumac flowers up the hill. It haunts me. To see an […]
Ten More New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
Yesterday, I started putting the practical side of this blog into order. I started with ten new fruit crops that could restart a failing economy unable to retrain its young people, to […]
Ten New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
When the Okanagan was first settled by Europeans and Americans, they planted European and American crops, although the hills were covered in food. Peaches, Such as This Now-Dying Tree, Were Originally Planted […]
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