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Getting Our Land Back from the Pacific Northwest
Crazy Okanagan Water
How Universities are Causing Global Warming and What to Do About It
15 New Vegetables for the Okanagan
New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan
Colonialism and the University in the Okanagan
Fishing In the Sun
Giving the Children Water: The Bigger Educational Picture
Picnic Time
Back to the Drawing Board for the Four-Day Work Week

For the Love of Bunch Grass

By Harold Rhenisch on December 22, 2016 • ( 2 Comments )

Quail footsteps. Grass footsteps. Beautiful.  

The Old Tourism Industry Hits the Water Again Rag

By Harold Rhenisch on December 20, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

Look at how the wind and water are building the land at the mouth of Vernon Creek. Look at how little Canada deserves this lake.   Yup, it’s the time of shame […]

Do the Rich Have All the Fun?

By Harold Rhenisch on December 19, 2016 • ( 6 Comments )

You tell me. That’s their houses up above, and some beautiful ice drifting in. Below, is Okanagan Lake the next day after the wind did its thing all night long. I have […]

Ancestral Water Knowledge

By Harold Rhenisch on December 16, 2016 • ( 3 Comments )

Look at the shapes water freezes in when it freezes over pebbles. The pebbles create an image of themselves on the underside of the ice… which melting follows, and air, which re-freezes […]

Plants Always Stare Into the Sun

By Harold Rhenisch on December 16, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

They just don’t see in colour. Darkness, what’s it to them? What’s it to us?   Everything? Do we look into the light to see its boundary with darkness? Plants react to […]

The Music of the Wetlands

By Harold Rhenisch on December 15, 2016 • ( 2 Comments )

You don’t have to hear it to know that it is music. Nor does it have to be written in notation. It can be lived.  

The Wisdom of Ponderosa Pines

By Harold Rhenisch on December 13, 2016 • ( 2 Comments )

Ponderosa pines take this… … and make this… Let no one tell you that this is a desert. Let no one tell you that all water enters this land as rain or […]

The Real Work is to Take Down the Fences

By Harold Rhenisch on December 11, 2016 • ( 2 Comments )

The task is to provide young people with support for their energy and visions, and space for them to open them into physical and social expression. All young people have a need […]

The Mysterious Edges of Water

By Harold Rhenisch on December 9, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

Some waves are wet… Some are dry. Water is a form of collection of this energy, not its substance. It is its pooling. Rivers are its flow — both of the energy and […]

Do You Think Light Moves in Straight Lines?

By Harold Rhenisch on December 8, 2016 • ( 2 Comments )

Not when it combines with water.  Or with wind. Then it flows like water. With a spring of light added to it. We begin here in this land.  Then we go further. […]

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I have worked here since 2011 telling stories of the Earth as preparation for a history of the Intermontane Grasslands of Central Cascadia and the rainswept coast that keeps them windy and dry. Now I am presenting this history, step by step, as I have learned it, often from the land itself. The history of this region includes the Canadian colonial space “The Okanagan Valley”, which lies over the land I live in above Canim Bay. The story stretches deep into the American West, into the US Civil War, the War of 1812, and the Louisiana Purchase, as well into the history of the Columbia District of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In all, the story spans the Chilcotin and Columbia volcanic plateaus and the basins that surround them. In this vast watershed lie homelands as old as 13,200 years (Sequim) and 16,200 years (Salmon River.) That’s how far we are walking together here, who are all the land speaking.

https://okanaganokanogan.com/harold-rhenischs-shop/ Click to buy my new book The Tree Whisperer, an extension of Thoreau's Wild Apples and a book about learning to write poetry by pruning fruit trees. Only Olaf Hauge, from Norway, and I have followed such a path.
  • Getting Our Land Back from the Pacific Northwest
  • Crazy Okanagan Water
  • How Universities are Causing Global Warming and What to Do About It
  • 15 New Vegetables for the Okanagan
  • New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan
  • Colonialism and the University in the Okanagan
  • Fishing In the Sun
  • Giving the Children Water: The Bigger Educational Picture
  • Picnic Time
  • Back to the Drawing Board for the Four-Day Work Week

Jesmond Mountain, Where the Coast and the Grasslands Meet

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