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15 New Vegetables for the Okanagan
Getting Our Land Back from the Pacific Northwest
Settler Culture? I Dunno. Ask Dickens.
Who Loves Chocolate Mint Today?
Needle-and-Thread Grass in Flower
I Went to the Garden to Taste What I Could See
Ponderosa Pine is Beautiful Even in Illness
Okanagan Okanogan: The View From Here
Beauty and the Beast Au Naturale
Okanagan Chestnuts

The Gentle Colours of the Grasslands

By Harold Rhenisch on July 1, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

If you see something darker, chances are it doesn’t belong. Even that alfalfa in the back is being a little garish, isn’t it!

Sustaining the Okanagan 7: Going Lemonless, Mmmmm

By Harold Rhenisch on July 1, 2016 • ( 5 Comments )

Every day trucks from Mexico, California, Texas, Arizona, Florida and no doubt all sorts of other places with names and histories of their own drive north full of lemons for the houses […]

Kelowna: The Inhuman City

By Harold Rhenisch on June 30, 2016 • ( 3 Comments )

At a certain point, when physical and social urban space is continually built out of practical considerations, usually the manipulation of people for purposes of efficiency and budgetary accountability, the city becomes […]

The Sustainable Okanagan 6: Let’s Go Nuts

By Harold Rhenisch on June 29, 2016 • ( 7 Comments )

As part of the effort to make the Okanagan sustainable, we should plant filberts. This scrubby and beautiful bush provides a rich harvest of nuts in the fall. Filberts are native here, and […]

Ending the Fraser War

By Harold Rhenisch on June 28, 2016 • ( 7 Comments )

This is the fifth in a series of archived posts on building a sustainable Okanagan together. This one is about water. And fish. And property rights. Today we’re at Mud Lake. It’s also called Rosemond […]

Sky, Resting

By Harold Rhenisch on June 28, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

Wouldn’t you? Rosebud Lake

Forget the Water for a Moment

By Harold Rhenisch on June 27, 2016 • ( 2 Comments )

Rain is a transfer of energy. It is a circulation and transformation of gravity. The water is incidental. After all, this is a gravitational planet. The water is just on the surface. […]

The Sparrow Knows

By Harold Rhenisch on June 25, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

You’re not alone.It’s not just social structures that bring you together. The right environmental structures do so as well.    

The Best Thing We Can Do for the Okanagan and Ourselves, Ever

By Harold Rhenisch on June 25, 2016 • ( 3 Comments )

I’m working on a series of 100 practical things we can do in the Okanagan to create a sustainable culture. They are archived in the menu bar above. Let me give you […]

Don’t Be a Settler!

By Harold Rhenisch on June 24, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

Shrimp skeletons on Okanagan Lake, eh. The little buggers were introduced to the lake over 40 years ago. Pretty sci-fi. Don’t worry. That sand is imported too. Oh, and the water? Aha. […]

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This is a Blog about People in Place

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.
  • 15 New Vegetables for the Okanagan
  • Getting Our Land Back from the Pacific Northwest
  • Settler Culture? I Dunno. Ask Dickens.
  • Who Loves Chocolate Mint Today?
  • Needle-and-Thread Grass in Flower
  • I Went to the Garden to Taste What I Could See
  • Ponderosa Pine is Beautiful Even in Illness
  • Okanagan Okanogan: The View From Here
  • Beauty and the Beast Au Naturale
  • Okanagan Chestnuts

Jesmond Mountain, Where the Coast and the Grasslands Meet

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