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OK, Birders, What Do You Think?
A Bold Young One
The Problem With Canada
Grassland Bycatch
The Paradise Apple, Modern Farming and the Apple of the Celts
Computation and Contemplation: Exploring the Organic Computer
Wetland Renewal and You
Ten New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
There is More Than One Sun and More than One Earth
Where Do Cherries Come From?

Okanagan Architectural Blooper

By Harold Rhenisch on January 11, 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

Not every architect is up to the job. Nice flat access to the road, yard from hell, but, come on, that mud cliff? Really? Someone needs a refund. Have a closer look. […]

If You Lose the Water, You Lose the Land

By Harold Rhenisch on January 10, 2021 • ( 3 Comments )

Lichen is a colonizer. It eats rock and releases minerals that other plants can use. Most of the lichen on the stone below has died. It’s a good chance to see the […]

And We Thought the Chicken and the Egg Were a Puzzle

By Harold Rhenisch on January 9, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Is this a footprint of a rock, or one of the sun? Either way, the sun’s heat on this stone has melted snow away in the shape of a globe, which is […]

Spring Begins for the Saskatoons

By Harold Rhenisch on January 8, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Sure, there’s snow, and some Saskatoon buds are closed tightly… … but others are not. The one below is on the same bush, but out in the sun, and hormonally a little […]

Bunch Grass Doesn’t Stabilize Slopes

By Harold Rhenisch on January 7, 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

Blue bunch wheatgrass has been used to stabilize slopes in The Rise subdivision here in Vernon. The goal was to do so in an environmentally-friendly manner, to compensate for irreplaceable habitat lost […]

Mutant Apples

By Harold Rhenisch on January 6, 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

Mutation is not a bad thing. A lot of the flavour of apples is in the skin. The skin changes, subtly changing the flavour. The yellow on the Royal Gala apple below […]

Whole Worlds Hidden from the Settler Gaze

By Harold Rhenisch on January 5, 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

Under the snow, it’s spring. Under stone, it’s the same. Where the sun intensifies and molten water collects, it’s spring. This is when the rock is mined for nutrients that feed the […]

The Dance of the Deer and the Pines

By Harold Rhenisch on January 4, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

Oyama Not only is every ponderosa pine here a vertical column, rather than a star of branches as it appears to human eyes, and not only does it create a zone under […]

Birth on New Year’s Day

By Harold Rhenisch on January 1, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

In an age of humanism, centered on the concept of humans as discrete physical beings, birth is a simple enough process: an infant gestates in a mother’s womb, comes out, breathes on […]

A New Year’s Lesson

By Harold Rhenisch on December 31, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

During the year the birds did not come back, a quiet year by any account, siya?, or saskatoon as she is also called, still created berries and offered them. May we all […]

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I am working at rebuilding human relationships to the earth, growing the global from the local and developing new environmental technologies out of close observation of the land. The land is the watershed and run of the Okanagan River in the North American West, and the Chilcotin and Columbia volcanic plateaus and basins that surround it. It is the goal of this blog to build the future now and to do it through attention to art, earth, science and beauty, so that there is, actually, a future for our children and a path for them to feel out their way to the earth should they ever find themselves in the dark. The project will lead to two book manuscripts in the summer of 2013, one on the salmon of the Okanagan River, the last major run on the Columbia system, and the other on the connection between the Manhattan Project and the political and industrial face of Eastern Washington and Southern British Columbia. They will do so within the broader context of land-based technologies, in forms that are simultaneously art and science. In this land without borders, there is no international line at the 49th parallel, cutting our country in two, and no imagined wall between settler and indigenous cultures. We are all walking together. We are all the land speaking.
  • OK, Birders, What Do You Think?
  • A Bold Young One
  • The Problem With Canada
  • Grassland Bycatch
  • The Paradise Apple, Modern Farming and the Apple of the Celts
  • Computation and Contemplation: Exploring the Organic Computer
  • Wetland Renewal and You
  • Ten New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
  • There is More Than One Sun and More than One Earth
  • Where Do Cherries Come From?

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