See, here’s how it goes. Yellow: Crab Spider Up to No Good Red… Mushroom Shrooming See how this works? Let’s practice some more. Yellow … Tiger Lily Red… Beetle on Milkweed Red […]
Western Tanagers Are Really Flowers NOT Birds
The Cicada Goddess Singing On the Mountain
I saw the goddess this morning, and she was beautiful. It was up on the mountain, on the lip of an old volcano, where a few Pinaus Lake Ponderosa Pines have survived […]
New Technology: Solar Powered Water Pumping
So much technology remodels natural processes. Current water use regimes pour water on the surface of the soil and watch it sink in. Natural processes also bring water to the surface. The […]
10 More New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan (And an Extra One for Fun)
Currently water is collected in the Okanagan by three methods. The first is to turn high country lakes and streams into reservoirs, which are then piped down into the valleys, to provide […]
10 More New Agricultural Locations for the Okanagan
Because land in the Okanagan Valley is vastly overpriced, due to its demand by Alberta oilmen for planting an American idea of French vineyards (a pure example of colonialism, if I’ve ever […]
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 […]
The Social Uses of Colour Theory
While I am preparing a discussion of new agricultural sites to develop a renewed farming economy, a meditation about light , to set the scene. The German poet Goethe observed that shade […]
Rain Craters and Rain Fossils
It rained a couple inches in the June monsoons, it drained away, and it rained a little more on the muddied post-glacial lakebed silt. Rain Craters The Moon and Mars only get […]
Farms for the People: the Kelowna Model
Over the next few days, I will introduce you to some new farming locations that could help heal the social and environmental fabric of this valley of grass and sagebrush in which […]
Sex in the Grass
So, you see your beloved …… and you make your move, surrounded by thistle perfume on a pillowy bed suspended in open space and swaying on the wind, ahhh… perfect … … […]
