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Art for the People and the Similkameen River
New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan
Ponderosa Pine: The Tree at the Heart of a People
The Paradise Apple, Modern Farming and the Apple of the Celts
Climate Resilience in Okanagan Agriculture 4: Rewilding Apples
A Year of Walking & Learning Part 3
Writing and Farming Are One
25 Herbs and Spices for the Okanagan Kitchen
Grassland Education: Reducing Climate Risk 8
Ten Years Into the Future: social and ecological sustainability in the Okanagan and British Columbia

Western Tanagers Are Really Flowers NOT Birds

By Harold Rhenisch on July 3, 2013 • ( 7 Comments )

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 […]

The Cicada Goddess Singing On the Mountain

By Harold Rhenisch on July 2, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on June 28, 2013 • ( 6 Comments )

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)

By Harold Rhenisch on June 28, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on June 27, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on June 26, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on June 25, 2013 • ( 3 Comments )

  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

By Harold Rhenisch on June 24, 2013 • ( 4 Comments )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on June 21, 2013 • ( 4 Comments )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on June 20, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

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 … … […]

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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.
  • Art for the People and the Similkameen River
  • New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan
  • Ponderosa Pine: The Tree at the Heart of a People
  • The Paradise Apple, Modern Farming and the Apple of the Celts
  • Climate Resilience in Okanagan Agriculture 4: Rewilding Apples
  • A Year of Walking & Learning Part 3
  • Writing and Farming Are One
  • 25 Herbs and Spices for the Okanagan Kitchen
  • Grassland Education: Reducing Climate Risk 8
  • Ten Years Into the Future: social and ecological sustainability in the Okanagan and British Columbia

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