I hope that your journeys through this past year have brought you the blessings of earth, water, air, and sun, and I send you my wish that they will lead to future […]
Merry Christmas
On the Eve of Christmas
Here in the darkest weeks of the year, it’s good to remember where we’ve come from and where we’re going to. Sometimes it’s to a place none too serious: Gate Post, Okanagan […]
Okanagan Chestnuts
Here’s a crop we see too little of in the valley: nuts. It’s like having Christmas on the tree. Gone are the days when we used to sit in front of the […]
Wine for Christmas and the Future
There are two new vineyards on the block. The first is Meyer Family Vineyards, which is located under this Coyote Rock in Okanagan Falls, on deep gravels and sands that appear to […]
Naming A New Apple
Apples are among the highest glories of human culture. That’s why it’s exciting when B.C. Tree Fruits, the corporation that markets Okanagan apples (and Okanogan apples, too), to the supermarket industry, releases […]
What Does it Mean to Live on Volcanic Land?
It means that you would do well to throw away the word ‘rock’ and pick something more appropriate, like this example I found on the edge of a nondescript narrow stream bed […]
A Partridge in a Pear Tree? Better!
I love the old song The Twelve Days of Christmas and it’s “PARtridge in a pearRRrrr treee!” And I love pears. But I am wondering if it’s really the right song for a […]
Transportation: It’s What We Do
The East Kelowna cherry farmer Hugh Dendy, whose family has been farming East Kelowna since farming in East Kelowna began, told me once that Kelowna’s decline into a strip mall paradise began […]
The Peaches of Winter
Our supermarkets fly fruit to us from Peru, Chile, Argentina, Morocca, Israel, China, Japan, Mexico, California, New Zealand, Australia, Greece, Turkey, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and wherever in the world else, but […]
Dogs Dogs Dogs
Dogs have been important in the Okanagan for thousands of years. To lead us on the trail of a possible reason why, here is one of Mourning Dove’s tales of that wild […]
