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Art for the People and the Similkameen River
The Paradise Apple, Modern Farming and the Apple of the Celts
Ten New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
Grassland Education: Reducing Climate Risk 8
Ten Years Into the Future: social and ecological sustainability in the Okanagan and British Columbia
Sagebrush Buttercup in Its Natural Environment
Climate Resilience in Okanagan Agriculture 4: Rewilding Apples
New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan
Energy Generation By Gravity and Elm
Writing and Farming Are One

Walk With the Earth, Then Fly

By Harold Rhenisch on March 12, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

I made a comment yesterday, that it would be a moment of great disrespect to write a poem about a moment of beauty in the spring. Back in the 1980s, we were […]

Walking Among the Children of the Sun

By Harold Rhenisch on March 11, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

A new year of growth has started, not on the deep bottom lands, but high above, on rock. Here we on a rocky outcropping about 100 metres above Okanagan Lake. The Sun […]

Principles of Innovative Water Capture Technology

By Harold Rhenisch on March 8, 2013 • ( 3 Comments )

To harvest water from the air, turn two dimensions into three… Cedar Fence, Enhanced by Lichen Efficiently harvesting snow and absorbing it for later use. If you like, though, you can also […]

Grass, Desertification, Allan Savary and Carbon Storage

By Harold Rhenisch on March 7, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

Allan Savory is brilliant. He talks about grass. Believe every word he says, but if you live in Western North America don’t believe a word of it. Source  If you would like […]

The Beauty of Streams

By Harold Rhenisch on March 6, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

Words matter. In fact, words are matter, because they set up the boundaries of human activity. For example, what is this stuff? They Call it Water Hmmph. It’s not water. It’s a stream. […]

Muskrats That Live in the Trees

By Harold Rhenisch on March 5, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

This is an awfully wonderful planet — sometimes delightfully so. Here is a typical reed dweller… Red Winged Blackbird Giving Me the Eye The weak colour of his wing patch indicates that […]

Mosquito Safari

By Harold Rhenisch on March 4, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

These look like the weeks of waiting, and watching. Hmmm… Mosquito in her Rocky Lair (March 3, 2013) Hanging around shivering until spring and the first humans in bathing suits and T-shirts? […]

When Do Weeds Look Like a Salad?

By Harold Rhenisch on March 1, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Now. First Day of the Year for These Guys Once I figure out what they are, maybe it’s time to have some salad colour, eh.

The Museum and Gallery of the Earth

By Harold Rhenisch on February 28, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

Museums: repositories of historically important cultural material. Natural History Museums: catalogues of animals and bones, plants and seeds. Think of both of them as books, that you walk through. They were born in the […]

For Apricots, Spring Starts Early and Lasts All Year

By Harold Rhenisch on February 27, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Life on the temperate earth goes around in circles, the same way as the earth goes around the sun. In this dance, spring is the kind of thing that requires Autumn leaves. […]

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This is a Blog about People in Place

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
  • The Paradise Apple, Modern Farming and the Apple of the Celts
  • Ten New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
  • Grassland Education: Reducing Climate Risk 8
  • Ten Years Into the Future: social and ecological sustainability in the Okanagan and British Columbia
  • Sagebrush Buttercup in Its Natural Environment
  • Climate Resilience in Okanagan Agriculture 4: Rewilding Apples
  • New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan
  • Energy Generation By Gravity and Elm
  • Writing and Farming Are One

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