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The Paradise Apple, Modern Farming and the Apple of the Celts
Reading the Weather
New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan
On the Hunt for Wild Asparagus
Grass, Desertification, Allan Savary and Carbon Storage
What if History Were Not Over? I Mean, for the Kids' Sake
25 Herbs and Spices for the Okanagan Kitchen
Paradise Apple Comes Home
Ten New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
The Forgiving Earth

A Revolving Botanical Garden

By Harold Rhenisch on February 20, 2013 • ( 7 Comments )

Today, I am proud to be a guest on the website, My Botanical Garden. I hope that my explorations in knowing the land by walking it daily, camera in hand, will bring the […]

Cedar Waxwings Stuffing Themselves

By Harold Rhenisch on February 20, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Literally! They flew out of the neighbour’s locust tree in a whirr of wings, perched in the flowering crabapple tree across the road, and started stuffing themselves with apples. No sooner than […]

The Search for Life on the Inner Planets

By Harold Rhenisch on February 18, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Note: I have been convinced for some time now that the best descriptions of contemporary life are in Speculative Fiction. Here’s a first attempt at bringing them out of fiction into the […]

Amazing Water

By Harold Rhenisch on February 15, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

Look what this stuff can do! Late Winter Puddle Showing the complexity of water’s relationship to energy. The energy of the stars is here with us. Maybe it’s not a good idea […]

Magpie, My Brother!

By Harold Rhenisch on February 14, 2013 • ( 4 Comments )

Dogs are man’s best friend. So it is said. It’s true, too. Humans and dogs evolved together. You could say, people became human by interacting with dogs, and dogs became dogs by […]

How Could Anyone Want More Sun Than This?

By Harold Rhenisch on February 13, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

The sun starts out as perfect as can be, burning the hydrogen of a star that shone before it and exploded long ago. Out here, where other bits of that star accumulated […]

Snow? No Problem!

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

Cheatgrass shows us the way to the future: harvest snow. Cheatgrass at the Edge of Winter There is no need to wait for the rains or to finance high pressure water systems […]

Spring Cropping and Water Saving

By Harold Rhenisch on February 11, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Before the snow fell late last November, I planted my spinach. On February 8, when I made the following image, the snow had been gone for 3 days. Spinach is Up! Around August […]

Porcupine My Brother!

By Harold Rhenisch on February 8, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Here’s an example of porcupine cherry tree pruning: Porcupine Art on Grassland Choke Cherry Instead of brush strokes, thinks tooth strokes. Think: playing a cello with your teeth. And no strings. And […]

The Hunter and the Hunted (and the Lovers, too)

By Harold Rhenisch on February 7, 2013 • ( 9 Comments )

So, I’m strolling along, whistling and happy in the sun, when one of the hawks that are so busy hunting in these snowy days leaps off a power pole and hassles a […]

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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.
  • The Paradise Apple, Modern Farming and the Apple of the Celts
  • Reading the Weather
  • New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan
  • On the Hunt for Wild Asparagus
  • Grass, Desertification, Allan Savary and Carbon Storage
  • What if History Were Not Over? I Mean, for the Kids' Sake
  • 25 Herbs and Spices for the Okanagan Kitchen
  • Paradise Apple Comes Home
  • Ten New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
  • The Forgiving Earth

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