This is what comets look like when long elliptical orbits bring them close to the sun and they are captured by the gravity of large hunks of rock that are floating around […]
Planet of Wonder
Farms For All
Welcome to purslane, a nutritious vegetable used extensively in Middle Eastern cooking, so native to the region that it sprouts up in the cracks of sidewalks and is harvested from there … […]
Water, the Inuit and Everyone
The road is long. It is worth travelling. The road is hard. It must be taken. These aren’t proverbs. They are signposts on the road to environmental reconstruction of human social relationships […]
Weevils Among the Flowers
‘Tis the season for flowers to go a-blooming. Dandelion after Yesterday’s Four Inches of Snow Went Away Oh, who’s that hiding behind the flower, being all shy, like? When we were all […]
Winemaking, the Natural Way
It’s not an accident that fungal colonies live on the skins of grapes and continue the life of the fruit long after the leaves have been blasted off by frost. In fact, […]
A Matter of Statistics
Statistics is a powerful tool for analyzing data, and for making it more difficult to observe anything other than data. Take a look at the representation of an old way of thinking, […]
Honouring Snow
Ten centimetres of snow fell last night. The wet season has begun. The snow falls, it evaporates, it falls, it evaporates, it falls, it evaporates, and so on, etcetera, etcetera, et cet […]
The Spirit of the Land
All the waiting was worth it. OK, sure, these royal gala apple trees are pruned hard at their tips to draw heavily fertilized water up past the weak fruiting wood below and are […]
Sunflowers and Blackbirds
I decided to speed up the drying of my sunflower seeds by taking them off of all their pretty heads. Look at the colour variation from one seed packet! I tried a […]
Writing With the Land
Writing literature in the contemporary world is largely about reflecting on, amplifying and extending the traditions of literature. Mostly, these traditions are interpreted as the stories of individual consciousness. Those are all […]
