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Grassland Education: Reducing Climate Risk 8
Becoming History in the Okanagan
Ten New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
Ponderosa Pines: The Van Goghs of the Leaf World
The Waxwings are Here!
The Best Classroom Ever
Instinct at Work and Play
Replanting the Old Growth Forests of the Okanagan
In the Okanagan, the Pineapples are Ripe When the Snow Flies
The Valley is Deep and the Sky is High

The Time of Starting Over

By Harold Rhenisch on November 10, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

Now that economies are struggling, it’s a good idea to look at some previous collapses. Hundreds of orchards, for one, have disappeared in northern Washington in the last dozen years. At first […]

Metal People in the Rust Belt

By Harold Rhenisch on November 9, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

I think reality has become a fantasy and the true story of our time is written in science fiction. Here, for example, is a man holding up a salmon in praise, on […]

Waiting for Winter

By Harold Rhenisch on November 8, 2011 • ( 2 Comments )

The Canadian Okanagan is the deep south. At its farthest south, Osoyoos boasts Spanish architecture and is famed for desert sun and vineyards. Grapes are planted here on old orchard land, impossibly […]

Learning from the South

By Harold Rhenisch on November 7, 2011 • ( 3 Comments )

Images of people change with time. Here is John Chukuaskin Ashnola’s grave from Upper Keremeos. He became chief of the Ashnola people in 1866, until his death some fifty years later. He […]

Ogopogo

By Harold Rhenisch on November 4, 2011 • ( 5 Comments )
canada ogopogo stamp

Okanagan Lake is home to a monster called Ogopogo. He’s awfully good for tourism. What is he? A sturgeon? A hunk of driftwood? A plesiosaur? Well, maybe not a plesiosaur, not if […]

Nuclear Fusion With a Twist

By Harold Rhenisch on November 3, 2011 • ( 3 Comments )
X Ray photo of the sun.

I had an idea about the land. It started in the sky and ended on earth. It went like this. First, a tiny introduction. Nuclear fusion is the process of merging two lighter […]

Secret Water and Lost Water

By Harold Rhenisch on November 2, 2011 • ( 2 Comments )
hawthorn beside the road

One secret of water is that it flows downhill. Another is that it does not stay. This is true of wetlands, which don’t consume water but use it then pass it on, […]

Political Shenanigans

By Harold Rhenisch on November 1, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )
Vernon commonage view

Who owns the land? Coyotes, I think. Still, issues of human land use remain politically troubled. The area in the midground of this picture, for example, is part of an area of […]

The Living Dead

By Harold Rhenisch on October 31, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )
puking pumpkin

Halloween is an ancient ritual, played out on October 31, the old New Year’s Eve. In the English version of these ceremonies, which the Canadian Okanagan inherited, children dress up as lost […]

Before the Crush

By Harold Rhenisch on October 30, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )
Happy humans picking grapes at The Rise

It is always exciting to taste a new vine as it pours out of the press into an enamel cup. Behind the sweetness, a hint of the wine tantalizes the mouth, like […]

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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.
  • Grassland Education: Reducing Climate Risk 8
  • Becoming History in the Okanagan
  • Ten New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
  • Ponderosa Pines: The Van Goghs of the Leaf World
  • The Waxwings are Here!
  • The Best Classroom Ever
  • Instinct at Work and Play
  • Replanting the Old Growth Forests of the Okanagan
  • In the Okanagan, the Pineapples are Ripe When the Snow Flies
  • The Valley is Deep and the Sky is High

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