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Okanagan Architectural Blooper Part 2
Wild Watercress for the Okanagan
Okanagan Weather
The Problem With Canada
Ten New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
The Paradise Apple, Modern Farming and the Apple of the Celts
Go, Ogopogo, And Don't Come Back No More!
Okanagan Architectural Blooper
Okanagan Chestnuts
15 More New Vegetables for the Okanagan

Christmas Salad

By Harold Rhenisch on December 17, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

It’s coming along, eh. This corn salad seeded itself in July and came up in August. It ought to be ready in a couple weeks, just in time for a feast. But, […]

It’s Still Harvest Time

By Harold Rhenisch on December 16, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

We’ve had 25 centimetres of snow. We’ve had 9 Below Celsius. No-one around this place is particularly worried. It’s harvest time! Could this evergreen character and lasting tenderness be why sage was […]

Of Christmas Trees and Hemp

By Harold Rhenisch on December 15, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Consider the lowly Christmas tree, a symbol of a people and its relationship to the Earth. Here’s Mission Hill Winery at Tsinstikeptum, courtesy of “Do the Okanagan.” There are many ways to […]

Okanagan Architecture: Fake or Real?

By Harold Rhenisch on December 13, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Fake: Thank You to the Globe and Mail Real: Here, a closeup, so you can admire the finer touches. Got that? No? Here’s another fake: Well, lots of room to park tractors […]

Settlers on the Beach

By Harold Rhenisch on December 12, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

Every winter, Okanagan Lake piles up leaves, wood, reeds, weeds, shells and feathers on the shore, high and low, bringing life to the dead strand line, building a forest. Every spring, the […]

It’s Not the Living Reed that Touches the Water

By Harold Rhenisch on December 11, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

It’s also not the one that reaches into your mind. It is, however, not dead, either. Nor is it the living dead or some other campfire story. It is mind-stuff itself.

Welcome, Pinot d’Oisseaux

By Harold Rhenisch on December 10, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

Some pinot noir, the little black pine of France… … up the hill, a long way from home… … and a crow… … or some omnivorous bird like that, at any rate, […]

Amazing Water

By Harold Rhenisch on December 9, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

The surface of this water has frozen first. After that, the rest of the water didn’t freeze from the top down. Rather, it froze all at once, slowly releasing heat and air […]

Hunting the Porcupine

By Harold Rhenisch on December 8, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

I went up the hill to find the porcupine. February, 2019 He likes it up there with the mountain ash. The way lies through a deer sleeping area. Here’s one of the […]

Cold Houses Needed

By Harold Rhenisch on December 7, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Houses are built in Canada to keep out the cold and keep in the heat. The latter, they are poor at, but when the heat leaves, more is added. Of course, this […]

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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.
  • Okanagan Architectural Blooper Part 2
  • Wild Watercress for the Okanagan
  • Okanagan Weather
  • The Problem With Canada
  • Ten New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
  • The Paradise Apple, Modern Farming and the Apple of the Celts
  • Go, Ogopogo, And Don't Come Back No More!
  • Okanagan Architectural Blooper
  • Okanagan Chestnuts
  • 15 More New Vegetables for the Okanagan

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