Up on the hill, where it is cold, there is snow. There are also rocks, which heat in the sun. The hot rocks melt the snow, making lakes of ice, and then […]
Solar Water Storage and Capture
Apples and Dollars and Sense Through a Lens of Fear and Respect
Apple growers are in trouble. The government has a plan. “B.C.’s tree fruit growers play a key role in our province’s food system and our government is committed to the industry’s lasting […]
Where Trees Live in the Mind
You could also say: where the mind lives among the trees. Similarly… … the point where the trees become the land is the point where the land becomes the trees. It is […]
Great Big Lake Talking to the Sky
With this First Quarter of a Moon, I thought, the lake is breathing. Such intimate changes, step by step and wash by wash. In the creek, too. Psychedelic, even! When you look […]
Ice, Out of this World
Look at the ice I found up on the mountain today! Here’s the ice right beside it: And a few more centimetres to the left. Isn’t that beautiful! The bottom image appears […]
Apples and Economy in Crisis
Here’s an orchard planted 4 years ago. Well, a tiny bit of it. Note that the trees are dwarfs, planted as close as liners in a nursery. Note also that each tree […]
Race and Apples 10: A Positive Future
This is the tenth of a series on race and apples in Northern Cascadia and the stresses this racial past places on food security and affordability, land access and environmental resilience. I […]
Race and Apples 9: First Steps to a Better World
The 10+ years of this blog have consistently explored steps to a world beyond racial divisions in this valley, despite its racial history. We have a long way to go, but there […]
Race and Apples 8: Connecting food costs, land prices and white privilege
Before 1923, Indigenous farmers contributed to apple growing in Cascadia in four primary ways: As labourers at such places as the Hudson’s Bay Company gardens at Fort Vancouver, Fort Okanogan, Fort Colville […]
Race and Apples 7: Production and Distribution
Here we are, seven steps towards the future. It’s getting close! I’ve been following the trail of the racialized beginnings of fruit growing in Cascadia, to the costs of that in our […]
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