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Climate Change in the North Okanagan
The Paradise Apple, Modern Farming and the Apple of the Celts
Lake Shells (Not Sea Shells)
The Birth of Language on Mara Lake
New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan
Nature is Political Says Rebecca Solnit
The Pacific Northwest is Not the Southwest
Ten New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
Race and Apples 2: The Death of Indigenous Fruit Growing
A Gift of Berries

Solar Water Storage and Capture

By Harold Rhenisch on March 1, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

Apples and Dollars and Sense Through a Lens of Fear and Respect

By Harold Rhenisch on February 28, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on February 24, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on February 24, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on February 23, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on February 21, 2022 • ( 5 Comments )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on February 19, 2022 • ( 4 Comments )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on February 18, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on February 17, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on February 15, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

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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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.
  • Climate Change in the North Okanagan
  • The Paradise Apple, Modern Farming and the Apple of the Celts
  • Lake Shells (Not Sea Shells)
  • The Birth of Language on Mara Lake
  • New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan
  • Nature is Political Says Rebecca Solnit
  • The Pacific Northwest is Not the Southwest
  • Ten New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
  • Race and Apples 2: The Death of Indigenous Fruit Growing
  • A Gift of Berries

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