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The Sun Rises on a New Farming Year
Ancient River
Colonialism and the University in the Okanagan
Crazy Okanagan Water
How Universities are Causing Global Warming and What to Do About It
Watercourse to Nowhere
The Chilcotin Ark Gets Her First Review
One of my Shanties is on the CBC Poetry Prize Long List
Indigenous Land Use and the Agricultural Land Reserve
For Apricots, Spring Starts Early and Lasts All Year

Green Water: Long Term Water Storage

By Harold Rhenisch on October 6, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Ah, the blue leaves of Autumn! Yellow Pond Trail, Big Bar Lake The powdery mildew taking over these stalks, could be called an instance of disease, but since it’s species specific it’s […]

Forests Now and Then

By Harold Rhenisch on October 4, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

This is the forest. This is the way the forests were 200 years ago. Welcome to the Savannas of the Marble Mountain Eskers.

The Light is Everywhere

By Harold Rhenisch on October 3, 2019 • ( 5 Comments )

At first, it appears that all the dawn light is in the sky. But it is also in the mist that rises off the water. Look at how pink it is! The […]

Wind and Stillness at Big Bar Lake

By Harold Rhenisch on October 2, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Within the wind… … there is stillness.   Within stillness… …there is wind. All together now: Do you see that? That stillness and wind are one?

The Edge of the World

By Harold Rhenisch on October 2, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )

It’s not outside the world. In fact, edges don’t have outsides on our planet, nor insides. They are places of coming together and flow.

Winter Begins

By Harold Rhenisch on September 30, 2019 • ( 3 Comments )

A week ago at Big Bar Lake, winter began. The whole sky flew straight up. And then only quiet was left. Let’s call that readiness.  

How to Deal with Climate Change

By Harold Rhenisch on September 30, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

When winter approaches, you can just leave. Or, you can leave your old stalks up in the sky to gather the snow. Or to spread seed. Of course, you can also hide […]

Picnic Time

By Harold Rhenisch on September 29, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )

The sow and her three cubs that hung around with us for September, up in their forest in the Cariboo, sure did give this old tree a whack. Kind of Corn on […]

Stories in the Forest Floor

By Harold Rhenisch on September 28, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

When the forest is kept from infilling with so many trees it becomes the home of fire, the trees recede and greater stories are told. What a wondrous world underfoot. The narrative […]

How Deer Make Spiders

By Harold Rhenisch on September 27, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Some fine pruning. Look at all the trimming from last year! Love those new shoots and rose hips in the fall, mmmm. Oh, what’s this? Splendid! Guardian of the Big Bar Lake […]

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This is a Blog about People in Place

I have worked here since 2011 telling stories of the Earth as preparation for a history of the Intermontane Grasslands of Central Cascadia and the rainswept coast that keeps them windy and dry. Now I am presenting this history, step by step, as I have learned it, often from the land itself. The history of this region includes the Canadian colonial space “The Okanagan Valley”, which lies over the land I live in above Canim Bay. The story stretches deep into the American West, into the US Civil War, the War of 1812, and the Louisiana Purchase, as well into the history of the Columbia District of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In all, the story spans the Chilcotin and Columbia volcanic plateaus and the basins that surround them. In this vast watershed lie homelands as old as 13,200 years (Sequim) and 16,200 years (Salmon River.) That’s how far we are walking together here, who are all the land speaking.

https://okanaganokanogan.com/harold-rhenischs-shop/ Click to buy my new book The Tree Whisperer, an extension of Thoreau's Wild Apples and a book about learning to write poetry by pruning fruit trees. Only Olaf Hauge, from Norway, and I have followed such a path.
  • The Sun Rises on a New Farming Year
  • Ancient River
  • Colonialism and the University in the Okanagan
  • Crazy Okanagan Water
  • How Universities are Causing Global Warming and What to Do About It
  • Watercourse to Nowhere
  • The Chilcotin Ark Gets Her First Review
  • One of my Shanties is on the CBC Poetry Prize Long List
  • Indigenous Land Use and the Agricultural Land Reserve
  • For Apricots, Spring Starts Early and Lasts All Year

Jesmond Mountain, Where the Coast and the Grasslands Meet

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