Here’s how to bake the best apple pie ever. 1. Go for a drive on the far side of the lake towards Fintry. Be curious. Stop. First Growth Apple Orchard Gone to […]
The Best Apple Pie in the World: a Very Slow Recipe
Canada and the Okanagan
Canada does not deserve this land. It burns it… Forest Fire Smoke Over Okanagan Landing … it tries to make it hotter than it is … Plasticized Soil (Weeds, plastic, clay), […]
After You Leave the Nest, What Then? Build a New Nest!
So, you get kicked out of the nest, right? Luckily, there are cherry trees. You can hide. Robin Fledgling Without a Nest to Go To You can wait there for the world […]
How to Ensure a Sustainable Food Supply
Here’s how to grow tomatoes using plastic and hydroponic fertilizer. After harvest, this plastic goes to the landfill. Why, you may ask? To get a jump on the season, without having to […]
Remember Those Cherry Trees I was Pruning
At the beginning of April? Yes? No? Well, here they are again, as April opens into the light. April 4, 2014 … Harold has gone to photograph bluebirds! And just a few days back? […]
On the Hunt for Wild Asparagus
Hunting for wild asparagus. Down below the old canal. In the place between orchards and sagebrush. Time to pick asparagus for a woman whose husband used to drive her up there. […]
People are Blind
Here’s a local orchard advertising down home goodness.Note the weed-killing. (One year ago this was an indigenous grassland.) Literacy is powerful. I think people want to be deceived.
Weedkillers as Art
Exhibit 1: the Wealthy Man’s SculptureNo one knows what those metal bits on the top are. Intriguingly, poisoned plants around its base are considered a good way to sell building lots worth up […]
Industrial Agriculture is Unethical
Earth, or machine. One increases diversity. One reduces it. Or is it so? When the Syilx managed these grasslands with fire and selective harvesting methods, they increased species diversity. The species-rich landscape that the […]
Ideology is an Invasive Weed (Part One)
Sad news. My beautiful lake, with its jewels of melting ice reflecting the sky … is a bit of a sewer, too, when the freezing line gets in close to shore and […]
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