While I’m working on a post about new water technology, here’s a beautiful image of a wasp foraging in the staghorn sumac flowers up the hill. It haunts me. To see an […]
Spirit of Place
Beautiful Poppies and Dancing Bees
The Icelandic Poppies and the sumacs are in their glory, and the bees are joyful. I am joyful, too. Bees in the Staghorn Sumac And Iceland? Yes! You know I love Iceland… […]
15 More New Vegetables for the Okanagan
Earlier this week I spoke about fifteen new vegetables for building a sustainable economy in the Okanagan-Okanogan (click). Some were Syilx crops, others were other North American crops, and others were observations […]
Science, Art, Spirit and Ethics as One: the Project Moves Forward Now
In technical culture, science is a procedure. It’s a way of breaking the world down into tiny pieces, which can be interrogated with single questions that receive a yes-no answer. With enough […]
Evolution and the Colour Blue
Take a look. The colour blue is the one first seen out of darkness. Look at it … The Rise Vineyard, Bella Vista Our fences can’t hold it, nor can they hold […]
An Unusual Insect Visits the Yarrow
And I mean unusual. Look at those wings! Very beautiful! He’d blend in with the bunchgrass perfectly. Perching sideways also works. And with such a versatile and stable design, even upside down […]
Beautiful Moth: a Little Jewel for You
If yarrow weren’t beautiful enough, what about the moth, eh! Now tell me seriously, you want to move to … Mars? You’ve got to be kidding.
Kjarval and the Children of Iceland
Today I’d like to walk with you through the social ecology of Iceland, by way of the popular artist Kjarval. I think it will go a long way towards exploring what Okanagan […]
Prickly Pear Cactus in Bloom on the Sea Bed of the Mid-Pacific Ocean
I wonder if those volcanic islands that erupted at the floor of the Pacific Ocean 120,000,000 years ago, collided with North America, and erupted again as they broke up and formed these […]
An Oriole, a New Food Crop, Northern Pineapples, and Drinking the Sun
I am piecing together a guide to new crops that can build a new, sustainable agriculture and food art culture in this grassland sea. Yesterday, I noticed that a late spring crop […]
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