Here are three women walking down a corridor between two deer fences. Plus a coyote, as I showed you a few weeks back. Today, a bigger view. The upper fence ostensibly protects […]
A Crowded World
Deer Fencing: It’s Not About Deer
Any government that invests in agriculture by investing instead in deer fencing to protect apple trees from deer should just keep its money… …because it doesn’t work.
The Sun Rises on a New Farming Year
At first, there was capital investment to create a fruit growing industry in British Columbia that could supply England and such colonies as Hong Kong and Australia with a homesick-for-England product: apples […]
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 3: Health, Fruit-Growing and Poison
Apples aren’t as healthy as they used to be. Race has a role in that. A big role, actually. Poor Joseph. Now he’s a hydroelectric dam. Spanning the Columbia right next to […]
Climate Resilience in Okanagan Agriculture 4: Rewilding Apples
There are too many apples in the world. Far too many. Too much cropland is taken up producing a product falling out of cultural favour. For 120 years in Canada, the solution […]
A Broken Culture Has Started Flogging Candy in the Okanagan Now
Land was taken from the Okanagan Indian Band to start a cattle industry in the 1860s, to generate a cash economy to support the administration of the colony of British Columbia and […]
Peach Harvest Begins
When I was six years old, I went from farm to farm with my father, and watched as he and the other men in town sliced open peach blossoms to see how […]
Organic Aphid Control in the Plum Orchard
Simple. Just wait. Problem solved.
Changing the Climate One Porcupine at a Time
This is the closing of a series on mitigating climate change through local action. The Earth is very responsive. We can trust that. This estuary on Vernon Creek, for example, with its […]
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