We are a curious bunch. We create groups through social interaction, but otherwise run around independently of each other and of the stuff we run around on, and when that running is […]
The Human Bias in Narratives About Climate Change
When is Climate Change Not?
So, here’s a change that’s been ongoing for some twenty years now: aspen leaves getting hollowed out by leaf miners, which aren’t getting killed off by cold winters. One sees a lot […]
A Coyote at The Little Falls
SX̌ʷƏX̌ʷNITKʷ, the second major salmon falls of the Syilx Illahie (and the only one remaining free of Grand Coulee Dam), is not alone in this light. Look at Coyote’s big knobby head […]
The Art of Container Gardening in the Okanagan Valley
Sure, you can put up a container with cedar boards and stainless steel corner brackets, drip irrigation and compost made out of chipped trees and waste water treatment plant leftovers, but that’s […]
Want an Apple? The State of Orcharding in the Okanagan Valley, Part 2
Here’s one. This is an orchard sprayer filling station in Okanagan Falls. The plywood appears to be so you can get off the tractor without stepping in the guck while going back […]
The State of the Apple Industry in the Okanagan Valley
Vernon Nice.
Orchard Lies and Out of Touch Journalists and Your Lunch
This is a story about truth and reconciliation. The headline says it all. Many Okanagan Apple Farmers Are Facing This Year’s Harvest Short Handed, You know, I remember a time, long before […]
Some Things Ripen, Some Don’t
It will be a couple months yet for these grapes in Vernon. If they make it. The weather is turning cold. 23 or 24% sugar is a high bar. Perhaps, we should […]
Global Warming & Cooling Cycles, Okanagan Style
When the apple trees are pumped full of nitrogen and water to make the apples big and keep them from burning when they can’t get cool in the summer sun, then some […]
A Grassland is Not Just Grass
Here’s a cut on the Grey Canal Trail in Vernon, that was planted into blue bunch wheatgrass about 15 years ago. Bluebird boxes were installed on the fence (you can see one […]
Okanagan Okanogan 