When picking rose hips… … pick the ones that offer themselves to you. Those are the good ones. You’ll know which ones. The others are just mean. This is actually a syilx […]
Gathering is “Instinctual”
When Harvest Fills the Seasons
Look at the beautiful colours here, with wild rose and choke cherry and knapweed. These fruits are acidic and dry-to-the-taste. Only winter freezing sweetens them. In other words, in January they are […]
Unity
The waxwings… … and the fermented rose hips they eat … … have both split their intelligence into multiple intelligences. They are one mind, not two. Of course, it works the other […]
Starvation Food
Late in the winter, or early in the spring, the frost, followed b ty thaw and rising sun, will turn these rose hips sweet … … right when they are needed. That’s […]
Ten More New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
Yesterday, I started putting the practical side of this blog into order. I started with ten new fruit crops that could restart a failing economy unable to retrain its young people, to […]
A Year of Walking & Learning Part 3
My walkabout in the last year has led through the fields of industry, innovation, and education. What I have found comes from observing the earth. Its raw materials are gravity, rock, the […]
A Partridge in a Pear Tree? Better!
I love the old song The Twelve Days of Christmas and it’s “PARtridge in a pearRRrrr treee!” And I love pears. But I am wondering if it’s really the right song for a […]
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