High above the valley… …a rock catches the rain, and a saskatoon bush lives off of it. Not Much Cover Way Up Here Even the deer have to really work to find […]
Oceangoing Porcupine
Yellow Jacket Building a Nest
She was too busy to worry about me pulling back the branches of the sagebrush and peering in. That’s the way it should be. Sometimes everything is all right with the world. […]
Principles of Innovative Water Capture Technology
To harvest water from the air, turn two dimensions into three… Cedar Fence, Enhanced by Lichen Efficiently harvesting snow and absorbing it for later use. If you like, though, you can also […]
Be Like the Chickadees
Share. Live from the land. Be joyous. Share that, too. Chickadees Feeding in January Today’s three course menu: russian thistle seeds, red root pigweed seeds, & sagebrush seeds, too
The Future Looks Like This
We enter the 21st Century from a time of industrial fishing, clearcut forestry, shale frakking, and carbon trading. Because of almost universal human self interest, we have become an endangered species at […]
An Unexpected Companion
Look who has been up in the ravine eating the bark off of choke cherry trees and now has places to go that entail a very slow walk across the face of […]
Natural Lenses
The human eye is a lens. It is a just one among many adaptations of the energy fields of water molecules. Water lenses abound on this planet. Cat Tail and Water […]
Sacred Water
Molten Snow, Okanagan Landing After six hours of sun. Twenty minutes before sundown. Horizontal light.
A Science of Colour and the Art of Science
I’ve been walking around these last couple days as the earth turns its shoulder away from the sun and the sun comes in lower and lower angles through the grass, sometimes just […]
Water Farming
Yesterday, I introduced the concept of Open Agriculture: a form of agriculture that works with the forms and processes of the land and unites very different settler and indigenous forms of cultivation. Today, […]
Okanagan Okanogan 