The project to renew the heritage apricot of the Smelqmx, the last survivor of a 1920s program to remove commercial fruitgrowing from Indigenous hands in British Columbia, continues. Every day I carry […]
Paul Terbasket’s Apricot Ripens Up
Saskatoon Picking in the Similkameen
I met the picking team this morning, north of Keremeos. Here’s the spotter. You never know when someone wants to make a move on your berries. Best to keep two eyes out., […]
The Lost Terbasket Ranch Orchard is in the News
Our project to celebrate the resilience of the Sməlqmíx through friendship and an amazing apricot tree is celebrated in an article by Aaron Hemens in Indigenews. Here is elder and language keeper […]
New Apricots from an Old Tree
Remember when Paul Terbasket’s apricot tree had a visitor? Now there is new fruit! Happy day!
Plastic: The Ever-Popular Choice
Robins love plastic. I see more of these nests every year.
Late Winter Magnolias
A little bit of snow, at 13 Below. Just another winter day in the Similkameen. Spring is on the way!
The Orange Granny Smiths of the Similkameen
Kind of pretty when the sun comes out in February! Beloved of robins and ravens, these frozen and fermented apple daiquiris are just the thing to get through a chill winter day. […]
Rain in Cascadia is Not the Apocalypse
I just listened to a couple Canadian reporters talk about the stress of reporting on climate change and a hostile Earth firsthand during last months floods here in Northern Cascadia, and how […]
The Last Great Grassland
Here under Cipak, the sacred mountain of the Similkameen, the maiden wearing her wedding veil at this time of year and the eastern toe of the Cascades, lies a grassland without weeds, […]
Thirty-Nine Years After the Flood
Two years after the fire: When you stand there in the Similkameen, you experience both at once. They are, essentially, the same event.
Okanagan Okanogan 