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The Snail Whisperer

By Harold Rhenisch on May 20, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

An old farmer in Germany demonstrates how to sing snails out of their shells. All appear thrilled.

Moving Season in the Okanagan

By Harold Rhenisch on April 9, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

Road shoulders are for living. Watch where you park that Ford!

The Okanagan in History: Table of Contents

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This is a Blog about People in Place

I have worked here since 2011 telling stories of the Earth as preparation for a history of the Intermontane Grasslands of Central Cascadia and the rainswept coast that keeps them windy and dry. Now I am presenting this history, step by step, as I have learned it, often from the land itself. The history of this region includes the Canadian colonial space “The Okanagan Valley”, which lies over the land I live in above Canim Bay. The story stretches deep into the American West, into the US Civil War, the War of 1812, and the Louisiana Purchase, as well into the history of the Columbia District of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In all, the story spans the Chilcotin and Columbia volcanic plateaus and the basins that surround them. In this vast watershed lie homelands as old as 13,200 years (Sequim) and 16,200 years (Salmon River.) That’s how far we are walking together here, who are all the land speaking.

https://okanaganokanogan.com/harold-rhenischs-sh op/ Click to buy my new book The Tree Whisperer, an extension of Thoreau's Wild Apples and a book about learning to write poetry by pruning fruit trees. Only Olaf Hauge, from Norway, and I have followed such a path.

Dandelion Swan Song
Maréchal Foch: The Forgotten Grape of the Okangan
Getting Our Land Back from the Pacific Northwest
The Living Dead
7. Frustrations All Around
When Trees are Weeds
Invasive Weeds Are Beautiful
Wooden People in the Similkameen
The Language of Opening
Vancouver's 2016 Colonization of the British Columbia Interior, Illustrated

Jesmond Mountain, Where the Coast and the Grasslands Meet

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