Here’s some soil: It’s a series of shelters, which capture water, minerals and heat, and amplify the conditions for light and seed germination, in the warm area in the first millimetres above the […]
Living Soil
Two Ways to Turn Winter Into Summer
1. Pines, Sun and Water Look how this ponderosa pine’s needles are designed to radiate heat. This helps for cooling in the summer. In the winter, the design helps the tree to collect […]
Mapping the Formation of the Solar System, Now
In honour of my 500th post in this exploration… The Okanagan Okanagan Nuclear Reactor at 500! With a nuclear engineer, even! Hurrah! …I’d like to ask a question of the ideal university. […]
The Valley is Deep and the Sky is High
Look how there are three atmospheres in the valleys inland from the Coast Mountains and the rainforests of the Pacific shore. The first one is high and wet. It’s only wet because […]
The Oceans We Live In
We are at sea. There is no solid ground. It’s time to stop thinking about soil. Here’s one ocean. It is an ocean of air. Orchard Machinery Riding the Waves The ground-up […]
Solstice, and the Wisdom of the Trees
Solstice. The sun is going through a tiny hole into the darkness today and out again tomorrow. It’s not a flower, exactly. It’s just the sun. It has been a beautiful journey […]
The Dirt About Dirt
Do you know what pizza sauce looks like in its embryo phase? Here’s a rare sighting… Ten Thousand Year Old Post Glacial Lake Bottom Readied for Tomato Seedlings Soon black plastic sheeting […]
Soil Atmosphere in Crisis
For thousands of years, farmers have been trying to keep the living earth at bay by stripping all plant life from their fields. Because of evaporation issues around the destruction of organic […]
Soil Atmosphere and Eternity
Plants are creatures of light. They live in the air, eat light photons, and give off oxygen, yet strangely the dimmer the light they’re nibbling on the more efficient their photosynthesis becomes. […]
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