Apple growers are in trouble. The government has a plan. “B.C.’s tree fruit growers play a key role in our province’s food system and our government is committed to the industry’s lasting […]
Let’s talk about peaches for a moment. I think they will cast some light on one man’s solution to racial divisions, through fruit picking. The man was Henry David Thoreau, and in […]
Seven years ago, I found an apple tree the porcupine planted up the hill. You can read my original post here: https://okanaganokanogan.com/2014/10/20/porcupine-the-gardener/ I thought it was nice and firm and a bit […]
There are too many apples in the world. Far too many. Too much cropland is taken up producing a product falling out of cultural favour. For 120 years in Canada, the solution […]
She’s a beautiful apple isn’t she, all knobbly like a green tomato, and with hail scars, to boot! Today was picking day! What a grand day. The box on the left are […]
Yesterday, I showed how an aspen copse … … could be used as both a living and an agricultural space by farming both its edges and its shade. Here’s that post. Today, I’d […]
In 1981, I discovered an apple, growing in a ditch on Benvoulin Road in Kelowna. I got some grafting wood before the tree was cut down in the spring. She is growing […]
Welcome to the fuscas! Malus Fusca: Pacific Crab 110% of life size. Here’s a domestic apple, descended from Caucasian stock, for comparison. Liberty (Macoun X Purdue 54-12; Geneva, New York, 1955) 40% […]
Some people just can’t help gardening. Take the local porcupines, for instance. They love to chaw down on the pile of cull apples a farmer dumps at the top part of his property, […]
Gripple. Nice word. It has an active form, too: grippling. These old words don’t hang out in a dictionary, though, and Google is hopeless with them, but you can find them in […]
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