Snow may drift down as powder. A little time decides whether air temperatures will rapidly turn it slushy. In the past while, we’ve been out on the skis four times, including a northward ski tour of about two-and-a-half hours the other day. One feature of that was to watch about 60 swans of various ages [...]
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This being that time of year (Solstice, Christmas, New Years – however you may think of it), I received a letter from a Saskatchewan-based friend who is about 30. She (Nikko) and her partner were in Regina last winter, where she’d previously bought her first house, and they had been pursuing their careers. For quite [...]
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A friend gave me a very recent issue of a magazine called Permaculture Activist. It contains an article, by the quarterly’s editor, about the obvious need for adaptive strategies for the present, transitional time – our time of economic turmoil coupled with increased environmental awareness. The author put emphasis on the importance of “social [...]
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No need to say – it’s the beauty aspect of people’s interests in gardening that attracts so many people to bulbs and corms – as in gladiolus, daffodils, and tulips. But in our climate zones here in the Kootenays, it’s generally a wise move to dig your bulbs out and store them over winter. Otherwise, [...]
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