Author Archives: Rhona

 

Skagit River Poetry Festival

May 19

It’s been a brilliant couple of days in La Conner WA, and the weather likewise. Cool blue skies over a flock of talent at this biennial event. Tonight’s readings by Nikki Giovanni, Bob Hicok and Marie Howe were dazzling. After … Continue reading →

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Earth Medicine

May 10

I’d heard bits and pieces about biodynamics over the years and finally had an opportunity to hear Dennis Klocek speak about elements of it last weekend. It’s not an easy thing to wrap your head around, or define succinctly – … Continue reading →

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Wendell Berry: “It All Turns on Affection”

Apr 25

By now all thoughtful people have begun to feel our eligibility to be instructed by ecological disaster and mortal need. But we endangered ourselves first of all by dismissing affection as an honourable and necessary motive. Our decision in the … Continue reading →

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Earth Day: gruesome gorse and wild food

Apr 23

It was a busy Earth Day weekend. Saturday I spent grubbing around in the undergrowth of Gorge Park where a community cleanup was underway, in an attempt to control the spread of gorse as well as other invasives familiar to … Continue reading →

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Clay, cordyceps, clams and cucumbers

Apr 18

Last weekend’s permaculture course covered soil (with Christina Nikolic of Gaia College, SOUL and The Organic Gardener’s Pantry), fungi and animal husbandry. We started things off with a bit of digging in the garden to collect our soil samples, which … Continue reading →

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