Entering the Rockies on the Greyhound
Nelson farmers market
Permaculture class
We sat in a circle with Gregoire every morning
Gregoire, the instructor
Wild edibles; Shanoon gives us a tour of the forest.
Shanoon emparts wisdom
View of the Slocan Valley in Winlaw
Permaculture students listening to Shanoon's stories of the valley
Rabi'a, a beautiful, spirited Dutch woman, gives us a tour of her permaculture-designed B&B
Rabi'a and Gregoire; I think they'd make a pretty good match...
My first double-dug bed in Ricardo's garden
Shemmaho describes to us the 10 most important medicinal herbs
View of the mountains across the river from Gregoire's property
Frank talks about his farm where he strives to do everything by hand
Frank's human-drawn seeder
Gregoire before Frank's crops
Frank's all-natural chicken incubator
Anti-machine Frank shows off the theshing machine that he built
Daisy about to bloom
Comfrey leaf
Lamb's quarters, one of the most nutritious plants around (considered a weed practically everywhere)
Phil and Suzanne's solar-powered off-grid home
Phil caresses his 35W freezer.
Lichens
Recordo Ricardo
The puppy Indigo
A view from the bike trail yesterday afternoon
A barn across the river
Wooden huts like this are characteristic of the Slocan Valley
Dog in water
A broken cup with a feather and a pencil
I was inspired by the fairy-tale nature of the wild plants out here
Danielle, Winlaw's skin specialist
View of the Slocan valley on the bike trail just south of Winlaw
View of Frog Peak from the bike trail
Isabella displaying her many colours
Ricardo as he sips a double Americano at Oso Negro, Nelson's coolest hilltop cafe
A clothing/crafts market in Nelson at the end of Baker St.
The two most recently double-dug beds, freshly seeded with carrots, radishes, chard and collards
Ricardo's garden one evening
Part of the area that I scythed
Raspberries that I have mulched
Dancing dancers at the Soulstice festival (animated; make sure your browser window is wide enough)
Happy Winlaw dancers
Happy Winlaw children
Phil & Suzanne converse with performing poet
Mythmakers doing their Soulstice performance
Firedancers
Firedancing swirls
Fire glee
Guy & Sarah, land seekers
Me and my rainbow tie
Drumming around the Soulstice fire
Mark & Sunny, my new Nelson friends
Timme, my other new Nelson friend
Sunny & Mark
View of the Kootenay River from the canoe
Timme's Nelson garden
Sweet, sweet stevia in Timme's garden
Nelson gardens
More Nelson gardens
Peggy's part of the Slocan Valley
Peggy's rooster
Peggy's geese
Peggy's clover
Peggy's hawkweed
One of the existing cabins on Peggy's land
Farmer Peggy!
Peggy's sauna under construction
Mixing cob
Janet, Penny and Peggy making papercrete plaster
WWOOFer Mike cools off
Making woodchip-based light-clay insulation
Community chemtrails
Peggy plastering cob
Mike, Peggy and Duane stand in the straw-bale house Duane is building for his mom in Glade
Trip back from Glade to Winlaw
Mike disguised as an illegal mexican immigrant in the back of the truck
The section of wall we plastered at Glen's
Peggy's backyard
View of Frog Peak on a stormy day
Organic Mechanix nestled in a narrow valley
Scandinavian church in Nelson
Janet
Duane
Ainsworth Hot Springs at night
Peggy at night
The dusty conditions unfortunately associated with straw-bale construction
Filling in straw-bale wall gaps with light-clay straw mix
Obligatory cold frame hug photo (built by yours truly)
Pants cooling herself off in the stream
Halfway Hot Springs
Log with personality
Climbing home from Halfway
Good old Matilda Turdly parked in Sandon, a ghost town
Mountain peaks in evening light
Wildflowers on the climb up to Idaho Peak
Peggy being silly
Peggy's dream team: me, Janet, Peggy and Mike
Early July wildflowers atop Idaho Peak
View of Sandon from far above
Abundant Saskatoonberries on my bike trip from Winlaw to Nelson
Wild cherries picked on the side of the road
Wild cherries hanging on the side of the road
Rainy Winnipeg Folkfest day with Matt
Hayden
Drinking maté from the Twelve Tribes booth at the Folkfest
Folkfest mud dancing
Calexico
Visiting Alexis and James
Hoarfrost on brackenferns in Winlaw one morning
Brackenfern hoarfrost
Morning sun peeking over the eastern crest in Winlaw
Silhouetted brackenferns with hoarfrost
Cottonwood Falls in Nelson in the fall
