If you’re walking the moss-carpeted forests of British Columbia in late summer or early fall, keep your eyes peeled for...
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As the October moon swells and jack-o’-lanterns grin from porches across BC, creatures of the night take center stage. Among...
“Chick-a-dee-dee-dee. Chick-a-dee-dee-dee.” I’m sitting outside, soaking up the elusive sliver of morning sunshine in my north-facing yard, hot cuppa joe...
Introducing chickens, cows, cover crops and honey bees to Kelowna’s CedarCreek Estate Winery three years ago paid off: as of...
Two years ago, while walking near the ocean, I heard a noise that sounded like someone prying open an old...
Spring in British Columbia is a study in contrast. Snow still clings to alpine ridges while valley trails bloom with...
Ravens and their close relatives, crows, are large and very vocal black birds that are likely familiar to us all....
“Deserts are where people go when they’re thrown out of Paradise.” —poet-laureate George Bowering, on Okanagan grasslands Climbing upward...
Where Haida Gwaii tapers to a storm-scoured point, a scatter of low, wave-washed rocks called the Kerouard Islands cradles one...
On a sunny summer afternoon, conservationist Ian McAllister and I tacked north into Wright Sound aboard his trimaran mid-way between...
After a several-year drought of morels in our area, this spring has brought us a flush of mushrooms. Be it...
Crunch, crunch. Squeak, squeak. And, if I listen carefully, a gentle tinkling. These are the sounds of hiking in the...
