Riding Mountain
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The Human Scale and Our Recent Past

At Riding Mountain in Manitoba, there is a bridge and low-tech dam built by conscientious objectors in the early 1940s at Whirlpool Lake (more archival photos here). What is striking to me about these sorts of things is everything absent from modern life. This bridge was built by hand. There was no trip to the Continue reading
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“Too Much Nature”

Was able to get to Riding Mountain for a couple days of camping, choosing Whirlpool Lake as the destination. On the way out a local told me there was “too much nature” out there at that there Whirlpool Lake. I’m pretty sure he was joking, but it’s also kind of true. There were fish half-submerged Continue reading
About Graham
Graham is an ecologist-farmer from Canada working on educating about the wonders and beauty of the natural world, and how we can design biodiverse food production systems.
