“Instructed by companion species of the myriad terran kingdoms in all their placetimes, we need to reseed our souls and our home worlds in order to flourish–again, or maybe just for the first time—on a vulnerable planet that is not yet murdered.”
Donna J. Haraway, “Staying with the Trouble”
Related articles i’ve written
Dark Night of the Soil: Restoring the Human-Humus Relationship
Kinky Roots: What Tree Transplanting and Trauma Can Teach Us
Meet the Mushrooms: Giant Puffballs
Meet the Mushrooms: Chicken of the Woods
Invasivorism {note that my perspective on so-called “invasive species” has changed since writing this article, I would now refer to them as “first-responder” species that are part of natural succession. I’m sure my perspective will continue to change (thankfully)}
My first spore print ever: Flammulina velutipes 
Strobilurus growing from Magnolia seed pod
If you use Instagram, check out my “plants&flowers” highlight reel to see some of my favorite plants that I found and/or tended in 2020. Maybe you’ll find some inspiration, like planting your own woodland sea of Tiarella or learning to pickle Magnolia petals! I don’t actively update or use Instagram anymore, but I like having these photo diaries still available for inspiration.
useful links
The Lost Forest Gardens of Europe
How to grow liveable worlds: Ten (not-so-easy) steps for life in the Planthroposcene by Natasha Myers
Northeast School of Botanical Medicine
Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania and
Mary Reynolds on being an Arkevist
Propagating native plants from seed
“The relentless, irrepressible force of existence is constantly swelling, cracking, and breaking out in new bodies, new beings, filling any spaces I clean or clear, in a torrent of existence that rushes on indifferent to human life. Blink and the scene changes.. Turn your head and wonder appears. The first tenet of my philosophy of bodily becoming took root in this experience. It’s movement all the way down. Plants flex, spread, curl, and climb; animals scurry, hoard, and hide; the ground heaves and splits…What always is is always becoming, ever humming, itself overcoming, with no particular preference for human lives; oh we may come and go in time, but movement never dies.”
Kimerer L. LaMothe, “As the Earth Dances” from the book “Back to the Dance Itself” edited by Sondra Fraleigh
Monarch on Solidago 
Fawn in Ferns
on my reading shelf as of late:
Botany in a Day by Thomas J. Elpel
Garden Awakening by Mary Reynolds
The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna J. Haraway
Rivers of Wind by Ben Kessler
Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache by Keith H. Basso
Making bright green Mugwort dumplings 
Lobelia siphilitica 
Saving Sunflower Seeds
other groups to support/join/learn with
