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{Originally published as a blog item I wrote for the Climatecultures.net website published on Sept 8, 2025}.

“Transhumant herders have in-depth knowledge of the environment, and ecological balance, as this is one of the most sustainable, efficient livestock farming methods.”

Now back in Selborne, Hampshire for a long stay, it’s interesting to reflect on the particular enduring features of the place.

I comfort myself that there are many New Jerseyans, like me, unaware of the geographical limits of the state – as in what is it like there.

Setting out to collect soil samples to make into painting pigment, I often reflect on the deep history of this process.

Soils: Triptych using soil, ash and rust New Year, fresh start.

With the doubtful privilege of being the first bee to be endangered in the US, the rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) population continues to fall year on year.

There is no English tree which has gathered round itself so much of historic, poetic, and legendary lore as the Yew; none is so closely associated, directly or indirectly, with events, persons, and buildings, which are famous in our national history. – Lo…

The verb botanizing was first used around 1750 to describe collecting or investigating or studying plants in their natural habitat.

Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) ….remedy for fever, boils, eye problems, diabetes, and diarrhea The pandemic has upturned everyone’s lives in 2020 and we all quietly adapt, as we must.