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• February 20, 2025

  Hey, What the Fuck Are We Doing?

  A Plea From an American Laborer TLDR: Table of Contents: Introduction Normally, I write education posts on plant biology and related sciences, but the recent degradation of our nation’s mores and rule of law has pushed me to take a change of pace; science as we know it cannot meaningfully exist in authoritarian regimes. I…
• June 18, 2024

  WPSW Moves West

  A Case Study into Roadside Botany. Table of Contents: A Change of Scenery Recently, if you don’t follow me on Instagram (you should), you would know I quit my decent-paying job as an arborist in Ohio to pursue my aspirations of becoming a botanist. This involved me moving my poor self to Reno, NV- a…
• June 11, 2023

  Slip Into the Lady Slippers

  May into June is a wonderful time to botanize in the Midwest. Warming temperatures, lengthening days, and increased rainfall- although this year less so- produce an affluence of plants in bloom. May in the Midwest, although, can still dip into freezing temperatures or potential snowfall, so, cold-tolerance adaptations are a necessity for May plants. Orchids…