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We packed a few boxes of @annieshomegrown while we are living in the campervan off and on over the next two weeks! What’s refreshing is their take on farm-to-table for packaged food with thoughtfulness and action towards regenerative agriculture. Farming in this way intentionally works with nature to pull carbon from the air and store it in the soil, which in turn can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This beautiful process is needed to mitigate the effects of climate change. With organic wheat and pea flour, organic cheddar cheese, rich and creamy butter, oh I am so in for a quick lunch next to Icelandic mountains. Follow @FoxMeetsBear and @annieshomegrown and tag a friend to be entered to receive a bursting box of their delicious goodies! #sponsored #SoilMatters #EarthDay

You all asked for it, so here it is! Soil Microscopic Ecosystem poster is now in the shop! 🌱 link in profile to get yours! 👆 . . . #planetearthbook #scientificillustration #scicomm #sciart #soilmatters #soilis #microscopic

Wine Caps are stilll fruiting!! With our more chillier and extended Spring into Summer we’ve had some extended harvests of our #strophariarugosoannulata This will keep fruiting if it stays raining and cooler but otherwise it will take a break during the hot summer days and wait for the cool weather of late Summer into Fall. We get asked, “will anything eat these in my yard?” and we always say... “Slugs and Bugs!” Every time Wine Caps fruit in my yard, I fall in love with them again. First of all, look at those gills!! Purple!! Second, they vary so much dependent on weather. Like the second photo we have a severely sun bleached one, practically white, while ones less that a foot away in a more shaded spot have that true, burgundy cap color. That’s why it’s so hard to properly identify mushrooms. It takes time to really learn how these mushrooms and fungi morph due to their environment and what kind of weather we are having. But I’ll say this once and again, WINE CAP IS THE EASIEST MUSHROOM TO GROW! If you want to still, we got spawn, head to the website or #Etsy shoppe Enjoy the day! #smugtownmushrooms #mycology #fungi #winecaps #mycelium #spores #permaculture #soilmatters #makemushroomsnotwar #myceliatethestate #love #rebar #youreaslug #shrooms #gills #diy #organicgardening #mollusca (at 19th Ward, Rochester)

Soil is pretty crazy! There is microscopic zoo under the grass, fighting with each other and breaking down waste. 🌱 I love the little faces on all the worms, btw. 🐜 . . . illustration from my book The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth 🌏 out this September! Preorder link in profile. #scicomm #sciart #soilmatters #scienceeveryday #scientificillustration #planetearthbook

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