@EclecticEnvironmentalist

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I manage my second growth forest/work in progress farmstead; where I am working to restore it's biodiversity and increase my self sufficiency.

I love to craft, cook, forage, garden, and preserve food.

Avatar: close up shot of a honey mushroom (Armillaria mellea)

Header: a picture of the small stream behind my home in the fall with some yellowing leaves in the foreground.

PronounsShe/her
EducationBS Environmental Science
LocationNorth-Central Arkansas, US
EclecticEnvironmentalist2d ago

Spring ephemerals might be popping up in a woodland near you!

Prarie trillium (Trillium recurvatum) (which only grows in the woods) and Dutchman's breaches (Dicentra cucullaria).

#spring #woodland #bloomscrolling

EclecticEnvironmentalistMar 15

Exploring on a rainy spring day found a really cool fungus, eating a log, being eaten by a colony of really cool millipedes. What a nice day :3

The fungus is violet crust (Phlebiopsis crassa) and the millipedes are feather millipedes (Brachycybe lecontii).

#nature #spring #rainy #millipede #fungus

EclecticEnvironmentalistMar 15

New fern fronds unfurling!

#nature #mosstodon #spring

EclecticEnvironmentalistMar 13
Quite a few of my early spring flowering trees have already set flowers which is delightful to see. My local weather is predicting a hard freeze just after the weekend so we will see if they can last though. I hope so because I'd really like some sand plums! If anyone knows what species my little cellophane bee visitor is I'd love to know.
#bloomscrolling #flowerfriday #pollinator #bee
EclecticEnvironmentalistMar 13
The spring rains are here and all of the mosses know it. So many of them are fruiting #mosstodon
EclecticEnvironmentalistJan 26

The sudden cold after such a mild winter caused frost ribbons to form! I took these pictures a few days before the snow moved in.

They usually only happens during the first hard frost of the year so it is quite odd to see them in late January

#silentsunday #nature

EclecticEnvironmentalistJan 25

I used yesterdays snow day to felt a new bird ornament, now I have a tufted titmouse!

#crafting #felting #birdwatching #snowday

EclecticEnvironmentalistJan 25

Very snowy and peaceful! The stream was almost frozen over yesterday, we will see if it's still flowing this afternoon

#snowday #snow #bunny #animaltracks #nature #silentsunday

EclecticEnvironmentalistJan 25

The snow has brought new birds up to the feeder!

#snowday #birdwatching

EclecticEnvironmentalistDec 10
Made the house so Christmas cozy! I turned the ficus into the Christmas tree🎄
#cozy #christmas