Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. Unless mentioned, all links should be free of paywalls.
essay: Are the Alliums Watching Us? A journey through the world of plant intelligence (Boaz Frankel/Rootbound). His thoughts so far on reading Zoë Schlanger’s The Light Eaters.
photo essay: Exploring the Oglala National Grasslands (Chris Helzer/The Prairie Ecologist). In the Nebraska panhandle. Such a different habitat and terrain than I’ve ever experienced.
essay: Celestial Creature: Indigo Bunting (Will Durkin/The Outside Story/Northern Woodlands). In the 1960s, ornithologist Stephen Emlen “found that indigo buntings use the northern polar axis of the night sky, specifically constellations around the North Star, as their primary method of migratory orientation.”
article: Everything You Need To Know About Eastern Monarchs And How To Help Them (Kelly Gill and Ray Moranz/Xerces Society). “Monarch butterflies in North America are divided into different populations based on where they live (and migrate to). The eastern population (“eastern monarchs”) breeds east of the Rocky Mountains, and overwinters in central Mexico. The western population (“western monarchs”) breeds west of the Rockies, and overwinters in forest groves on the California coast. There is also a southern Florida population, which is much smaller in numbers than the other two” and doesn’t seem to migrate.
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