This is a subdirectory of the HOME | Nature Directory on Substack. This sub-page lists publications that share nature-inspired garden, homestead, and farming essays and art.
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Canada
Biodiversity around our towns with news of wildlife gardening.
From the author: As a biologist, I try to help people open their eyes to the wildlife around our homes.
By: James Evarts
Spain (Catalunya)
We are a group of over 50 scientists and we do: inventory of species (3,500 so far), two weather stations, digital monitoring of river systems, & ongoing counts of butterflies, birds, & flowers across an area of approximately 4,500 acres which represents the entire river valley of the RÃo Catllar.
Scientist’s note: Visit our site (in Catalan and English) to learn of our discovery of a robust population of Thyreophora cynophila (Bone Skipper), our monitoring of the extremely threatened Galemys pyrenaicus (Pyrenean Desman), and our study of two populations of Bombus gerstaeckeri (feeds on Aconitum riparian).
United States
I write about building and designing a garden, and the magic of living in the woods and growing things.
Author’s note: This is the short history and outline of the gardens; a useful place to start.
France
Light hearted nature journaling and field notes from small holding on a hill in France…
United States; Global
Essays on practical holistic gardening and farming with esoteric spiritual insights into ways of healing the Earth.
From the writer: Here is a good place to start; some posts are more contemplative, others extremely practical, and still others more ecological and scientific.
United Kingdom
Discover Anne’s writing from her experience as a herbal grower, practitioner, researcher and permaculture designer.
Writer’s note: Here’s a good place to start. I love to write about fantastic medicinal trees such as juneberry!
United States
I love to share my flower gardens in Missouri Zone 6b (now 7a), camping, hiking, travels, the great outdoors, photography of the same, digital scrapbooking art, and encourage others to see the little things that bring joy, as well as other topics.
From the artist: My garden journal is here. My travel and photography journal is here.
Europe and U.K.
A poetically philosophical look at farming, nature, ecology, and localism - with a few other things thrown in too.
United States
A first generation farmer's reflections on finding our way back to ourselves by renewing our connection to nature and digging our hands into the earth.
From the author: My essay on death and the cyclical way of life as seen in nature remains close to my heart and the path I have chosen to walk on my journey as a farmer and grower of plants and animals.
Norway
I illustrate microbes as wildlife in their natural habitats, aiming to make the microbial world more relatable for everyone.
United States
Reflections on living slowly and seasonally from a cabin the woods of Maine.
United States
A couple of naturalists from the swamps of Louisiana writing about their new life moving to a ranch in Oklahoma.
Authors’ suggestion: Start here!
United States
Ditch the box. Just think outside.
Author’s suggestion: Start here.
United States
Author’s note: An Ode to The Earth
Canada
Supporting healing through connection with nature.
From the author: After years spent working in forests and gardens, it was my son's forest school that slowed me down and started my practice of nature journaling and writing nature-inspired poetry.