So, I thought I'd show up a couple scenes of the canvas house I'm living in this summer. I own a bell tent, but since we are in Appalachia this summer, we decided to keep it packed up so it does not get

I've been a little down in the dumps this Spring. I'll be frank, this pandemic has kicked my arse. I didn't have a hard time with it until this past winter. Last year, I spent all my time out in the wilderness

(a note. all my pictures on my posts are my own photography, unless otherwise noted. In this case, the the drawings featured are from Wikipedia Creative Commons. For podcast episodes, I use photos given

In early April, I went camping with my sweetie at the North Carolina coast. We needed to get off of my parents' farm, as they are hard to be around, and we ended up at their place all winter, unfortunately.

Right now, I'm back on the farm I used to live on and grow tons of food and herbs on in western North Carolina. The land is tucked into the Appalachian mountains, and is just down the road from the public

Juniperus virginiana Eastern Red Cedar Eastern Juniper Aromatic Red Cedar Juniperus virginiana, or otherwise known by its common name Eastern Red Cedar is the familiar species of my upbringing. It is a

I thought I'd share one of my latest podcast episodes on here. I run a podcast called The Ground Shots Podcast which has been going for about 3 years or so. I focus a lot on herbalism and plants, and often

What is a ‘true’ or a ‘false’ Cedar? The word Cedar comes from the Latin word Cedrus which comes from the Greek word Kedros. The common name Cedar actually came from the ‘true Cedars’ of Lebanon that are

Yesterday, I was working in my old herb garden in my hometown, in southern Virginia. There’s something deeply relieving about revisiting a place that you’ve cultivated in some way. Tending it and exchanging

So, back in 2018, I wrote an extensive plant profile on Juniper. I do independent research on the road as an amateur botanist, herbalist and naturalist and through my travels I have gathering information

On my parents' farm in southern Virginia, the fence line that seperates their private land from the neighbors that have cows grazing is a wild row of Eastern Red Cedars (Juniperus virginiana). They come

This past summer, my partner and I hiked the Colorado Trail, a 'thru-hiking' trail that is about 450 miles or so, but we ended up hiking extra side routes during the walk that addeaed on to our journey.

A new Ground Shots Podcast episode is live today. Sarah Galvin of House of Yore, out of southeast Alaska.

This past fall, after hiking the entire Colorado Trail (and then some extra miles) I landed in Durango, Colorado and set up my primitive bell tent and started harvesting the fruit still available around

Hey ya'll! I've been super busy with the Ground Shots Podcast. I recently released an episode I've spent a lot of time cultivating and curating. I interviewed several folks while on the island of Kaua'i,

I see pain and joy everywhere. Clouds fill the sky, the air is moist and heavy. Yet, there is a lightness on the landscape, this city full of bodies and eras, and movement shown by the layers of trash,

Last week, I took off in my friends beater Honda Civic, that barely drives, to go to the other side of the island I’m currently visiting. Kaua’i has a huge wilderness area called Ko’ke’e which houses possibly

hey ya'll- I know I've been silent lately. I'm going to start picking up posts here again, as I have been doing some major adventuring, permaculture exploring, botanizing and more. I'm currently in Hawai'i

Hey Steem folk! I've missed you. I put a new podcast episode out last week- after about a month of working on my camper at my friend's medicinal herb farm- not a bad place to be stuck. And my friend's

Hey ya'll. I thought I'd post another plant walk from my time in South Carolina this fall. Yes, somehow in all my escapades I ended up in South Carolina at the Falling Leaves Rendevous Gathering- an