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The Preferred Flower of Life
Monotropa uniflora, the ghost pipe: a plant with no chlorophyll that feeds off fungi, the flower Emily Dickinson called the preferred flower of life, and the Greek root it shares with monotropism.
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It Stays Green, and Then It Goes
Zine No. 102 — Young Readers A read-aloud about what a leaf actually does in autumn — which is not what anybody thinks — with every source kept on the page for the grown-up.
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Almost All of It Is Holes
Zine No. 100 — Young Readers A read-aloud about a seed that flies on the parts that are not there — with something you can try, and every source kept on the page for the grown-up.
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How this site is made
The design of Queering Earth: a Victorian herbarium sheet as the model, biophilic ground rules, the palette, the type, the drawings, and what we mean by specimen, sheet, plate, and label.
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Seeds That Wait
Zine No. 93 — Young Readers Some seeds do nothing at all when you plant them, and they are not broken — read-aloud science for four to eight, with every source kept on the page where the grown-up can…
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The Colours You Cannot See
Zine No. 94 — Young Readers There are patterns on flowers that your eyes have no part for, and they are really there — read-aloud science for four to eight, with every source kept on the page where…
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Two Things on One Leaf
Zine No. 92 — Star Stuff On thirty frogs in a stock tank that perch on absolutely everything, a leaf that is quietly moving several litres of air a day into airless mud, and the pairing we invented…
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Two Peppers
Zine No. 87 — Star Stuff On the point past which more light does nothing, one species that answered the same shade in two different ways, and what it takes to stop calling one of them a failure.
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The Width of Itself
Zine No. 83 — Star Stuff On the root that opens a channel, the lawn that stays compacted, and why we keep asking survivors to do systems change.
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Monotropa Uniflora and Monotropism
Monotropa Uniflora & Monotropism: A Tribute to Dinah Murray
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Mossy Minds & Monotropism
An exploration of moss and monotropic ways of being. An invitation to slow down, sink in, and reconnect through sensory depth and shared presence in liminal spaces.