@awkwardbotany / awkwardbotany.tumblr.com
Before I started this blog, I had spent 16 years publishing zines at a steady clip and sending them to all corners of the world through the mail. I had never really meant to abandon zines altogether, and in some ways, putting all my writing efforts into a blog felt a little like a betrayal. My intention had always been to one day put together another zine. Now, six and a half years later, I’m…
1. The Curious Nature Guide by Clare Walker Leslie
2. Fruit Key and Twig Key to Trees and Shrubs by William M. Harlow
3.The Book of Weeds by Ken Thompson
4. Wild Suburbia by Barbara Eisenstein
5. Gifts of the Crow by John Marzluff and Tony Angell
6. Everybody Hurts by Leslie Simon and Trevor Kelley
7. Dandelion Hunter by Rebecca Lerner
8. A Feast of Weeds by Luigi Ballerini
9. A Weed by Any Other Name by Nancy Gift
10. The Un-Discovered Islands by Malachy Tallack
11. The Hidden Lives of Owls by Leigh Calvez
12. Where Do Camels Belong? by Ken Thompson
13. The Front Yard Forager by Melany Vorass
14. All Your Worth by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi
15. Idaho Counterclockwise: A Walk Around the State by Mike O’Brien
16. Seedtime by Scott Chaskey
1. How to Ruin a Record Label by Larry Livermore
2. Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart
3. The Monk in the Garden by Robin Marantz Henig
4. The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
5. The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants by Charles Elton
6. Weeds and What They Tell by Ehrenfried E. Pfeiffer
7. The Dandelion Celebration by Peter Gail
8. Grow Curious by Gayla Trail
9. Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
10. Good Trouble by Joe Biel
11. Curatorial Practices for Botanical Gardens by Timothy C. Hohn
12. How to Be Danish by Patrick Kingsley
13. Good Weed Bad Weed by Nancy Gift
Audio Books
1. Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
2. The Forest Unseen by David G. Haskell
3. The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Graphic Novels
1. Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too by Jomny Sun
Am I working on a blog post about the Swamp Thing? Perhaps.
Have you ever wondered why this blog is called Awkward Botany? I have. Naming things can be difficult, and there are days that I question whether Awkward Botany was the right choice and if instead another name would have been more appropriate. Most days I am happy with the name, but I also perceive that there might be questions about where it came from and what it means. Or maybe no one cares?…
