💜 Happy February 💜

ig: Foragedpages 🌿📖

Wow--it's been two years since I started writing these quarterly chapbooks! I'm working on #9 as we speak, ready for release next month. It's been a fun project so far, a chance for me to deep-dive into some topics in a format longer than a blog post.

If you want to get the next one free in your inbox as an ebook (and the latest one on foraging safety as well), you can join my monthly email newsletter at https://rebeccalexa.com/news-updates/ - stick around, and you'll get a new ebook every three months. Or you can purchase paperbacks and ebooks of any of the chapbooks at https://rebeccalexa.com/chapbooks/ - thank you :)

"November is one of my favourite months, with its faded afternoons of cemetery eeriness, and its churchy smell of damp musting leaves."

~ John Lewis-Stempel, Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field

What To Look For in Summer * a Ladybird Book * E L Grant Watson * C F Tunnicluffe * Ladybird Books Ltd * 1960 * (source)

🌿 books about plants (& fungi) 🌿

🌿 Books & Plants

“Sometimes I wish I could photosynthesize so that just by being, just by shimmering at the meadow’s edge or floating lazily on a pond, I could be doing the work of the world while standing silent in the sun.”

—from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

1 day left until release day!

I want to bring a spotlight to nature books written by non-white authors on this Earth Day. We need to work everyday on how environmentalism has been colonized and what we can do to be good stewards of the land.

I started my booksta again and I’m super excited to share all my nature, foraging and wildlife books on there 🌿🐌

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Just a quick reminder that I am up to four quarterly chapbooks that I've produced so far! All are available as paperbacks and ebooks at https://rebeccalexa.com/books/ - you can also get the newest one, Common Invasive Plants of North America, as a free ebook if you sign up for my monthly email newsletter at https://rebeccalexa.com/news-updates/. I'm currently traveling but I have both paperbacks and packing materials, plus ebook files, with me so I can get them sent out ASAP. Thank you :)

(Reblogs welcome and appreciated!)

18 OCTOBER. Now comes the full cruelty of autumn.

~ John Lewis-Stempel, Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field

Any nature enthusiasts, especially those on the autism spectrum, I implore you to read Diary Of A Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty. It's a beautiful, beautiful combination of nature experiences, the joy it brings, and the struggles of life being autistic and anxious and struggling in a world of cruel people and ableists. It is powerful, emotional, and even though I haven't finished it, I know it is one of the most influential books I have read in my life thus far.

My new book, Find More Birds, publishes in August, and if you preorder today from Barnes & Noble you’ll get 25% off with code PREORDER25! Three days only, so don’t wait!  https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/find-more-birds-heather-wolf/1143285433

(via How I did with Nonfiction November and manga)