Chloe MacLaren

@agent-sprout.bsky.social

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Plant (agro)ecologist 🌱🌾🌻☘️🌳🌼🌿 Working for SLU in Sweden 🇸🇪 Research on cropping systems in Europe and southern Africa 🌍 From New Zealand 🇳🇿

A view of a landscape with a mosaic of crop fields and woodland, with a lake left of centre. Big puffy white clouds in a blue sky. Savannah sloping away in the foreground, small mountains along the horizon in the distance.
My neat rows of crops have turned into a jungle of sunflowers, maize and sorghum, with the understory dominated by pumpkins and cowpeas, with a bit of hibiscus poking out. Yellow sunflowers and pumpkin flowers in a mass of green leaves.
A small grey-green frog sitting on a silver door handle
A photo of a pleasingly symmetrical baobab tree in front of a view small brick buildings forming part of a small village in Sinda district, Zambia. Cloudy sky speckled with blue behind.
A tidy plot of young soybean plants in rows, some maize in the foreground. Reddish soil in between. A white pick-up truck on a dirt road to the left. Trees and hills in the distance in front of a lightly cloudy sky.
Mixed crop plants in front of a brick wall. Sunflower, sorghum, legumes, hibiscus, and a pumpkin plant with big leaves curling along the front.
Two mushrooms in a lawn in the foreground, more mushrooms in the background in a partial fairy circle. Light brown mushrooms, a bit speckled, green grass.
Close up of a very tiny frog, mottled brown in colour, next to the rough edge of a rubber doormat which looks like a wall in comparison to the tiny frog
early growth of different plants in curving rows by a brick wall. each row is a different shade of green and has different leaf shapes - sunflowers, grasses, beans, groundnuts, rosella. the soil and wall are a soft brown.
Beans and seeds of different colours mixed together