Jan Herder

@janherder.bsky.social

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Gaian, trees, permaculture, history, archaeology, Birder, vegan, Covid conscious. Environmental Realist: Doomer. Posting on Overshoot, climate, weather and issues of collapse equity. Living on colonized Passamaquoddy land. No DM’s unless agreed. 🌈💙

2 bushy 6 year old paw paw trees in side a fenced area. There’s a honey locust in the center of the three trees. the tiny one in the back is hard to see. Beyond the fence is an apple tree
Fledged red eyed vireo attacking its reflection. Full frontal profile. A yarn ball and rope hangs in front of the window. A rhododendron is partially in view
A fledged red eyed vireo fluttering at the window. A stacked woodpile and oak tree in the background.
Looking underneath a goumi bush with many bright red fruits hanging down. You can see my right sneaker and partially a bucket getting filled
Rows of heavily mulched garlic with scapes in a garden
A very phosphorous green Siberian pea plant with a few tiny little yellow blossoms. In front of a fence post with deer fence. Beyond a large unmowed pasture lined by trees
Screen shoot from Merlin, the bird app showing a little picture of a song sparrow, black and white warbler, mourning dove, American goldfinch, chestnut-sided warbler and the red-eyed vireo. These are the birds Merlin hears
Big brown spider in a white tub, up close. Looks like one of his legs is injured
A rhododendron with magenta blooms sits above a bed of wild geraniums with purple flowers. To the right a dogwood is in bloom with tiny white bunches of flowers. There is a wide swath of flower less and leafless rhododendron where the deer browsed it this winter. Sitting in front of of a cedar shake sided house, there is a window peeking out.
A large bumblebee visiting lush bright pinkish red rhododendron blooms, closeup
Fledged Phoebe singing on top of an apple trees dead limb. Grey day
Two willow branches sticking out of a water filled blue plastic barrel. Behind it a blossoming apple tree on a grey day
Some bleeding hearts, pink and dripping white, against a background of some white blossoming fruit trees, a blue sky an unmowed lawn with a few dandelions
White blossoms cover this sweet cherry tree. A large uprooted spruce tree lies fallen behind it
Close up of a little dog, black and tan markings with stunning tan eyebrows and getting a wee bit white around the puffy nose
Close up of 2 seed packs from Nature and Nurture Seeds: Amaranth ‘Fercita’, early edible white grains, multi-colored flowers and Quinoa ‘Red Head’ with red and pink seed heads, white edible seeds and leaves
A sapling surrounded by four rotting slices of trees, each around a foot in diameter. This in turn surrounded by wood chips.
Closeup of many sprouting weeping willow branches in a green plastic bucket 1/4 filled with water
Screenshot from permies.com for house for sale in 🇮🇪
Close up snapshot of the CO2 jump on a graph
Close up of an Espresso coffee in a stainless steel mug
Close up of a Bosworth Guzzler Maple Sap pump sitting on top of a piece of plywood with a pressure gauge connected to blue tubing
A rhododendron plant stripped bare of its leaves halfway up the plant. It sits in front of a cedar shake sided house with a window
A black and tan mixed breed dog with perked ears and an open mouth with big teeth is looking expectantly at you
The Dominator 5 by Reed Trimmer, storm chaser
A telephone pole with 6 white ibis on various wires that run off it. Blue sky. Palm trees below the phone lines. One ibis stand on the very top of the pole
A simple real time analysis snapshot from an app, showing decibel levels in red bars. The low end is breaking into the 50 db level
Huge solar array destroyed by hail
A young man carrying 12 frozen iguanas
A person is mowing their lawn as seen through a wooden fence. Only the mower is visible.
Weather spp snapshot from Castle Pines, Colorado at 71 F
6 raised beds covered in deep mulch, a white covered cattle panel green house behind them. Behind that some yellows from a couple maples, Norwegian pines, and a small shingle covered house
Some big fat yellow and pink apples on 2?white buckets, close up. Behind, the wooden cider strainer
A grey day along a tree lined field, a bald eagle swiftly soars between the giant maples. a few yellow leaves contrast the bright white tail feathers as she darts powerfully off behind the trees
A little black and brown dog sitting with a red life jacket in a pink kayak with a human behind her in a yellow life vest. the water is calm, deep greens along the distant shore, partially cloudy day
A close up of My little rescue rotty mix looking up at me on a blue tiled threshold by a screen door. My big feet in bone clogs and bare ankles
An American Chestnut branch of 5 leaves. The bottom 2 have turned yellow, sitting on a wooden table with one brown pod opened to show its fruit, and a pair of still green spikey chestnut pods next to it
Last of the cider apples, yellow and pink in an up close shot on the apple tree
A farm house, greenhouse and barn behind an Amish farmer mowing with his team. Blue sky. Some muted colors in the tree line behind the house
A big apple tree with a few apples left with a forested background. Very little color left on the trees. I wanted to catch the audio
A tiny brown tree frog in a cluster of green hazelnut seedling leaves
Garden rows, some bare, with marigolds, kale, amaranth, sunflowers zinnias and calendula. Under sheets peppers and eggplant. The row paths are hopelessly overgrown
A well shaped old crab apple tree covered in tiny yellow apples.
Close up holding a big beautiful Duchess apple, red blushed on a yellow apple. Clusters hang against a blue sky
A black plastic pond lined pond in an almost empty pond. Surrounded mostly by golden rod. A pile of stones in one end leads to an undersized bog filter in a 70 gallon tank. A small solar panel to run the pump sits on top
Closeup of a hand holding an immature bird
A path on the edge of the food forest. An 8’ deer fence frames golden rod. A plumb tree to the right, but no plumbs. That’s a 3 year old Honey Locust along the fence line. Blue sky. Tree line in the background
A tiny well formed little tree of chokecherry with red berries
3 very oddly twisted scrawny carrots on a tile background
Two fluorescent green tick remover tools. One large one small. Tied together with a piece of blue yarn.
Radar of eastern North America showing a low pressure comma storm moving off the East coast and up into Canada where its snow
A horse chestnut blossom that has just opened in sharp focus. 4 folded pedals below spikey green leaves nesting little clumps of tiny green chestnuts.
Screenshot of the Maple Sugar Book cover by Helen and Scott Nearing
A kitchen with 3 pots of syrup boiling, thermometers in the 2 on the stainless steel stove and one over the wood stove
Maple syrup evaporator with a stainless steel tank on one side and a small cart with wood for the fire on the other side. Steam is rising
view through the refractometer reading 3%
Picture of a portable refractometer
Quick pan up from a loaded fire box ready to burn in a maple syrup evaporator. Goes to the empty and cleaned pans
Inside the tiny sugar house with an evaporator at full boil. Black and tan dog licks her lips at the end
Small vacuum pump sucking sap inside blue tubing. In the sugar woods. A big old dead maple anchors the system