A nice day for a hike to around the craters and to the top. Snow shoes required!

Looking out over (from left to right) Bifröst (town), Hreðavatn (lake), Grábrókarfell (crater), Hraunsnefsöxl (mountain peak). The mountain range in the background has been seeing increased seismic activity over the last couple of months.

Hey folks, here is a video I made detailing some of the ways that we're using "slash" - limbs from trees we've selectively removed - to make some of our forest gardens more productive in various ways. Piped was giving me issues so the canonical youtube is linked

Tl;dw :

Down in our woods there is considerably more light reaching the forest floor this year. Some of that is due to storm damage that took down or killed several large pines, but another part is due to us removing a number of American Beech. The Beech is over represented in our woods and casts a large amount of shade, and many Forest Management Plans in our region begin with removing these to release light to the forest floor.

Because of the abundance of materials from removing these trees, we're able to use the various parts of the limbs to accomplish several important stewardship tasks - mulching, building brush piles, and collecting round poles for infrastructure improvements. This contrasts with chop and drop practice

Canonical youtube link here

Hey folks, hope you don't mind me sharing this. We had some pretty good results from this and it felt like a good way to reuse some nursery pots that the supplier wouldn't take back. I'd recommend this to anyone who's looking to propagate their plants via stool layering.

For those who aren't familiar, stool layering is a method of plant propagation which uses a plant's own potential to form roots along buried portions of its stem. After a period spent forming the roots, the material used to bury the stems can be gently removed, revealing the sections which can now be transplanted as rooted cuttings. Not every plant appreciates this treatment, though, so it's worth checking for compatibility before attempting it.

Some of the families and individuals that have done well for us include Ribes (currant family), Sambucus (elderberry family), Lonicera ceruleae (haskap), and Lyceum barbarum (Goji).

sya

cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/623917328555745099

'Tis the Season

Christmas decorations are already up in CVS. The War on Thanksgiving never ends.

autumn #fall #sky #leaves

@crosspost@lemmy.crimedad.work

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Venus flytrap flowers [OC]

My Venus flytrap has sprouted a long stem with some pretty little flowers at the end. The purpose of the long stem is to help keep pollinators away from the traps.

venusflytrap #macro #flower #carnivorousplants

@carnivorousplants@lemmy.world

It was always a lovely sight to view.

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[OC] A shell on a rock.

Just a macro shot of a seashell.

macro #shore #newhavenharbor #seashell

@pics@lemmy.world
@loren@flipping.rocks

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[OC] Hey.

crab #shore #macro

@animals@lemmy.ml

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[OC] A little jumping spider.

I remember when I was trying to take this photo the spider jumped on the lens and I might have screamed.

spider #jumpingspider #arachnid #macro #fediphoto365 #pixelfed365

@bugmenagerie@possumpat.io

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/974261

cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/584798333443805438

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Macro shot of a honey bee crawling on the petal of a purple crocus. The bee is loaded with grains of pollen.

[OC] Honey bee on a crocus.
This shot is from the spring.
bees #spring #crocus #pollen #pollinator #newjersey #macro #fediphoto365 [#pixelfed365](https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/discover/tags/pixe