Sacred Roots Apothecary

03/11/2026

Food for thought

03/10/2026

Hmmmmm

03/10/2026

Beautiful 😍

03/07/2026

The Iowa DNR does a good job at managing roadsides and mowing late in the season to allow fauna to mature and move on to a larger and safer habitat.

03/05/2026

This plant has its own metabolic process to generate heat?! Thats so cool!!!

Right now, in wet woods across the Eastern US, a plant called Skunk Cabbage is generating its own body heat — up to 70°F above the surrounding air temperature — and MELTING through frozen ground from below.

This isn't photosynthesis. This is thermogenesis. The same process your body uses to stay warm.

- Skunk Cabbage is one of the only plants on Earth that produces metabolic heat
- It burns stored starch at a rate comparable to a small mammal
- Its internal temperature holds steady at 68-77°F even when the outside air is 15°F
- It pushes through snow and frozen soil by literally melting a tunnel from underneath
- The heat volatilizes its chemicals — producing a rotting-meat smell that attracts the first flies of the season

Those early flies crawl inside the hooded spathe, get warm, pick up pollen, and carry it to the next furnace down the creek.

While you're still wearing a winter coat, this plant is running a heated pollination station in a frozen swamp.

March's first bloom doesn't wait for warmth. It makes its own.

03/03/2026

Humanity first 💚🦌🌿✨️

03/03/2026

Some of my favorite sounds

03/03/2026

Great alternatives to popular invasive species

11/21/2025

I cant not share this with everyone. For those of us interested in learning about ecology and environmental science, here is a free learning app to help male learning the subject easier. Its called Environmental Ecology. Here's a link to it from Google Play.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.softecks.environmentalecology