I only have a daughter, no sons… but I do have these two very good boys

Hey, East Coast Peeps! In the next week or so I'm speaking at bookstores and libraries in Maryland, DC, Boston, and Connecticut to discuss The Earth Said Remember Me. Come say "Hi"

Feeling pretty good about this year’s onion harvest. 42 total, which I figure will last the family about 6 months

This is what happens when you leave your house for 10 days in the midst of the July growing season. Anyone have a good zucchini bread recipe?

OMG, it's happening! Today is the official publication date of my new book, The Earth Said Remember Me: How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet

Feeling pretty good about this year’s garlic harvest. 34 heads total. A soft neck called Inchelium red, the PNW’s indigenous garlic. (Truly, someone should assign me to write a piece about the fascinating backstory of this garlic variety)

Me? I’m making a declaration of inter-dependence

Sooo impressed with my friend @kiliiiyuyan.bsky.social new book (with @charlescmann.bsky.social ). It’s a thing of beauty! Kiliii and I will be in conversation July 18 in #Bellingham.

I have an immodest proposal for this whole #ReflectingPool fiasco: Let's rewild the Mall! Plant some sedges and reeds. Introduce a beaver family. Line the edge with pollinator-friendly perennials. We need *more* algae, not less. LFG!

My friends, we have reached peak ocean spray, aka cream bush, ironwood, Holodiscus discolor

Much gratitude to @billmckibben.bsky.social for giving The Earth Said Remember Me a shout out in his latest Substack. Appreciate it, Bill!

This chart, via @NOAA Fisheries, is a gut punch. The gray whale, once a symbol of wildlife recovery, is plummeting in numbers. They are, in a word, starving

Come One, Come All! Seriously: You're welcome to join me and friends and family for a good, old-fashioned, virtual book party on Monday, July 27. RSVP here: tinyurl.com/jasonsbookpa...

Spotted in the wild! A lovely capsule review of my forthcoming book from the good folks at Adventure Journal! “Want inspiration? Here it is.”

Happy #Solstice (it’s all down hill from here, folks)

I think I might have discovered a thing: it’s a standard bean and cheese burrito, only instead of black beans or pinto beans you use Bush’s Best Original Baked Beans. I’m calling my creation— wait for it!—the Trailer Park Quesadilla.

Psyched to have a big essay about the future of wilderness in the current issue of Trails Magazine featuring @stonemanning.bsky.social, @sierraclub.org, @conserveamerica.bsky.social, and Nature is Nonpartisan. Want to read it? subscribe today! trailsmag.net/products/sub...

It's getting real! Finally got my hands on the finished copies of my new book, The Earth Said Remember Me -->

I know it’s mostly voodoo… but I still plant by the moon as much as possible , and it sure is nice when a lunar cycle lines up so neatly with the date on the solar calendar

This weekend I think we reached Peak Washington. Truly, doesn’t get any better than this

Big props to this osprey for making a dual use out of the lighting infrastructure at the park

Final harvest of the spring spinach. This should be enough for a single serving, right? 🧐

From the annals of self promotion. Yesterday, Kirkus Reviews published their *Starred Review* of The Earth Said Remember Me. "An urgent manifesto about what it takes to hold onto memories of a livelier world ... his greatest tool against forgetting is language. Mark doesn't hold back."

Murder Most Fowl. I was awoken at dawn to commotion in the chicken run. No sign of breaking and entering, just these feathers about 15 yards from the coop. Eagle, I figure. Death from above.

This sticker I picked up somewhere along my journeys is my Love Language

This was the logical endpoint to where AI was headed, amirite? Basically, a gizmo to help you shop more, spend faster ...

I am normally a good indicator of prevailing environmental orthodoxy… but I’m sorry, I just can’t get behind No Mow May. In Western Washington? With an electric mower? By the end of the month I’d be looking to hire a guy with a hay baler!

Spring has sprung. Garden harvest of lettuces, arugula, radishes, Tokyo turnips, and green onions. #growityourself

A robin’s nest in a blooming lilac is, truly, peak #Spring

OK, so I guess this Strait of Hormuz closure is going to have a *really* long tail and impact quotidian elements of life -->