Sweet! There are some additional more specific arthropod communities (arachnids and myriapods off the top of my head) on mander.xyz if anyone is looking.
Invertebrate keeper, rock flipper, fungi fanatic, native plant enthusiast, and general nature lover.
Sweet! There are some additional more specific arthropod communities (arachnids and myriapods off the top of my head) on mander.xyz if anyone is looking.
I don’t have chooks anymore but joining to get my chicken fix vicariously, until I move and get some again of course!
Love it!
I’d definitely check to see what’s local to you, but I have a couple of ideas mostly relevant to my area in the Midwest, which is zone 6a/5b.
A lot of spring ephemerals like shade - trout lily, mayapple, trillium, and Jack in the pulpit come to mind. Wild geranium and ferns prefer shade.
A lot of shrubs are shade tolerant, including sweetfern, coralberry, spirea, gooseberry, bearberry, viburnum, mulberry, and pawpaw. In my area most of the understory is spicebush, sassafras, and dogwood.
Hope that gives you some inspiration!
There’s also !herpetology@mander.xyz for those interested!
Damn, I’ve been struggling this week with whether I should leave my PhD program with a master’s or keep toughing it out, and this really hit home for me.