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Chloe MacLaren

@agent-sprout.bsky.social

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Plant (agro)ecologist 🌱🌾🌻☘️🌳🌼🌿 Working for SLU in Sweden 🇸🇪 Research on cropping systems in Europe and southern Africa 🌍 From New Zealand 🇳🇿

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Chloe MacLaren @agent-sprout.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Lovely view from a hilltop in Chipata, #Zambia. 🌱🌳🌽🐐🌍

A view of a landscape with a mosaic of crop fields and woodland, with a lake left of centre. Big puffy white clouds in a blue sky. Savannah sloping away in the foreground, small mountains along the horizon in the distance.

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Chloe MacLaren @agent-sprout.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

My neat rows of crops have turned into a jungle of sunflowers, maize and sorghum, with the understory dominated by pumpkins and cowpeas, with a bit of hibiscus poking out. Yellow sunflowers and pumpkin flowers in a mass of green leaves.

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Chloe MacLaren @agent-sprout.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Found this little guy guarding my room... 🐸💚🌍 #zambia

A small grey-green frog sitting on a silver door handle

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Chloe MacLaren @agent-sprout.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

In case anyone just needs a nice photo of a tree right now

A photo of a pleasingly symmetrical baobab tree in front of a view small brick buildings forming part of a small village in Sinda district, Zambia. Cloudy sky speckled with blue behind.

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Chloe MacLaren @agent-sprout.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Field season in Zambia! 🌾🌱🌦️📏 We're investigating whether different crop diversification options have different outcomes depending on the climate and farming system context.

A tidy plot of young soybean plants in rows, some maize in the foreground. Reddish soil in between. A white pick-up truck on a dirt road to the left. Trees and hills in the distance in front of a lightly cloudy sky.

A soybean intercrop establishing under maize plants. View from the soybean level, maize overhead.

Photo of a colleague taken down a maize row so he is half hidden behind overlapping leaves

Sunset of pinks, yellows, and grey's behind the silhouette of a tree

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Chloe MacLaren @agent-sprout.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Mixed crop plants in front of a brick wall. Sunflower, sorghum, legumes, hibiscus, and a pumpkin plant with big leaves curling along the front.

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Chloe MacLaren @agent-sprout.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

More fun things appearing in the garden now it's the rainy season 🍄🌱 #Harare #ecology

Two mushrooms in a lawn in the foreground, more mushrooms in the background in a partial fairy circle. Light brown mushrooms, a bit speckled, green grass.

A front-view of a trumpet-shaped flower hanging from a thin vine in front of blurry background vegetation. Flower has amazing marbled purple/white pattern on the petal surrounding the dark purple centre.

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Chloe MacLaren @agent-sprout.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

It is finally raining in Harare - and there are suddenly tiny frogs all over my door step 🐸💚

Close up of a very tiny frog, mottled brown in colour, next to the rough edge of a rubber doormat which looks like a wall in comparison to the tiny frog

The end of my finger next to a tiny frog the size of my fingernail

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Chloe MacLaren @agent-sprout.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

accidental garden art! 🌱

early growth of different plants in curving rows by a brick wall. each row is a different shade of green and has different leaf shapes - sunflowers, grasses, beans, groundnuts, rosella. the soil and wall are a soft brown.

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Chloe MacLaren @agent-sprout.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Mixed some leftover seed together for a legume cover crop for the garden 🌱

Beans and seeds of different colours mixed together

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