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Seed farm, Native plant nursery, Botany, Pennsylvania Piedmont ecoregion www.hungryhookfarm.com

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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sidewalk Susan at the Indian Steps Museum, Airville, PA.
Brown eyed Susan growing in a sidewalk crack.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our response to the State Department using Smokey last night.
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PA Environment Digest, By David E. Hess, Former PA DEP Secretary @paenvironmentnews.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader Guest Essay: Will Pennsylvania’s Bog Turtles Survive The President’s Administration? - By Ted Williams, Outdoor Writers Association Of America www.timesleader.com/opinion/1760...
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Opinion: Will Pennsylvania’s Bog Turtles Survive the Trump administration?
<p>On Sept. 14, the Trump administration enforced a rule that ensures bog turtle extinction. Multiple lawsuits to block the rule are underway.</p>
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The guy putting out door hanger ads for the Republican candidate for PA Senate, Tom Jones, just spit his tobacco chaw in my flower bed as he walked away. Classy. @reptomjones.
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
What is going on with all the misspelled and omitted words on posts lately? Is anyone else noticing it?
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
XXL cat #sphinxdrupiferarum #wildcherrysphinx
Wild cherry sphinx caterpillar crawling on a human hand
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
These flats of Swamp milkweed belong to the Monarchs now. #monarchbutterfly
Monarch caterpillars eating the leaves of Swamp milkweed.
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is her happy face.
An orange tabby cat staring at the camera.
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Looks delicate, acts tough.
Pink flowers in an umbel of Nodding onion (Allium cernuum)Hundreds of Nodding onion plants (Allium cernuum ) growing in a field
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillar making a chrysalis on the grill cover is the perfect excuse for not cooking this week.
Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillar attaches itself to a black grill cover.
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Wavy hair grass (Avenella flexuosa) catching some sun on Lower Bear Island in the Susquehanna River. This grass can be easily overlooked until it blooms, then it is a stunner.
Wavy hair grass with arching seedheads growing in rock ledges along the Susquehanna River.
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Today's sermon is from Jack. (Arisaema triphyllum)
Spathe and spadix of Jack-in-the-pulpit.
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PA Environment Digest, By David E. Hess, Former PA DEP Secretary @paenvironmentnews.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Allegheny Front: President To Eliminate US Forest Service Research And Close 4 Facilities In Pennsylvania www.alleghenyfront.org/trump-cuts-f...
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Trump to eliminate U.S. Forest Service research, and close four facilities in Pennsylvania
The President’s budget eliminates funding for the agency’s research, and a USDA reorganization plan closes 57 of 77 Forest Service research sites.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/05/2026
Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. scim.ag/4tsDqRr
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After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school
Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Smallflower phacelia (Phacelia dubia) in the seed plot is loaded with hundreds of tiny bees that you will just have to imagine are there, as the picture doesn't do them justice!
A flower bed full of white petaled Smallflower phacelia.
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PA Environment Digest, By David E. Hess, Former PA DEP Secretary @paenvironmentnews.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Spring Native Plant Sale May 16 www.hawkmountain.org/events/sprin...
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Today's ground cover tip is brought to you by Common blue violet (Viola sororia).
Blue and purple flowers of Common blue violet. Blue and purple flowers of Common blue violet.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/04/2026
“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”
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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Lyre-leaved rockcress (Arabidopsis lyrata) in one of our seed-increase plots. Last night's soaking rain did not dim their shine. 💎
A large patch of Lyre-leaved rockcress (Arabidopsis lyrata) with white bell-shaped blooms.
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Every year it's obligatory that I take a photo of the Marsh marigolds (Caltha palustris) blooming on the edge of the goldfish pond. I'll soon be able to do some phenology tracking.
A backyard pond with goldfish and yellow blooms on the Marsh marigold plants
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
One of the cheeriest winter annuals, Yellow fumewort (Corydalis flavula) is blooming in south central Pennsylvania.
Yellow blooms and gray green foliage of Yellow fumewort (Corydalis flavula).
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PA Environment Digest, By David E. Hess, Former PA DEP Secretary @paenvironmentnews.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
DCNR: Since 2023, US Bureau Of Economic Analysis Data Shows PA Outdoor Recreation Economy Grew By 21%, Added 12,000 Jobs [PaEN] tinyurl.com/3j5dy5wx
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gray, spelled g r a y @grayherndon.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This study is from 2018, but I only just learned about it. Nothing surprising here really, but it’s upsetting nonetheless. As someone said, add in lawnmowers, leaf blowers… #pollinators
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Traffic Noise Makes Caterpillars' Hearts Beat Faster
The ongoing racket may interfere with the larvae’s response to stress
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I hugged a tree today.
Hiker hugging the base of a Coastal Redwood tree.
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Big Lots has sold a warehouse in Tremont Township on Rausch Creek Rd, Pennsylvania to the feds for an ICE detention facility, according to the Republican Herald. #pennsylvania #schuylkillcounty
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PA Environment Digest, By David E. Hess, Former PA DEP Secretary @paenvironmentnews.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Wildlife For Everyone Foundation: Game Commission Seedlings for Schools Program Starts Accepting Orders Feb. 2 [PaEN] tinyurl.com/4akym2sz
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The new seed display rack has been approved by the supervisor of feline QC.
A wooden seed display rack and an orange tabby cat
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Sabrina Fernandes @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
The light returns. The Winter Solstice brings warmth, light and the promise of spring. #wintersolstice
Sunrise over a snow covered meadow.
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
"Billionaire" by the Flying Vees may be the best new holiday song I've heard this year.
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PA Environment Digest, By David E. Hess, Former PA DEP Secretary @paenvironmentnews.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Eels Made A Comeback In The Susquehanna River, But Most Die As They Migrate South To Spawn www.bayjournal.com/news/fisheri...
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Eels have made a comeback in the Susquehanna, but most die as they migrate south to spawn
For an eel in the Susquehanna River, it’s a long swim to the Sargasso Sea out in the Atlantic Ocean, where it was born and where it ultimately should return
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The red pedicels and peduncles of Arrowwood viburnum contrast nicely with the blue fruits. #viburnumdentatum
A photo of the infructescence of Arrowwood viburnum with blue fruits and red peduncles
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PA Environment Digest, By David E. Hess, Former PA DEP Secretary @paenvironmentnews.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
PennLive Guest Essay: PA Electric Ratepayers Will Foot The Bill From Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Restart, While Microsoft A.I. Data Centers Get The Power - By Eric Epstein, Three Mile Island Alert www.pennlive.com/opinion/2025...
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Pennsylvania ratepayers will foot the bill from Three Mile Island restart, while Microsoft gets the power | Opinion
Restarting a half-century old, disused reactor that has sat idle for eight years is fraught with unknowns and risks.
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PA Environment Digest, By David E. Hess, Former PA DEP Secretary @paenvironmentnews.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Help Wanted: Manada Conservancy Executive Director [PaEN] tinyurl.com/4u3pn4zz
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
In Virginia, the governor and attorney general races are especially important. In Pennsylvania, remember to vote YES on the retention of the Supreme Court justices on the ballot. In California, vote YES on Proposition 50.
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PA Environment Digest, By David E. Hess, Former PA DEP Secretary @paenvironmentnews.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Pennsylvania Wilds: PA Wilds Kicks Off Holiday Shopping Season With Online Makers Market Oct. 25 www.pawildscenter.org/blog/2025-ma...
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Human exceptionalism began when we stopped seeing ourselves as part of the food web. Agriculture gave us control, then the illusion of superiority. Every species that outruns its limits believes it’s invincible—until it’s not. phys.org/news/2025-10...
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Human exceptionalism is at the root of the ecological crisis, claims evolutionary biologist
In the grand story of evolution, the crowning human distinction is our big brain. But our large heads have been slow to recognize a less admirable trait of Homo sapiens—self-centeredness.
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Purple lovegrass and Tall thoroughwort growing on waste rock from an abandoned mine. #eragrostisspectabilis #eupatoriumaltissimum
Purple lovegrass and Tall thoroughwort growing on waste rock from an abandoned mine.
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PA Environment Digest, By David E. Hess, Former PA DEP Secretary @paenvironmentnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Utility Dive: US Dept. Of Energy Cancels $7.6 Billion In Clean Energy Project Grants In States That Voted Against President tinyurl.com/4w6za8m3
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DOE cancels $7.6B in clean energy awards in states that voted against Trump
“Our democracy is badly broken when a president can illegally suspend projects for Blue states in order to punish his political enemies,” said Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
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PA Environment Digest, By David E. Hess, Former PA DEP Secretary @paenvironmentnews.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Inside Climate News: Shale Gas Was Supposed To Lower PA Electric Bills, Instead They’re Higher Than Ever And About To Get Worse [Due To LNG Gas Exports, A.I. Data Center Demand] tinyurl.com/mvza6sct
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
An American lotus #nelumbolutea colony covers acres of water in the part of the Susquehanna River known as the Conejohela flats--an area once home to thriving Native Nations tribes.
American lotus with huge circular leaves and yellow flowers growing in the Susquehanna River.
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PA Environment Digest, By David E. Hess, Former PA DEP Secretary @paenvironmentnews.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Morning Call Guest Essay: Recycling Is Key To A Stronger PA Economy, Environmental Future - By Darlene J. Robbins, Northeast PA Manufacturers www.mcall.com/2025/08/27/y...
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Your View: Recycling is key to a stronger Pa. economy, environmental future
Opinion: We need to start looking at end-of-life plastics as commodities
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
insideclimatenews.org/news/2408202...
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The Trump Administration Dismisses the Endangered Species List as ‘Hotel California.’ But There’s Far More to the Story - Inside Climate News
A small percentage of species protected by the law have ever recovered, but an even smaller fraction have gone extinct. With all the threats they face, including long-shrinking federal support, that’s...
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
We know a few things about grasses (and sedges and rushes) 😁
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Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 16/08/2025
Stand up for your public lands.
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The seed capsules of Eastern smooth beardtongue #penstemonlaevigatus are stunning hues of plum and merlot right now. Manheim, Pennsylvania.
Plum-colored seed capsules of Eastern smooth beardtongue.
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
An oversized Pearl crescent? Nope--a Silvery checkerspot #chlosynenycteis hanging around the Purple flowered raspberry #rubusodoratus and Blue waxweed #cupheaviscosissima this morning. Bainbridge, PA.
Silvery checkerspot butterfly perching on a Purple flowered raspberry leaf.
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Nature connectedness has dropped 60% since 1800. Hard to feel connected when: 1️⃣ Nature is gone. 2️⃣ Wildlife is gone. 3️⃣ The planet is packed with people. Without reversing all three, “policy change” is just a nice thought experiment. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds
Prof Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies
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PA Environment Digest, By David E. Hess, Former PA DEP Secretary @paenvironmentnews.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Chesapeake Bay Journal: The Price Of A.I. - How Is A.I. Impacting Energy Production And Prices? www.bayjournal.com/news/energy/...
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How is AI impacting energy production and prices?
This series explores the impacts of data centers on water supply, energy use, air quality and stormwater runoff in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Data centers house the computer systems that
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Hungry Hook Farm @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
You can't go wrong with a Joe Pye weed. #eutrochiumfistulosum #papilioglaucus
An Eastern Tiger swallowtail butterfly nectaring on Trumpet weed.
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