Field notes from the wild
Molly HelfendField notes from wild places, where ecology, plant knowledge, travel, and the human psyche meet.
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The stories I can, and cannot, tell from Gabon.
The first place Gabon put me was a plastic chair at border control in Libreville. I was hungover-feeling in the morning light, with no local cash, no French translation, and an officer who had no intention of waving me through until I produ...
The healthier I got, the less I packed
Two years ago, I packed for Angola. The assignment fell through, so the bag never left my house, but I remember what was in it. Backups for the backups. A small mobile apothecary. Powders, tinctures, protocols, contingencies for my continge...
Do plants have personalities?
My latest piece for BBC Wildlife is in the June issue, pages 86–87, with the online version linked here.
The question they handed me: do plants have personalities?
6 year old me sat straight up.
When I was young, I already knew the answ...
My favorite word is why
AKA: an incomplete list of things I need to understand before I die, ranked from deeply stupid to deeply unanswerable.
I was driving home from the ocean, when I caught myself wondering why dogs love us so much. Or why someone like me l...
What is the anthropause?
My latest piece for BBC Wildlife was published in the May issue on pg. 82 and online “What is the anthropause?”
And so, as usual, I thought I would take you through my mad scientist brain, in how the idea for this article came about.
I wa...
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Journalist, ecopsychologist, and ethnobotanist reporting from the field on the science of remembering we are nature, while sharing ecological knowledge through earth, story, and adventurous travel.
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