Julia Skinner, PhD
@bookishjulia.bsky.social
Author, fermenter, food historian, writing coach, Library Science PhD, culinary educator, forager, maker of everyday magic.
Wrote Our Fermented Lives.
Agent: Ekus Group
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Wrote Our Fermented Lives.
Agent: Ekus Group
linktr.ee/juliaskinner
The northern lights are a reminder that the world around us is pure magic, just waiting for us to wake up and take notice.
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The northern lights are a reminder that the world around us is pure magic, just waiting for us to wake up and take notice.
Reposted by Julia Skinner, PhD
What historians see when people claim AI is solving mysteries that have baffled historians for years.
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
What historians see when people claim AI is solving mysteries that have baffled historians for years.
WOW y’all my little curiosity-driven, playful online culinary school is ONE YEAR OLD today!
Thank you for all the support, for everyone who’s signed up for a class or taken a private lesson or shared my work with someone they love. Here’s to another amazing year of the Culinary Curiosity School!
Thank you for all the support, for everyone who’s signed up for a class or taken a private lesson or shared my work with someone they love. Here’s to another amazing year of the Culinary Curiosity School!
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
WOW y’all my little curiosity-driven, playful online culinary school is ONE YEAR OLD today!
Thank you for all the support, for everyone who’s signed up for a class or taken a private lesson or shared my work with someone they love. Here’s to another amazing year of the Culinary Curiosity School!
Thank you for all the support, for everyone who’s signed up for a class or taken a private lesson or shared my work with someone they love. Here’s to another amazing year of the Culinary Curiosity School!
Buy from a small biz + author this year:
Books on food + history!
bookshop.org/lists/my-boo...
Culinary classes + private lessons! Culinarycuriosityschool.com
Creativity support + holistic coaching (and also classes)!
Rootsandbranches.site
Great alone or bundled! DM me with any questions
Books on food + history!
bookshop.org/lists/my-boo...
Culinary classes + private lessons! Culinarycuriosityschool.com
Creativity support + holistic coaching (and also classes)!
Rootsandbranches.site
Great alone or bundled! DM me with any questions
My books
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
bookshop.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Buy from a small biz + author this year:
Books on food + history!
bookshop.org/lists/my-boo...
Culinary classes + private lessons! Culinarycuriosityschool.com
Creativity support + holistic coaching (and also classes)!
Rootsandbranches.site
Great alone or bundled! DM me with any questions
Books on food + history!
bookshop.org/lists/my-boo...
Culinary classes + private lessons! Culinarycuriosityschool.com
Creativity support + holistic coaching (and also classes)!
Rootsandbranches.site
Great alone or bundled! DM me with any questions
Collage-making evening
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Collage-making evening
Time for your occasional reminder that I’m a fermentation-loving, food preserving witch who does energy work, herbalism, + foraging AND ALSO is Queer + has a PhD and believes in science + human rights.
If that sounds like you, hi and welcome! Not your thing? I trust you to find the door.
If that sounds like you, hi and welcome! Not your thing? I trust you to find the door.
November 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Time for your occasional reminder that I’m a fermentation-loving, food preserving witch who does energy work, herbalism, + foraging AND ALSO is Queer + has a PhD and believes in science + human rights.
If that sounds like you, hi and welcome! Not your thing? I trust you to find the door.
If that sounds like you, hi and welcome! Not your thing? I trust you to find the door.
🎶it’s that time again🎶
November 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🎶it’s that time again🎶
Reposted by Julia Skinner, PhD
Once again: Washington State, *by law* allows you the right to create native pollinator habitat on your property, no matter what local codes or HOA rules may say otherwise. I supported Skinner's yard. You can too.
Last call for support letters!
The City of Atlanta has decided to give me a court date, accusing me of violating code because I have a yard full of edible and wild plants as opposed to a monoculture lawn.
Let me know if you want a letter template! Thank you for your support
The City of Atlanta has decided to give me a court date, accusing me of violating code because I have a yard full of edible and wild plants as opposed to a monoculture lawn.
Let me know if you want a letter template! Thank you for your support
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Once again: Washington State, *by law* allows you the right to create native pollinator habitat on your property, no matter what local codes or HOA rules may say otherwise. I supported Skinner's yard. You can too.
Reposted by Julia Skinner, PhD
Gardeners! 🌱 Why are “unsightly” dead stems of flowers dead leaf piles critical? Why does 15% of bare soil = gardening goals? To save climate-warmed, extinction-threatened native ground-/crevice-nesting native bees, butterflies and other critical insects. Support via link in her reply.
Last call for support letters!
The City of Atlanta has decided to give me a court date, accusing me of violating code because I have a yard full of edible and wild plants as opposed to a monoculture lawn.
Let me know if you want a letter template! Thank you for your support
The City of Atlanta has decided to give me a court date, accusing me of violating code because I have a yard full of edible and wild plants as opposed to a monoculture lawn.
Let me know if you want a letter template! Thank you for your support
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Gardeners! 🌱 Why are “unsightly” dead stems of flowers dead leaf piles critical? Why does 15% of bare soil = gardening goals? To save climate-warmed, extinction-threatened native ground-/crevice-nesting native bees, butterflies and other critical insects. Support via link in her reply.
Last call for support letters!
The City of Atlanta has decided to give me a court date, accusing me of violating code because I have a yard full of edible and wild plants as opposed to a monoculture lawn.
Let me know if you want a letter template! Thank you for your support
The City of Atlanta has decided to give me a court date, accusing me of violating code because I have a yard full of edible and wild plants as opposed to a monoculture lawn.
Let me know if you want a letter template! Thank you for your support
November 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Last call for support letters!
The City of Atlanta has decided to give me a court date, accusing me of violating code because I have a yard full of edible and wild plants as opposed to a monoculture lawn.
Let me know if you want a letter template! Thank you for your support
The City of Atlanta has decided to give me a court date, accusing me of violating code because I have a yard full of edible and wild plants as opposed to a monoculture lawn.
Let me know if you want a letter template! Thank you for your support
Timely shirt choice
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Timely shirt choice
Cork friends, where in/near the city do you go to sit and work? I love the library, but also pulling together a list of pubs, cafes, or other quiet spaces where I can curl up with a notebook or laptop and write.
November 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Cork friends, where in/near the city do you go to sit and work? I love the library, but also pulling together a list of pubs, cafes, or other quiet spaces where I can curl up with a notebook or laptop and write.
It’s a great time for Cat Couch
November 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It’s a great time for Cat Couch
If you’re looking for employee wellness or personal development, come talk to me!
I’ll come up with a program (or series, anything from private 1:1 support to group workshops) that fits your budget and your needs!
Email me: julia@rootsandbranches.space
Or look at these links for examples: 👇🏼
I’ll come up with a program (or series, anything from private 1:1 support to group workshops) that fits your budget and your needs!
Email me: julia@rootsandbranches.space
Or look at these links for examples: 👇🏼
November 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
If you’re looking for employee wellness or personal development, come talk to me!
I’ll come up with a program (or series, anything from private 1:1 support to group workshops) that fits your budget and your needs!
Email me: julia@rootsandbranches.space
Or look at these links for examples: 👇🏼
I’ll come up with a program (or series, anything from private 1:1 support to group workshops) that fits your budget and your needs!
Email me: julia@rootsandbranches.space
Or look at these links for examples: 👇🏼
Same
November 1, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Same
Reposted by Julia Skinner, PhD
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
Halloween/Samhain special: comment a favorite autumn food you enjoy, and I’ll pull a card for you from The Fermentation Oracle on your theme for the next season.
Rather than tipping me (though, thank you and you can do that too if you want), please donate to Umi Feeds or @acfb
Links below!
Rather than tipping me (though, thank you and you can do that too if you want), please donate to Umi Feeds or @acfb
Links below!
October 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Halloween/Samhain special: comment a favorite autumn food you enjoy, and I’ll pull a card for you from The Fermentation Oracle on your theme for the next season.
Rather than tipping me (though, thank you and you can do that too if you want), please donate to Umi Feeds or @acfb
Links below!
Rather than tipping me (though, thank you and you can do that too if you want), please donate to Umi Feeds or @acfb
Links below!
Are you a passionate, intuitive creative looking for support? Here are a few ways I can help right now:
🔮Career/Shift: An energetic and meditative playground for exploring transition and mapping the path ahead.
🔮Hawthorn: A space for seasoned creatives to fall back in love with their work
🧵
🔮Career/Shift: An energetic and meditative playground for exploring transition and mapping the path ahead.
🔮Hawthorn: A space for seasoned creatives to fall back in love with their work
🧵
October 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Are you a passionate, intuitive creative looking for support? Here are a few ways I can help right now:
🔮Career/Shift: An energetic and meditative playground for exploring transition and mapping the path ahead.
🔮Hawthorn: A space for seasoned creatives to fall back in love with their work
🧵
🔮Career/Shift: An energetic and meditative playground for exploring transition and mapping the path ahead.
🔮Hawthorn: A space for seasoned creatives to fall back in love with their work
🧵
I help writers build routines, which helps them find time to write books.
I help writers build in peace and ritual around their writing time, which helps them be in the headspace to write books.
(Or articles, or whatever else you dream of writing)
I help writers build in peace and ritual around their writing time, which helps them be in the headspace to write books.
(Or articles, or whatever else you dream of writing)
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I help writers build routines, which helps them find time to write books.
I help writers build in peace and ritual around their writing time, which helps them be in the headspace to write books.
(Or articles, or whatever else you dream of writing)
I help writers build in peace and ritual around their writing time, which helps them be in the headspace to write books.
(Or articles, or whatever else you dream of writing)
Took myself out to dinner; decided to put on a nice dress
October 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Took myself out to dinner; decided to put on a nice dress
Just having daily shoulder time with Little Okra
October 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Just having daily shoulder time with Little Okra
In the 80s, my mom was asked to be a bridesmaid, and soon began begging the bride to change the processional song, but she refused, saying it was the most beautiful song she’d ever heard.
So the wedding party had to walk down the aisle to an instrumental version of…Send In The Clowns.
So the wedding party had to walk down the aisle to an instrumental version of…Send In The Clowns.
October 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
In the 80s, my mom was asked to be a bridesmaid, and soon began begging the bride to change the processional song, but she refused, saying it was the most beautiful song she’d ever heard.
So the wedding party had to walk down the aisle to an instrumental version of…Send In The Clowns.
So the wedding party had to walk down the aisle to an instrumental version of…Send In The Clowns.
As we start to move into holiday shopping season (somehow, already)…
Here’s your reminder that shaming small business owners for writing sales posts and for selling their wares is a bad look.
You don’t snap at the grocery store for running ads, why get mad at a small biz for doing the same?
Here’s your reminder that shaming small business owners for writing sales posts and for selling their wares is a bad look.
You don’t snap at the grocery store for running ads, why get mad at a small biz for doing the same?
October 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
As we start to move into holiday shopping season (somehow, already)…
Here’s your reminder that shaming small business owners for writing sales posts and for selling their wares is a bad look.
You don’t snap at the grocery store for running ads, why get mad at a small biz for doing the same?
Here’s your reminder that shaming small business owners for writing sales posts and for selling their wares is a bad look.
You don’t snap at the grocery store for running ads, why get mad at a small biz for doing the same?
As a food media person, this is the kind of content I desire and expect to see more of in my corner of the internet
pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:
October 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
As a food media person, this is the kind of content I desire and expect to see more of in my corner of the internet
My next book, Essential Food Preserving, is available for preorder (comes out in May)!
It's rooted in my firm belief that food preservation is a practice rooted in abundance, community, and play. And one that fits into the equipment, budget, and time you have.
bookshop.org/a/103396/978...
It's rooted in my firm belief that food preservation is a practice rooted in abundance, community, and play. And one that fits into the equipment, budget, and time you have.
bookshop.org/a/103396/978...
Essential Food Preserving: The Comprehensive Guide to Canning, Freezing, Drying, and Fermenting Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, Nuts, Beans, Meat, Dairy, and Eggs
The Comprehensive Guide to Canning, Freezing, Drying, and Fermenting Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, Nuts, Beans, Meat, Dairy, and Eggs
bookshop.org
October 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
My next book, Essential Food Preserving, is available for preorder (comes out in May)!
It's rooted in my firm belief that food preservation is a practice rooted in abundance, community, and play. And one that fits into the equipment, budget, and time you have.
bookshop.org/a/103396/978...
It's rooted in my firm belief that food preservation is a practice rooted in abundance, community, and play. And one that fits into the equipment, budget, and time you have.
bookshop.org/a/103396/978...