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Chloe MacLaren
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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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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.
March 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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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.
February 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Found this little guy guarding my room...
🐸💚🌍 #zambia
A small grey-green frog sitting on a silver door handle
February 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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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.
February 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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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
February 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Mixed crop plants in front of a brick wall. Sunflower, sorghum, legumes, hibiscus, and a pumpkin plant with big leaves curling along the front.
January 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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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.
January 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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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
December 30, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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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.
December 3, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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Mixed some leftover seed together for a legume cover crop for the garden 🌱
Beans and seeds of different colours mixed together
November 16, 2024 at 6:19 PM