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Jessi Zabarsky
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We did our first burn of the season yesterday!
The side mirror of a Kabota vehicle, showing fire in the grass behind it. A prairie/dunes site at dusk, fire in the middle ground. Four figures are around it A prairie/dunes site with a tree, at dusk. Low fire is lighting it up Fire, sparks, and smoke at night in the prairie/dunes
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Me, watching a show entirely unrelated to ecology:

Is that phrag??
It IS phrag, UHG!!
A frame from The Umbrella Academy, featuring a lot of phrag, aka phragmites, a reed grass that’s very invasive and nearly impossible to get rid of in the Midwest
October 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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I found these fish? Bones? at a park, anyone here a Fish Bones Pro and know what the holes are about??
( tw for trypophobia)
Bones with strange, regular holes bored/chewed/magicked into them, on a countertop Same bones but their back side, much more normal and less scary
October 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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This time of year I go feral for seeds and free fruit and all my tables look like this
A tabletop covered in small pears and piles of different native plant seeds
September 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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@fredmakes.bsky.social I’ve been meaning to tell you, the native honeysuckle you gave me came up and is doing great! I just gotta figure out where to transplant it ✨
Sprouts of a Midwest-native honeysuckle plant
August 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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💚
A four panel comic in white, dark green, and a lighter green, about loving my outdoor job a lot.
July 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Well!! As usual, I had a super busy June, with the start of my work season, two comics shows, taking care of my gardens, and other life things! I’m back and (slowly) catching up.
A four panel comic in white, dark & lighter green. About food storage, sorta
July 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Me n @cathygjohn.bsky.social are at a pierogie shop and there is a PIEROGIE SHOP CAT
Photo of a cat tummy Petting pierogie cat!!!
June 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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A2CAF IN Ann Arbor, at the downtown library, today and tomorrow! Debuting a new tablecloth for the first time in over a decade!!
A photo of my comics and etc, displayed on a table
June 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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New things I’ll have this weekend at A2CAF! I’ve got a page in this super cute washi-themed zine put together by the Washi Station , and I finally printed the third year of Weekly Bun comics!! 😘
A photo of my hand holding two small books, one a zine called “We Love Washi” and the other a comic with a big round bunny face on the cover, puckering up to give you a smooch (Weekly Bun Life Vol 3)
June 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Gonna wriggle under your garden gate >:3c
A four panel comic about belonging in green spaces everywhere, in pink and brown
June 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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I’m not saying participating in your local community guarantees fancy snacks, but I *have* gotten some pretty good snacks out of it
A four panel comic in brown, pink, and white about going to a meeting about a park and getting free cheesecake
May 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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🥔
A four panel comic about growing potatoes and learning forever, in pink/white/brown
May 14, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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I truly believe we could fix so many problems if the world wasn’t making us all so dang tired
A four panel comic about the things people throw away and why
May 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Even when I try to write about fascism I write about plants
A four panel comic about human and plant time scales
May 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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I’m not telling ANYBODY where my parents live 😒
A four panel comic about seeing spring native plants
April 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Plant people can be so generous 💛
A four panel comic about getting free seedling flats and dreaming of many plants
April 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Riches everywhere 👀
A four panel comic about repurposing trash
April 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Bonus baby native plant pics! Planted last year, coming back up in the last week 💛
Glade mallow baby! Figwort baby! Great St. John’s wort baby! Cardinal flower baby!
April 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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None of us are powerless!
A four panel comic about feeling powerful when I can make tangible positive changes
April 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Birds and flowers too, I guess
A four panel comic about all the regular signs of spring
March 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Up and at em
A four panel comic about wanting to expand my personal happiness into the wider world
March 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Shout out to libraries, library workers, and library kids!!
A four panel comic about talking to a graphic novel club of kids at a library
March 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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My sibling drives a cauliflower car bc they eat a LOT of it
March 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Stop being so wonderful I’ve got chores to do!!
A four panel comic about knowing so many amazing people
February 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM