Who is watching the demise of the northern spotted owls? The northern spotted owl is the key species that ignited change and the protection of over 6 million acres of old growth forest in the northwest. In the 1970's the "Spotted Owl Wars" ensued between environmental...
When we saw The Red Dress in person we were in awe, we were excited and we said, "WOW! WoW! and Wow!!!" My husband and I spent at least three hours in the exhibit. At one point he declared, "I have counted nine bees!" The stories are emotional. The embroidery is...
You love fashion, I love fashion, yet fashion is on the top 10 list of most polluting industries world wide. So how are you supposed to feel good about that? Hey, at least you care, or you wouldn't be reading this right now. Sustainable style is about more than where...
These ain't your basic mushroom printed T-shirts. Hand painted mushrooms come to life as stuffed appliques. Snails crawl across your shoulder. Spores glisten in the moonlight as moths fly by. A sciarid fly lands on a mushroom cap.Wear an ecosystem on your sleeve.Or...
2023 HolidayCraft Market November 11 & 12, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Southern Vermont Art's Center Holiday Market Earth Bitch will be in Manchester, Vermont at the Southern Vermont Art's Center November 11 & 12. We will be there selling our wildlife T-shirts, art...
Meet Tara Lynn Scheidet March 30,2023 We recently connected with Tara Lynn Scheidet and have shared our conversation below. Tara Lynn, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to hear about when you first realized...
Butterflies are diurnal creatures, while most moths are awake at night. Not all moths follow this rule however, which isn’t surprising given the fact that there are over 160,000 different species of moths
I spent a weekend with a lively group of mushroom nerds in Julie Beeler’s class, Mycology & Color: A Chromatic Universe of Mushroom Dyes. After two full days of mushroom science our brains were full, yet we didn’t want the class to end.
Back in the Studio- I collected a few specimens from the woods to begin working on an Earth Bitch Jacket dedicated to endangered mushrooms. Deforestation, fertilizer run off and unknown, unrecorded, un-researched circumstances are all responsible for the decline of...
November 2020 I set off into the woods to study fungi. I was pleasantly surprised by the diversity of mushrooms growing on such a cold day in November, in Vermont. Once I discovered a species and started to take a closer look I forgot about how cold my fingers and...