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2024: Year in Review

Happy 2025! Apparently it’s time for another year in review. As I said in last year’s review, 2024 was going to be another year of pollination, in which I would write monthly posts on the topic of pollination. Well, clearly that didn’t happen. After two posts, I dropped the ball. That’s okay though. Another Year of Pollination will continue indefinitely. As it is, I essentially stole the name, Year of Pollination, from a podcast called Year of Polygamy, which after starting in January 2014, continues to put out episodes a decade later. A “year,” as it turns out, can also be a period of indefinite length.

2024 wasn’t the most fun year I’ve ever had. I’m actually happy to see it go. Hoping for bigger and better things in the year to come. However, one very exciting piece of news came near the end of the year, which I hinted about in this post. The past couple of months have been a bit of a blur as I have been writing furiously about weeds for a book project that should come out sometime in 2026. Something to look forward to. It is focused specifically on the Pacific Northwest, so if there are any weeds-interested people in the area that would like to help out in some way with this project, please reach out.

The book will keep me busy for a good part of the year, so I don’t anticipate being able to post a whole lot more here than I have in the past couple of years. But I’ll see what I can do. Be in touch either way. All the social media links and ways to support Awkward Botany can be found on this link tree. Thank you, as always, for reading and nerding out about plants with me. See you in 2025!

Most of the posts this year were part of ongoing series. So, here they are:

Winter Trees and Shrubs

Another Year of Pollination

Randomly Selected Botanical Terms

Book Review

Weeds of Boise

Things really took a turn in 2024. Let’s see what 2025 brings…
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New Weeds Project, etc.

When you make yourself the weeds guy, and the word gets out that you’re the guy to go to when it comes to weeds, invitations and inquiries start coming your way. Usually it’s just someone asking you to identify a weed or telling you how much they despise a particular plant for its weedy behaviors. Sometimes it’s writing a weeds-themed article or teaching a class about weeds. It can even be an invitation to go on a weeds walk and be interviewed for a television series. This time it’s something, perhaps, a bit bigger.

I won’t say too much about what the project is at this point. It’s a little too early in the process for the big reveal. However, I will say that it involves at least two things: weeds and the Pacific Northwest. That’s partly why I’m bringing this up.

Do you live in the Pacific Northwest? Would you be interested in talking about weeds sometime? If you’re reading this, and you think you might have some input on the subject, please let me know. You can get in touch using the contact form or by sending me a direct message on Instagram. I can give you more information at that point, and we can determine if there is a way you can help.

There will be more to come about this exciting new project in the near future. Meanwhile, my lack of posting, which you may or may not have noticed, is likely to continue for a while. Summers get pretty busy around here, and as much as I’d like to share more posts with you, it just doesn’t happen. The fact that I’m basically back in school for a couple semesters, along with this new opportunity that I’m not saying much about, has made it so that focusing on the blog isn’t getting much easier. But I’ll do what I can, and I’ll try to stay active on Instagram and other social media sites to (sort of) make up for it.

Thanks, as always, for your support, and thank you for putting up with this announcement about an upcoming and soon to be announced announcement.

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