How to Nature Journal in Five Steps
Are you just getting started with nature journaling? Or have you returned from a break in nature journaling and want some tips on starting again? Check out Marley Peifer’s easy 5-step guide to nature journaling: Take out your journal and get down your metadata! Start observing something and drawing right away. Don’t wait! Pro-tip: turn […]
What is your primary nature journaling language? Part 1
Words, pictures, and numbers. Do you feel like one of these speaks to you more than the others? Does one flow with relative ease onto your page, while the others stress or confound you? Keep reading if you want to discover your nature journaling “love language”, and how to increase your fluency in each. WORDS […]
Nature Journaling Educators
How does one become a nature journaling educator? And how can we support our educators to keep doing what they’re doing? Please join this episode of the Nature Journal Show where Marley interviews three other educators – Bethan Burton, Melinda Nakagawa, and Amaya Shreeve – who like him are on Patreon. Find out how Bethan, […]
Native Plants Restoration and Nature Journaling
Native plants restoration and other types of habitat and ecological restoration are essential work these days. Like humans, plants and other animals need homes to live in – homes that are being degraded worldwide at an alarming rate. In this conversation, Marley and I talk about how nature journaling can be combined with plant restoration practices […]
Nature Journaling Ecosystem Change with Robin Carlson
Do you have the consistency to go to the same place again and again and observe how it changes? What will you notice as you watch a place change over time? Let Robin Carlson inspire you – she has been nature journaling ecosystem change at Stebbins Cold Canyon, a place that has been twice burned […]
Nature Journaling Australia: LIVE with Paula Peeters
What makes nature journaling in Australia so different from everywhere else? Find out from Paula Peeters, a nature journaler, teacher, writer, scientist, and conservationist from Australia. In this episode of the Nature Journal Show, Marley interviews Paula about her books, different ways of describing a place, the ideal nature journal outing, resources for Aussie nature […]
Best Books for Nature Journaling
What is your favorite nature journaling related book? Do you use books that don’t have ‘nature journaling’ explicitly in the title? Join Marley and me for this episode of “The Nature Journal Show” where we share the best books for nature journaling. The subject of nature journaling is quite the multi-disciplinary one. Natural history, ecology, art […]
Art Toolkit Unboxing and Review on The Nature Journal Show
In this week’s video, Marley tests out a new field kit from Art Toolkit, a supplies company created by Maria Coryell-Martin. Marley previously interviewed Maria on the Nature Journal Show about her expeditionary art. Checking Out the New Tools After looking through his knife collection and selecting a huge cleaver, Marley opens the package. Inside […]
Using My Words at International Nature Journaling Week
7 days. 7 themes. When Bethan Burton announced the dates for the International Nature Journaling Week she created, I could hardly wait! This was my first year attending it, and it left my naturalist soul humming. First of all, Bethan made it so that the week was information-dense without being overwhelming; 2 workshops a day […]
Birding Homework (live episode)
Do you ever give yourself nature journaling homework? In this live episode of the Nature Journal Show, Marley shows us how to use birding homework to make us better nature journalers. Follow along! You will need: your nature journal, a writing utensil of your choice, a bird guide book, and your computer. “Whether you’re in […]