About the Guild

The Hemiboreal Nature Guild is a nature journal club and learning collective.

Open to all skill levels, Hemiboreal is both a practice and a group: documenting seasonal changes, wildlife, and landscapes while fostering connection and creativity in nature.

This space loosely connects nature enthusiasts exploring urban spaces, hemiboreal forests, and coastal ecosystems across the Canadian Maritimes through journaling, art, and scientific observation.

Bluesky Account

Discord channel

I’m Samuel LeGresley, and I curate this space. I work in environmental communications and spend a lot of time paying attention to plants, seasons, and how people relate to the living world.

Hemiboreal, particularly its blog, is where I share notes from that practice. They are short texts and graphics, shaped by thinking things through, in and out of natural spaces. Some are finished pieces, and others are closer to field notes.

This work used to be shared under the name WildflowerSeeds.org. The name changed as the scope widened.

I’m based in Canada, where the seasons are harsh and set the rhythm of daily life. I spend a lot of time observing that change and our connection to the natural world we’re part of.

My personal website

Birdtree.land, my online nature art experiment

The meaning of Hemiboreal

Generally overlapping with the Wabanaki-Acadian forest in the Maritimes, the hemiboreal zone is a transitional forest between temperate and boreal regions, featuring a mix of coniferous and deciduous trees like spruce, fir, maple, and birch, but also hemlock, pine, red oak and ash. With cold winters and warm summers, it supports diverse wildlife and bridges the boreal forests of the north with the temperate forests to the south.

See the map below, in deep (middle) green.

Resources for nature journaling

Anyone can nature journal. Here are some resources to get started.

Do you live in the hemiboreal zone and want to participate? Do you have an interest for nature and want to share it?