Yellow Springs Ohio Nature Writing | Poor Will’s Almanack

Local nature writing from Yellow Springs, Ohio — the microclimate that Bill has used as a key to the wider natural world.

Yellow Springs, Ohio is a small village in Greene County in the Miami Valley — home to Antioch College, to John Bryan State Park and Glen Helen Nature Preserve, and to a remarkable community of artists, educators and nature lovers. It is also the place where Bill Felker has lived, worked, and watched the natural world for more than four decades.

Location
Greene County, Miami Valley, Southwest Ohio
Natural Areas
Glen Helen, John Bryan State Park, Miami Valley wetlands
Years Observed
40+ years of continuous nature observation

Bill’s local writing demonstrates something that runs through all of his work: that the most universal truths about the natural world are best discovered through the most particular and patient attention to a single place. The Miami Valley microclimate that Bill has documented becomes, in his writing, a key to the extended environment — the part that unlocks the whole.