Lindsay Buck’s online herbarium was first inspired by the open meadows of Switzerland, with their abundant wildflowers and lush greens. Having moved to Switzerland in 2010, Buck was fascinated by the diversity of plant life she encountered on her routine daily walks with her husband and dogs. “I was encouraged to preserve and document the wonderful variety I was finding,” she writes on her website.\n\n\n\n
And so, the freshly pressed project was born: an incredible collection of wildflower specimens which Buck shares on her website and Instagram page. In 2019, Buck brought the freshly pressed project back with her to Minnesota, where she continues to collect, press, and add to her herbarium collection. “It has been an adventure in rediscovering the species from my childhood, which I now view with a new appreciation,” she writes.\n\n\n\n