June 2 brings the Garden Almanac into the practical rhythm of early summer. The great spring rush of sowing and
June 1 opens the Garden Almanac with children, parents, food, harvest gratitude and the quiet work of tending the future.
May 31 brings one of the strangest and most charming pieces of household weather lore into the Garden Almanac: bacon
May 30 brings a small, modest plant into the Garden Almanac: salad burnet, Sanguisorba minor. In Hungarian tradition, it is
May 29 is a day when history, folklore, and ecology meet beneath the branches of one remarkable tree: the oak.
May 28 brings hemp into the Garden Almanac, not as a modern controversy, but as an old household plant. In
May 27 is a quieter day in the Garden Almanac. It is not centered on one plant, one harvest custom
May 26 brings a lighter mood to the Garden Almanac. It is the feast day of Saint Philip Neri, remembered
May 25 is a wonderfully layered day in the Garden Almanac: Saint Urban’s Day, vineyard weather lore, bees, winegrowers, late
May 24 opens the Garden Almanac wide. It is the European Day of Parks, a day that remembers the creation