June 6 brings two surprisingly useful observances into the Garden Almanac: World Pest Day and World Green Roof Day. One
June 5 is World Environment Day, one of the world’s largest annual platforms for environmental awareness and action. Led by
June 4 brings a quiet and serious mood to the Garden Almanac. It is a day for thinking about refuge,
June 3 brings together one of the most grounded modern observances and one of the gentlest legends in the Christian
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