A local field guide for people who like dirt under their nails, a line in the water, and a basket in the woods. Canada and the United States.

The Weekly Field Note

What's ready, what's biting and what the sky is doing where you are. One email, Sunday evening.

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  • The zone map
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  • The day, hour by hour
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  • Rivers and lakes near you
  • Regulations
  • Sun, moon and solunar
  • Fish of Canada and the US
  • The day, hour by hour
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Foraging

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  • Wild edibles A–Z
  • The foraging calendar
  • Medicinal plants
  • What can hurt you here
  • Limey ground or sour
  • Everything else out there

Learn

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  • The season plan
  • Lessons by theme
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  • The field journal
  • Each child's ladder
  • Kinds of rock
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  • The zone map
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The season plan

Acorns are on the ground for about five weeks, and the date moves by a fortnight across a single province. The first frost is a real date for a real town. The day is losing minutes tonight at a rate that will have halved by December. That is what decides whether a lesson works this Saturday or waits a year — so tell us where you are and the plan is built from your own year.

Town, postal code or ZIP — or use your location.

Or start from one of these

Toronto, ONMontréal, QCVancouver, BCCalgary, ABOttawa, ONHalifax, NSWinnipeg, MBKingston, ONSherbrooke, QCSeattle, WA