A 28-page illustrated zine on the folklore and plant lore of the British hedgerow in high summer, written and illustrated by hand by E.L. Heywood in East Cornwall. The July edition covers the Dog Days of Summer, mugwort and the Nine Herbs Charm, yarrow, meadowsweet, and the hedgerow at its fullest — the week when the year begins its slow turn back towards winter.

The Dog Days run from roughly the 3rd of July to the 11th of August, tied to the heliacal rising of Sirius the Dog Star, the brightest star in the sky, rising with the sun in high summer. The old almanac tradition captured it plainly: "Make hay while the sun shines, for when old Sirius takes command of the weather, he is such an unsteady, crazy dog, there is no dependence upon him." That line comes from the almanac tradition of 1792 and it captures something about July that anyone who has tried to plan around British weather already knows.

Inside: mugwort — Artemisia vulgaris — and the Nine Herbs Charm, the 10th century Anglo-Saxon healing spell held in the British Library that names mugwort the eldest of all herbs and calls on the pagan god Woden by name in a Christian monastic manuscript. Yarrow, the wound-healer used since the Neolithic. Meadowsweet, which the druids counted among the three most sacred herbs.

Each zine is printed on A5. Recycled paper. Illustrated throughout in the herbal engraving tradition. Each issue belongs to its month, the plants, the folklore, and the traditions are specific to this exact point in the year.

The zine is also included in the July Almanac box alongside two original signed art prints, a moon phase calendar, and seasonal items exclusive to the box.