A notebook for the things worth writing down.The bird you couldn’t name on the walk. The date the hawthorn came into blossom. The plant at the field edge you’ve been meaning to look up. The notes that don’t belong anywhere else.
This journal is made for that kind of record-keeping, the small, specific observations that build into something over time. Not a diary. Not a sketchbook as it has fine, thin pages, though it works for pencil sketches too. It's a field notebook in the tradition of the naturalists who walked the same country lanes and recorded what they found.

What’s inside

Thirty pages of blank unlined paper enough to draw lightly on, write on, press a stem between, or cover in field notes without running out halfway through a season.
The pages are blank rather than lined or prompted. The naturalist’s notebook was  a record of whatever nature presented, in whatever form made sense at the time.

The cover

Kraft card with original Hedgerow & Moor botanical illustrations, hand printed. British wildlife, hedgerow plants, and the creatures of the lane drawn by hand from observation, printed directly onto the card.

What it’s for

Recording what’s in flower on a specific date. Sketching a specimen before it closes. Writing down a folk name before you forget where you heard it. Noting the first swift of the year, the last blackberry before the first frost, the exact shade of the moor in October.

It works equally well for botanical illustration, pressed specimens, watercolour studies, wildlife notes, plant lore, and any combination of all of them.

Details

A5. 30 sheets — 60 pages. Blank throughout. Kraft card cover. Staple-bound. Designed and printed in Cornwall.
£4.95

As a gift

A considered, practical gift for anyone who spends time outdoors and pays attention to what they find there. Pairs well with the monthly Almanac zines — the zine covers what’s happening in the natural world this month, the journal is where you record what you actually see.