A magazine about the outdoors, written at walking pace.
Long essays on land, weather, and the people who work both. Printed four times a year on paper worth keeping.
Issue 14 ships October 1. Cover photograph by Elena Vance.
We started Field Notes because the writing we loved about the natural world had nowhere left to run long. Our essays go 4,000 words when they need to. Nothing is optimized. Everything is fact-checked, twice.
In the Soil Issue: a season underground with Iowa's last independent seed librarians; what Welsh hill farmers know about rain that satellites don't; and a defense of the earthworm, 200 years overdue.
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