The farm’s calendar, filtered down to the bits that are yours.
A generic farming calendar is interesting. A calendar showing only the fourteen dates that affect something you actually hold is useful, and it is the difference between a content page and a tool.
What is happening to your holdings, month by month.
Dark is when the thing is happening at all. The marked months are when it is worth paying attention.
| What | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patch B2 — winter wheatPatch | Available in January | Available in February | Available in March | Available in April | At its best in | Available in June | Available in July | At its best in | Available in September | Available in October | Available in November | Available in December |
| Cask #0231 — the quarterCask | Available in January | Available in February | Available in March | Available in April | Available in May | Available in June | Available in July | Available in August | Available in September | Available in October | At its best in | Available in December |
| The Larder BoxBox | Available in January | Available in February | Available in March | Available in April | Available in May | Available in June | Available in July | Available in August | Available in September | Available in October | Available in November | At its best in |
| Your fostered eweFoster | At its best in | At its best in | At its best in | Available in April | Available in May | Available in June | Available in July | Available in August | Available in September | Available in October | Available in November | Available in December |
| Member access windowsMembership | Available in January | Available in February | Available in March | Available in April | Not in May | Not in June | Not in July | Not in August | Available in September | Available in October | At its best in | At its best in |
| The patch grid reopeningBuying | Not in January | Not in February | Not in March | Not in April | Not in May | Not in June | Not in July | Not in August | At its best in | Available in October | Not in November | Not in December |
At its best Available This month, August
The five dates that actually matter.
Late September — the grid reopens
A fortnight of first refusal on the patch you already hold, then open to everybody. Miss it and you have not lost money, you have lost a field.
The 28th of any month — the box skip
The cut-off to skip or change the next Larder Box. After that it is picked and we are not unpicking it.
Late January — lambing
The one time of year the notification volume goes up rather than down, and the only time we would not blame you for turning it off.
Mid August — six hours of notice
Harvest is decided at dawn on a moisture reading. There is no way to give more warning than that and we have stopped pretending otherwise.
The 19th of December — perishables stop
Everything with a chiller in its supply chain has already gone. Non-perishables run to the 22nd.
Why the calendar is filtered rather than complete.
We could show you the whole farming year. It is a good page and it already exists. But a member who holds a wheat patch and a cask does not need to be told when the oilseed rape goes in, and a calendar with forty entries on it is a calendar nobody reads twice.
So this one carries fourteen dates. Six of them are yours because of something you bought, five are membership windows, and three are the fixed retail deadlines that catch people out every December.
If you want the whole thing, the farming year is one link away and considerably more interesting.
The three deadlines that catch people every year.
| Deadline | What it governs | What happens if you miss it |
|---|---|---|
| The 28th | Skipping or changing next month’s box | It ships as it was. You can still refuse it at the door |
| 19 December | Perishables before Christmas | It goes in January. We will not put a chiller item into the Christmas post |
| The end of the first fortnight in October | First refusal on your patch | The patch goes to the open grid. You can still buy a different one |
Fourteen dates
Not forty. A calendar nobody reads twice is not a calendar.
All five majors nag you
On by default, and individually switchable.
Subscribe to it
A read-only calendar feed, so it lands in whatever you already use.
Times are British
Every time on this site is UK local. There is no other timezone on this farm.
The year, questioned.
Yes. A read-only subscription feed, refreshed nightly, containing only your dates. It updates when the farm moves a date, which the farm does constantly.
Because harvest is a moisture reading and a five-day forecast, not a plan. The window is published in June and the date is published about six hours before it happens.
Only if you asked us to link a gift or a split. Otherwise it is yours alone.
The farm’s year, unfiltered.
Four seasons, every operation, and why the drill date is the argument it is.
