Index of plates · complete
Basket notes
Every entry that has been written up out of the notebook, newest first. The first one to survive being typed is from 9 June 2024; the walks before that exist only as pencil in a book with a soft cover.
VWhat I walk past on purpose, and why the basket stays light
The ones left standing: look-alikes I will not risk, species I quietly stopped taking, and the places where picking anything at all is a bad idea.
What not to pickCollected 20 Jul 2026Written up 4 Sept 20267 min · 4 parts
IVWeather signs, moon tables, and what the forest ignores
Kitchen rules about the moon, the rye and the mosquitoes, checked against six years of walks: which ones held up here and which quietly did not.
Weather and folkloreCollected 14 Sept 2025Written up 8 Feb 20266 min · 4 parts
IIIDrying, salting, and a shelf that has to reach May
How the autumn baskets become winter food here: threading and drying boletus, salting milk caps in a crock, and the failures that taught the method.
KeepingCollected 24 Mar 2025Written up 11 Jun 20259 min · 4 parts
IIBilberries on the ridge, cranberries out on the bog
Two berry harvests three months and four kilometres apart: a hot July ridge, an October bog that floats, and how to get both of them home whole.
Berries and bogsCollected 6 Oct 2024Written up 19 Jan 20257 min · 4 parts
IThe two mushroom seasons these pines actually have
Chanterelles from late June, boletus after the August rains: how the two runs differ here, and why the calendar matters less than the nights.
Mushroom seasonsCollected 9 Jun 2024Written up 27 Aug 20248 min · 4 parts
Entries are not rewritten once they are in. Where a later plate contradicts an earlier one, both stay and the later one says which it replaces; the reasoning behind that is on the page abouthow the notebook is written.