The Cottage Year
The Cottage Year is a seasonal companion for home, land, and everyday life. Through the garden, kitchen, herbal practice, homekeeping, old stories, and everyday ritual, it offers ways to notice where you are and create traditions that actually belong there.
WHAT IS THE COTTAGE YEAR?
A year lived with the seasons.
The Cottage Year follows the turning seasons and the rhythms of ordinary life. It is a place to learn, gather ideas, and deepen your relationship with the place you call home through seasonal food, gardening, herbalism, homekeeping, folkways, and personal practice.
There is no single way to live a Cottage Year. What is growing, ripening, migrating, blooming, or going dormant will be different from place to place. Take what is useful, adapt it to where you live, and let your own landscape help shape the year.
HOW THE YEAR UNFOLDS
The Cottage Year begins with the larger rhythm of the year: four seasons, each with its own character, changes, and ways of tending home and land.
THE SEASONS
A deeper exploration of where we are in the year.
Each Seasonal Gateway brings together the garden, kitchen, herbalism, hearthwork, folkways, and practices that belong to this particular turning of the season.
THE MONTHS
A closer look at what is happening now.
Each month narrows our attention to what is growing, gathering, changing, and asking to be tended, with seasonal ideas to read, make, cook, notice, and explore.
WANT TO TAKE IT FURTHER?
MY COTTAGE YEAR
Week by week. Day by day.
My Cottage Year is the private companion to The Cottage Year: a place to move from seasonal inspiration into your own everyday practice.
Follow the season week by week, then make it personal with tools for journaling, planning, meal planning, herbal study, garden keeping, phenology, seasonal rituals, and recording the small observations that make your year distinctly your own.
The Cottage Year offers the inspiration. My Cottage Year gives you a place to live it.