Weather for the people who feed the country — every crop, every county, read like a road map and kept like an almanac.
Eight routes across American agriculture. Follow a shield to a live product, or take the next exit to a crop. Green signs are open; amber shields are still being paved.
New→first quarter: sow leafy greens & grains that set seed outside the fruit — lettuce, spinach, cabbage, cereals.
“Onion skins very thin, mild winter coming in; onion skins thick and tough, coming winter cold and rough.”
Folk phenology: a plant's autumn armor read as a bet on the season ahead.