One year. Roughly 800 of you now, which is wild to me — I started this for the dozen people who kept texting me "what's that plant." Thank you for being here.

A quick look back at the Chicago forager's calendar, all in one place:

The year in links

• January–February — field garlic and maple sap. The "dead" months that aren't.
• March–April — first greens, then ramps (leaf only, always).
• May — morels, the white whale.
• June–July — mulberries, black raspberries, chanterelles.
• August–September — chicken of the woods and the holy pawpaw.
• October–November — hen of the woods, acorns, and the ethics that hold it all together.

Field note

Save this issue. It's the whole map. Next year we go deeper — more spots (vaguely described), more recipes, maybe a meetup if enough of you are local. Reply and tell me: what do you most want to learn to find?

Happy solstice.

— Jenna