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Poetry, seasons and slow country living.

A quiet editorial home for verse, farm rhythms and reflective notes from the landscape.

Walden Field Notes brings together Poetry Friday favorites, garden journals, wool-and-farm dispatches and thoughtful essays shaped by rural life.

Poetry & Verse

Farm & Wool

Wool!

Picking up my flock’s wool from Battenkill Fibers for the first time is an experience I will never forget.  I had handed over three bags of skirted Shetland...

Garden & Seasons

Gardening again…

Going through seed catalogues is something I reserve for those winters days in which I begin to question the wisdom of our decision to live year-round in upstate...

Quiet Field Notes