I've always paid attention to what the season is doing — the citrus coming in, the fog rolling back, the first real heat of summer. Growing up in Northern California, the land makes sure you notice, whether you meant to or not.

Somewhere along the way, life got busier than the seasons could keep up with. The things that actually made me happy — cutting flowers for no one in particular, a sauce made from tomatoes that all came in at once, something slow-cooking while I did something else entirely — kept getting pushed to the edges. Scheduled in, if I was lucky.

The Living Almanac is me putting those things back in the center.

I'm Lily — gardener, cook, maker, mother, founder, and fine jewelry designer. This is a seasonal guide to the garden, the table, the home, the body , the rhythms of everyday life. What's growing. What's in season. What's worth making, and what's worth slowing down for.

It's also bigger than me. It's for anyone who finds meaning in the first tomatoes of summer, who keeps a garden because something in them needs to, who treats a well-kept home as its own quiet art. If that's you, you're not learning this - you're already living it. This is just where we do it together.

I'm so glad you're here.

— Lily, Founder & Editor, The Living Almanac