A (slightly) snarky gardening zine wasn't on my sabbatical to-do list
Updated: 21 hours ago
But it's one of my favorite outcomes!
Created with artist intelligence; No LLMs/GenAI used here, ever.
It’s Not Too Late to Garden in Laramie This Year is a food gardening calendar and resource zine that my friend and fellow artist Dr. Tessa Peters and I designed. You can print it, double-sided, on a single sheet of paper. We highly recommend using colored pencils or crayons to color in all the illustrations we included...you know, just for fun!
If you live in a high-elevation environment or anywhere else that has a short, intense growing season, this gardening calendar can help you figure out what you could likely grow and harvest during any month of the year. We’ve made some notes about how much effort it might take you to harvest every month of the year (hint: a lot more from November through May!), and also notes about what should be pretty easy to grow even if you don’t get started until July or August.
This zine distills my ~30 years of professional and personal gardening experience, all of which has been conducted above 41° latitude (and most of which was actually between 46-47). Laramie sits at ~7,200 feet in elevation, so the combo makes gardening here an extreme sport! We think this calendar can help you balance your expectations while still having fun and growing something yummy to eat. If you’d like to know more, search for “food” or “gardening” on my website to find all my food-related content.
How about you?
Have you made anything creative but not demanding or time-intensive lately? What was your motivation? How did you share it?
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