New Farmer's Almanac Volume 7: Premonition

As a literary journal powered by farmers, for farmers, with farmers—in daily relation with the living world, Volume 7 of the New Farmer’s Almanac is called PREMONITION. Literature, as in dreamworld, allows our human psyches to sort, unfold and reorganize memories and meaning. Evolutionary life, learning from extremity, unfolds with inspiration, trembles towards survival. We are earth-bound beings tuned to a world wide web of soil.

Printed in full color for the first time, this Almanac challenges us to share our premonitions and respond to narratives of inevitability: what transmissions we are receiving from the living world?

100+ new works by farmers, artists, activists, organizers, journalists, storytellers, poets, teachers, scholars, scientists, chefs… contributors to Volume 7 include Bridget Huber, Douglas W. Milliken, Saleh Saad, Jacqueline Suskin, Tusha Yakovelva, Gina Rae La Cerva, Mél Hogan and Jacqueline Jenkins, Sheryll Durant, Lucas Farrell, DJ White, Zöe Wonfor and April Martin, Alexis Iammarino, Sarah Ryhanen, Ellie Irons, Georgia Julius and many more!

speculative • fiction • basket weaving • humor • the cloud • saltmarsh grasses • archaic divination • poetry • farming in palestine • prairie strips • collectives • the lives of insects • DIY tutorials • “Good Days” calendar • lunar calendar • re-Worlding • salamagundy

Inside these pages, connect with our long human history of standing on the earth, of working in the earth, of observing, relating, adapting ourselves in a world of ever-learning aliveness. We humans have ordered our ethnobotany, our culture, our horticulture, our agriculture, and our civics through the making of meaning in relationship with terrestrial spaces.  A world alive with emblems, forebearers, teachers—long before empires and plantations and predictive algorithms—we reacted to landscape signals, moved on our feet across continents. We are ancient humans who dream, who sense, whose ears are tuned to the whispers and transmissions of evolutionary life. We have followed stars and kelp highways across the vast Pacific. We held songlines the length and breadth of tropics and deserts. We have followed impulses, our versions of sacred, shamanic inspiration. We call these habits taste and tradition.

• Softcover
• 400 Pages
• 100+ Contributors
• Publication Year 2025

Greenhorns works to promote, recruit and support the next generation of farmers through grassroots media production. Our role is to explore the context in which new farmers face the world. They also publish The New Farmer's Almanac: a collection of articles written by new economists, working agrarians, poets, agri-philosophers, and activists — lovingly compiled by the Greenhorns editorial team. Each Almanac focuses on diverse and relevant issues in evolving agricultural technology, food systems, agroecology, politics, and innovations in sustainability. Published biennially, the New Farmer's Almanac is a window into the undercurrents of agrarian thinking.