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The AlmanacThe National Edition

real farms, u-pick orchards, raw milk & farm stands across the South & Midwest
No. 2Price: free
13 states169 farms
Compiled thirteen miles out of Oxford, Mississippi, by people who own a gate that squeaks.
Plate I

The country
this edition covers

We started this list for ourselves. Thirteen miles out of Oxford there is no app that tells you who has strawberries this week, which dairy will sell you a herd share, or whose Christmas trees are worth the gas — so we asked, and wrote it down, and kept writing it down.

The circulation area is the South and the lower Midwest, because that is the country we can actually check. We open a state when we have farms in it we’ve read about in their own words. Not before.

Thirteen states are open. The rest are coming, slowly.

Home ground — Mississippi, where the gate is

Open now — farms listed, a ring you can browse

In the circulation area — not open yet

Off the map — another almanac’s country

Alabama — open now · browse the AlmanacArkansas — open now · browse the AlmanacArizonaCaliforniaColoradoConnecticutWashington, DCDelawareFloridaGeorgia — open now · browse the AlmanacIowa — open now · browse the AlmanacIdahoIllinois — in the circulation area, not open yetIndiana — in the circulation area, not open yetKansas — open now · browse the AlmanacKentucky — open now · browse the AlmanacLouisiana — open now · browse the AlmanacMassachusettsMarylandMaineMichiganMinnesotaMissouri — open now · browse the AlmanacMississippi — home ground · the gate is thirteen miles out of OxfordMontanaNorth Carolina — in the circulation area, not open yetNorth DakotaNebraska — open now · browse the AlmanacNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNevadaNew YorkOhioOklahoma — open now · browse the AlmanacOregonPennsylvaniaRhode IslandSouth Carolina — in the circulation area, not open yetSouth DakotaTennessee — open now · browse the AlmanacTexas — open now · browse the AlmanacUtahVirginiaVermontWashingtonWisconsinWest VirginiaWyoming

Plate I · the circulation area Seventeen states drawn, thirteen of them open — sixteen rings and 169 farms. Mississippi carries the mark because that’s where the gate is — thirteen miles out of Oxford.

Plate II

What we
keep track of

Seven lanes. A farm can be in as many as it earns — plenty of places sell berries in June, pumpkins in October and a tree in December off the same forty acres.

I.U-pick & orchardspick your own berries, peaches and apples — go in season, call first57 farms · 13 states →II.Farm stands & farm storesroadside markets and on-farm stores, open when the crop is in85 farms · 13 states →III.Raw milk & dairyherd shares and farm dairies, described in the farm’s own words32 farms · 13 states →IV.Pastured eggs & meatbeef, pork, lamb and eggs sold direct off the pasture57 farms · 13 states →V.CSA & farm sharessubscribe to a season — a box, a share, a standing order35 farms · 13 states →VI.Pumpkin patchespatches, mazes and hayrides, roughly late September on51 farms · 13 states →VII.Christmas tree farmschoose-and-cut and pre-cut, wreaths and garland, Thanksgiving into December26 farms · 13 states →

Each lane has its own page now, gathering that lane across every ring we keep. Because a farm shows up in every lane it earns, the seven columns add to more than the 169 farms on the list.

Plate III

The state
ledger

Real counts only. An empty column is more useful than a padded one.

Counts are per ring, not per state line — a farm always carries the state it’s actually in, and where a ring reaches across, the row below says so.

Mississippi is home ground, and the country around Oxford has had its own edition of this almanac since before the national one existed.

Mississippi Home ground, and the one state we don’t have to look up. The hill country around Oxford has had its own edition since before the national one existed; the capital country came next, an hour’s ring drawn around Jackson. The Delta, the piney woods and the coast are honest work still to do. 1 ring · 9 farms → Tennessee The first state we opened, and it divides itself into three. West is the Memphis ring, Middle is the Nashville ring. East Tennessee is still empty. 2 rings · 24 farms → Alabama The Birmingham District is open. The Tennessee Valley, the Black Belt and the Wiregrass are still to be read. 1 ring · 10 farms → Arkansas The Arkansas Valley, drawn around Little Rock. The ring stays inside the state the whole way around. The Ozarks and the Ouachitas come next. 1 ring · 10 farms → Georgia The Piedmont, drawn around Atlanta. Two rows sit at the far edge of that hour and the page says so plainly. The Fall Line and the coastal plain are still empty. 1 ring · 12 farms → Iowa One ring out of Des Moines that never leaves the state — two farms up on the glacier’s plain, three west in the Raccoon River country, five south on the older ground. 1 ring · 10 farms → Kansas The Arkansas River valley around Wichita, in eight towns. The Flint Hills are reached but not ringed; the Kaw valley and the high plains are still to come. 1 ring · 9 farms → Kentucky The Falls country around Louisville. Ten of the eleven are Kentucky farms and one is across the river in Indiana, which the ring page says out loud. The Bluegrass is next up. 1 ring · 11 farms → Louisiana One ring drawn around New Orleans and Baton Rouge both, because the same farm ground sits between them. Seven of the ten are up in the Florida Parishes. 1 ring · 10 farms → Missouri Two cities, two state lines. The Confluence ring around St. Louis reaches into Illinois; the western border ring around Kansas City reaches into Kansas. The Ozarks are still empty. 2 rings · 24 farms → Nebraska The Missouri Bluffs around Omaha — eight Nebraska farms and one across the river in Iowa. The Platte valley, the Sandhills and the panhandle are still to come. 1 ring · 9 farms → Oklahoma Frontier Country around Oklahoma City, and every farm on it is an Oklahoma farm. Green Country is next, Tulsa first. 1 ring · 10 farms → Texas Too big for one list, so we take it a metro at a time. North Texas around Dallas–Fort Worth and the Upper Gulf Coast around Houston. The Hill Country, East and South Texas and the Plains are still to come. 2 rings · 21 farms →
Also in the circulation area — coming, slowly
Illinois · Indiana · North Carolina · South Carolina

Five of the sixteen rings cross a state line, and a farm always carries the state it’s actually in, not the state of the city it’s near: the Memphis ring holds 3 north-Mississippi farms and 1 in Arkansas, the St. Louis ring 4 in Illinois, the Kansas City ring 3 in Kansas, the Louisville ring 1 in Indiana, the Omaha ring 1 in Iowa. That is why Illinois and Indiana are on the list above and still not open — a few farms inside somebody else’s ring is not a state page. We’d rather have 169 farms we’ve read than four thousand we haven’t.

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