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Farm Diary 2028
A dated page for every day of the farming year, with room enough to hold whatever the weather and the stock actually did to the plan.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 400
- Leaves
- 200
- Sheets
- 100
- Signatures
- 20 × 20pp
- Spine
- 22.88 mm
- Paper
- white
- Year
- 2028
A farmer's day is not set by a calendar. It is set by what calved overnight, whether the ground dried out enough to get on it, and whether the delivery that was meant for Tuesday turned up at all. A diary built for an office week does not leave room for any of that.
Every day opens onto its own page, left open enough to hold whatever the day actually required rather than a fixed set of boxes. A run of lined notes pages follows for the longer entries a single day cannot hold, and four reflection pages are spaced through the year for stepping back from the run of days rather than adding to it.
It will not tell you when to plant, spray, or bring stock in. Those dates are set by your ground, your latitude, and the season you are actually having, not by a printed page written the year before. What survives is a record of what you did and when. Next year gets to argue with it.
What is inside
- Farm day
- 366pp
- One open page per day, for whatever the work actually was rather than a fixed set of fields.
- Month
- 12pp
- A month spread ahead of each run of daily pages.
- Notes
- 7pp
- Lined pages for the longer entries a single day will not hold.
- Reflection
- 4pp
- Four pages spaced through the year for stepping back from the daily run.
- Year
- 1pp
- A single year-at-a-glance page at the front.
- Reference
- 10pp
- Owner details, conversion tables worked from definitions, and emergency numbers checked against two independent sources.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Farm Diary 2027Another year2028 to 2027
- Farm Season PlannerWorks alongsideshares farmer, field-work
- Night Shift Agenda 2027Works alongsideshares field-work
- Night Shift Agenda 2028Works alongsideshares field-work
- Site Diary 2027Works alongsideshares field-work
- Site Diary 2028Works alongsideshares field-work
Questions
What does each day page hold?
Whatever the day actually needed. There is no fixed set of fields, because a lambing day and a spraying day do not need the same boxes.
What are the reflection pages for?
Four pages spaced through the year, for stepping back from the daily run rather than adding another line to it.
Does it tell me when to plant or spray?
No. Those dates are set by your ground and your latitude, not by a book printed the year before.
Is it dated?
Yes, one page a day through 2028, month by month.
Who is it for?
Farmers, growers and smallholders who want the day's record kept where the day happened, not typed up later from memory.
The man who has actually paid for his farm with labor on it is so rare that every neighbor can point to him.
