Gardening by the Moon

02/27/2025

Seed swap this Saturday afternoon at First Unitarian, right on the Syracuse/Dewitt line (just a couple blocks past the end of the SU Drumlins busline). The space is wheelchair accessible and well ventilated. Masks are required and available. Bring extra seeds if you have them, or just your dreams & questions! There will be free seeds and seedsaving supplies available 🌱✨

11/08/2024

This weekly PHENOLOGY JOURNAL was the standout star of our summer/fall vending season. Toby first put this notebook together as a place to record plant, animal, and weather observations in our own yard & garden as well as on our weekly hike in our local wild woods. He thought of it as mostly a vanity project, something that was fun for him whether or not it became a big hit, and was thrilled and surprised when it DID turn out to be a big hit.

Phenology is the practice & science of observing our natural world and of finding our place in it. Writing down observations can be a great way to improve our memory for small details; take closer notice of the minuscule plants, animals, and fungi around us; and compare patterns and trends across years and seasons--especially important now, as formerly-reliable natural rhythms break apart around us.

There are just a few journals from the first printing left on our webstore with the original salvaged mint green covers, but we have plenty of our second printing available, featuring a new extra-heavy, extra-durable cover printed on 111 # cardstock, milled from sustainably forested birch trees. As always, the pages for our hand-bound books are printed on 100% recycled paper. Find them at WolfHillPress.com/shop (scroll down to "books").

And remember... there's no R in phenology!

11/06/2024

If you're excited about planting by the signs & gardening by the moon and want to go deeper, or (like us!) have trouble remembering exactly when, where, and how you planted your spring crops by the time fall harvest rolls around, our MOON GARDENING JOURNAL can help.

Toby first created this journal in the form of tracking sheets, which he stuck in a binder and used in our own garden. This new & improved Moon Gardening Journal is cheaper & more convenient to use than the old tracking sheets, and will help you stay on top of garden chores and in tune with the ancient rhythms of the moon. Keep track of everything from first planting to last harvest with over 100 detailed entries for recording regular garden observations, 19 general crop tracking pages, and 14 seed crop tracking pages.

Pages printed on 100% recycled pages with covers printed on sustainably forested acid-free 100 # cardstock. Available on our site, WolfHillPress.com/shop

10/08/2024

Hello friends!

I won’t bore you with the details but between technological, plumbing, and medical problems over this summer, we didn’t have our new website & webstore ready to go when we had wanted. It is ~mostly~~ done at this point and I’m really excited to be able to do a soft launch of it here on social media this week.

The Gardening by the Moon 2025 Lunar Almanac & Planting Guide is available now; most of the products from our old webstore have been moved to the new one, and additional books, art, and calendars will be added in the next week or three.

The old Gardening by the Moon website will remain as is, including our extensive (and free!) Lunar Learning Library. I invite you to check out the new website at: WolfHillPress.com, see what we have for sale, and as always let us know if you run into any issues.

09/17/2024

We're nearly there! Just 4 days away from CNY Pagan Pride Day and Autumn Equinox Festival! We'll be offering our calendars, books, and art as well as a workshop on intro to Lunar Planting. This is a long-standing and cherished event for us and we're thrilled to support the event as much as we can :)

09/02/2024

We're soooo glad to be returning to CNY Pagan Pride Day! This year as vendors, sponsors, and workshop presenters ~ This is a community that's been important to us for decades and it's important for us to give back in all the ways we can.

We'll see you at the drum circle!

Wolf Hill Press, creators of Gardening by the Moon is a proud sponsor of this year's CNY Pagan Pride Day and Autumn Equinox Festival!

Wolf Hill Press is Pagan community-oriented and values-based business worker-owned and -operated out of Syracuse, NY by two lifelong Central New Yorkers with shared passions for Art; Education; the Natural World; and beautiful, useful, accurate, and scientifically rigorous printed materials for learners, studiers, and explorers of all ages.

06/25/2024

In the midst of feeling overwhelmed by health & time management problems, a snowshoe hare has moved into our garden (and driveway 😜)! I keep telling Maxx a lynx will surely be moving in next. 🤩

The huge increase in wildlife and native biodiversity since I started gardening here in 2018 is the most rewarding part of the whole process for me. (The fruit and veg is nice too!) There’s been a remarkable uptick in bird species coming through the yard this year as well 💚

06/13/2024

Hi friends! I know I've been quiet on here lately - we knew we were overlapping vending, teaching, gardening, and putting the finishing touches on the '25 calendar this spring, but we didn't know I'd be starting a new job as well! - but I wanted to hop on quickly to let you know our last zoom class of the season is TOMORROW, Friday June 14 11am - 1 pm EST.
This class is called Companion Planting by the Signs and I'm really excited to teach it! I've done a lot of cross-referencing between recommended planting signs/phases and recommended companion planting arrangements/techniques, and I can't wait to nerd out with you all about it.
You can find more information in out facebook events, or visit our website: https://gardeningbythemoon.com/about/teaching/ As ever our classes are sliding scale, with no one turned away - email or DM us if you'd like a no-cost ticket :)

06/04/2024

Upgrades underway! Last week we discovered that our business phone had stopped accepting voicemails ... some time? As calendarmakers we naturally receive fewer calls during the spring and summer so it's hard to know exactly when things broke down. We are now the proud owners of a new[ly refurbished] phone and an entirely different phone plan from a more reliable provider 🤞 so if you tried to call and couldn't get through, or left a message and never heard back, please try again!
We were ALREADY working on a brand new website so it's been an infrastructure heavy week! All of the Lunar Learning Library resources will stay exactly in place, but we're switching hosting platforms to eliminate some of the downtime problems we've have with our current host (godaddy), to improve the stability of user accounts, and to streamline the cart & checkout process. We inherited the current GardeningByTheMoon.com website along with the calendar when we took over publishing - Have you had any problems with the website, or do you have any suggestions on how we could improve it?
Our aim is that Wolf Hill Press will be our full time occupation one of these days, but as it grows, Maxx and I are each working demanding jobs and fitting in the many hats we wear for Wolf Hill Press around them. We appreciate your patience with our growing pains as we improve & expand the Gardening by the Moon Lunar Almanac & Planting Guide and your web experience 🌱

05/30/2024

We’ve been busy ... updates coming soon!