Gardening by the Moon was first published by Caren Catterall almost 30 years ago. She put together the calendar in 1997, based largely on the scholarship of Louise Riotte, for her own gardening purposes (as she says—always looking for that earliest tomato!) and published about 50 copies for friends the following year. The calendar grew out from there, encompassing different time zones and growing seasons, digital and printed media, and even at one point software for the desktop computer.
Since her retirement in 2022, the planting guide has been published by Maxx and Toby, the worker-owners of Wolf Hill Press. Along with the beloved calendar Caren created, we are happy to offer you other garden planning tools and supplies, and look forward to publishing other lunar planting resources in the near future.
Gardening by the moon is an idea as old as agriculture. Since time immemorial, people have used the cycles of the moon to tell time, keep track of the seasons, and organize their lives. In cultures around the world, it has been common knowledge that some gardening activities are more suited to one phase or another of the lunar cycle.
Practical-minded subsistence farmers and peasants have followed the same basic guidelines of lunar gardening for millennia in widely disparate places, developing expertise and refining the techniques of moon planting over centuries.
Though some of us have lost touch with the ancient traditions of gardening by the moon, people worldwide have kept this knowledge alive, passed from one generation of gardeners and seedkeepers to the next. The information presented here has been collected from these folk pathways and, in many cases, has been confirmed by contemporary scientific studies.
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