The Batch Ledger
Every jar carries a batch number on its base. Bring it here and the ledger will tell you where that batch grew, when it was gathered, what the laboratory found in it, and anything else we wrote down, which is everything.
Or scan the little code on the label: it opens the batch's own page.
Sample entries to try: FS-07 · KM-03 · AS-11 · TV-05 · DD-02
Specimen of the Season
Specimen of the Season — Autumn
Golden Chanterelle
Cantharellus roseocanus
It arrives with the first cold rains, gold against the moss under the spruce, and smells faintly of apricots. False gills, true colour. We leave the small ones to grow and take only what the day needs. Kane carries the basket, and has never once been asked to.
Filed under: things worth waiting for. The naturalist's notebook, entry 214.
She is fifteen and still walks me to the gate every morning, slowly, like it's the most important appointment of the day. Whatever you people are doing down there — keep doing it.
— Ruth & Nellie