Life, carefully tended.

The name comes from gardening — specifically from the idea that a garden left to itself doesn't flourish. It requires attention, patience, and regular care. Not heroic effort, not constant intervention — just consistent, gentle tending.

A life is the same. Left entirely to default — to the algorithm's suggestion, the path of least resistance, the next notification — it can drift away from what actually matters to us. Tending it means pausing to look, to choose, to adjust.

This almanac is the record of that tending: what we're trying, what's working, what fell flat, and what surprised us. The departments are the areas that feel most worth attending to — how we eat, how we move, how we travel, how we spend our attention, how we relate to the planet we live on.

You won't find a rigidly plant-based or zero-waste or social-media-free agenda here. You'll find honest accounts of trying to do better — at whatever pace makes sense for a real life.