Seasonal Food Calendar — 'Native Circles' Birchwood Wheel

A stunning calendar print of an original pen drawing by artist Emily Robyn Archer on high-quality recycled paper mounted onto a circular Birchwood board.

This wheel is for anyone who loves making the most of seasonal abundance and wants to eat more sustainably. Turn the wheel month by month to see what local fruit and vegetables are in season throughout the year. 

Enjoy this colourful, cyclical guide to locally grown seasonal vegetables and fruit. Display this in your kitchen, check it before you go to the market or plan your season’s culinary adventures around this engaging guide. Make apple juice in October when you can pick them for free, look forward to midsummer when soft fruits like raspberries are at their best, or batch-make sauerkraut in the winter months when there is a glut of cabbages. We know that locally grown seasonal fruit and vegetables are healthier, tastier and have a much lower ecological footprint. They can even be more affordable, too! With so many reasons to eat seasonally, I created this guide to make seasonal eating easier. 

Take a closer look

This wheel radiates like the sun’s rays shining down, bringing life and energy to all the glorious fruits and vegetables that nourish us. While many seasonal eating guides are arranged in a grid format, I designed this one to follow each month of the year in a circle. The colourful circular lines that orbit around the centre each track a food's time in season. For example, when you look at March, you'll see a drawing of a lovely bunch of rhubarb. There's a pink line that travels from the rhubarb all the way around to October. This line shows that rhubarb comes into season in March and stays in season until October. At the top of each month, you'll find a picture of a certain vegetable or fruit with a small white and blue flag that says "Best in Season." This tells you when an item is the most delicious and nutritious thing around, like rhubarb in May!  

Enjoy a tastier, more nourishing and sustainable year with this Seasonal Food Calendar. 

Use the key in the centre of the circle to check what’s in season, what’s available locally from storage, and what’s best in season.