Seasonal living is a phrase that gets rolled out lightly, but it means something quite specific — a willingness to let the time of year actually govern what you do, eat, wear and make. That willingness is rarer than the phrase suggests. The writers below do it with the seriousness it deserves, mostly in long form, and often in print.
Emma Lavelle
Emma Lavelle's Postcards from Wherever is a slow, conscious, design-led travel newsletter from the English countryside. She has also written ethical knitwear directories — which is how I first came across her writing — and her eye for small, thoughtful makers is precise without being precious. What I like about her travel writing is how unhurried it is. She goes somewhere properly, stays a while, and reports back in a voice that has actually been changed by the place.
Kayla Lobermeier
Kayla Lobermeier writes Under a Tin Roof from an Iowa hobby farm, and her print journal and cookbooks treat cottagecore food and lifestyle as a year-round practice rather than a photographable moment. Her Cottagecore Baking Book is full of the sort of recipes you actually want to make in autumn. The journal itself is beautifully put together. It is the kind of magazine you keep — flicking back through it at the start of a new season, the way you might reread a letter.
Lia Leendertz
Lia Leendertz's Almanac maps the year in tide, moon, hedgerow and kitchen. I wrote about her in an earlier post on folklore, and she earns a second mention here because seasonal living is, genuinely, her subject. Nobody else in the UK writes about the year with her particular combination of rigour and warmth. Her monthly pages sit next to my cutting table for a reason.
The linen dresses we make are cut with the year in mind — lighter weights for summer, layered with wool in winter, all designed to survive the wardrobes of people who actually let the seasons move them.