Under the Elm

Your grandmother left her cabin to you. She left a basket by the door, a field guide to document what you find, and eleven villagers who still expect her remedies on a regular basis. She left a hearth grown cold, her cat - Gabriel - still curled in front of it, a library behind the wall, and an attic full of thoughts she never got to share. Most importantly, she left you the woods. Since the day she died, something has been finding its way out of them, and the village is losing her to it.

Forage the forest she walked. Seven biomes each with its own season-by-season cast of 64 mushroom and 63 botanical species drawn from real foraging traditions: Spring morels and wild garlic, summer chicken of the woods and lavender, autumn porcini and hawthorn, and winter velvet shanks and snowdrops. Twenty-three of them are hiding in plain sight as dangerous lookalikes, mimicking the safe varieties. Identify what you can with the Field Guide, and have Fern help you with the ones you can't.

As you explore the world she left behind, you'll catalog everything in Grandma's Field Guide, the pages filling in - one species at a time. Brew the recipes she perfected.126 remedies built from six forms of the same plant: fresh, dried, hot water decoction, cold infusion, alcohol distillation, and fermentation.…