Planning Next Season
Next season starts with this season notes: tree records, drying results, storage results, and what to change. Plan readiness before the drop, not during it.
Start with the pillar guide
Planning Next Season: The Complete Guide
Plan next season from this season notes: which trees produced, when drops happened, how drying and storage performed, and what went wrong. Use those notes to prepare containers, gloves, drying space, and a pickup rhythm before the next drop, rather than improvising during it.
Supporting guides
Review season notes by tree: first drop, peak drop, harvest quality, drying result, storage result, and problems. Patterns across years matter more than any sin
Prepare containers and tools for next season by cleaning, drying, repairing, and storing them after this season, then checking them before the next drop. Ready
Choose next year trees by past performance, identification confidence, access, and health, favouring reliable, identified, accessible trees over unknown or unhe
Set up drying space before the drop by choosing a dry ventilated room, cleaning trays, and clearing enough single-layer space for an expected harvest. Drying sp
Improve one weak step each season, whether identification, hulling promptness, drying, cracking, sorting, or storage, rather than trying to fix everything at on
Keep a multi-year record with one row per tree per season, covering drop dates, harvest quality, drying, storage, and problems. Over years, that record becomes
Share knowledge with new gatherers by teaching identification first, ground gathering second, and the job order third, and by sharing notes and mistakes honestl
Expand gathering when you have mastered the job order on current trees, have drying and storage capacity ready, and have identified new trees with confidence. E
Before next drop, check: trees identified, containers clean, gloves ready, drying space ready, pickup rhythm planned, notebook ready, and storage containers cle