Welcome to the Seasonal Eating Template!

This guide will help you customize your seasonal eating calendar based on your local growing seasons.

Since growing seasons vary significantly by region, climate, and hemisphere, you'll need to personalize this template for your location. Here's how to get started:

Understanding the Structure

This template contains a database of that can be related to specific of harvest. This allows you to create a personalized seasonal eating guide for your region.

There is also a database that must be updated yearly with new dates. This Calendar database supports the automation and filters which allow the template to dynamically display the current seasonal items, and allows crops to be visualized on a calendar or timeline view.

Customizing Your Seasonal Calendar

Research your local growing seasons and harvest times
For each crop in the database, link it to the Months when it's typically harvested in your area
- Click the In Season Months property.
- Choose the months by hovering over the page and clicking the + to link the desired month pages.
- Feel free to add additional crops if any are missing from your region. Simply click the New button on the top right hand side of the database.
Consider factors like:
- Your climate zone
- Local farming practices
- Greenhouse vs. outdoor growing
There is an optional Source property for tracking which items you may be growing, buying locally, or purchasing at a grocery store.

Additional Tips

Consult local farmers' markets for accurate harvest times
Add notes about specific varieties that grow well in your area
Consider adding storage times for each crop

Remember that this is a living document - you can adjust and refine it as you learn more about your local growing seasons.

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Update your crops

Add new crops, or connect existing crops to the appropriate months ↓

Optional: Add Category, Source, and Notes.

Please note that the Dates property inside each crop will only work if the In Season Months are concurrent. If you have crops that have multiple seasons of harvest, they will still appear in the dashboard, but won’t show in calendar or timeline view.

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The database (evergreen list of months) and database (year-specific months) work together to determind whether or not a crop falls within the current month, and allows crops to appear in a calendar view without requiring crop dates to be updated each year.

Setting Up Month Connections

You can only connect 12 calendar entries at a time, so you’ll want to set an annual reminder to review and update your calendar connections. This ensures your seasonal guide stays accurate throughout the year.

In the Calendar database below, link each monthly calendar entry to its corresponding month in the Month database.
Each Month can only be connected to one Calendar entry at a time.
Add new months by clicking the New button on the top right hand side of the Calendar database.
- Name the page using a Month + Year format, to keep it distinct from the Months database.
- Update the Date range property to reflect the start and end dates of the month.
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Update the Calendar

Month relations are pre-populated through April 2026 to help you get started. (You won’t need to edit this calendar until May 2026)

Use the filter below to change the years as needed.

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