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The Accidental Farmer’s Almanac

The Accidental Farmer’s Almanac

Thomas McOsker · Essays and field observations · In development at Copper Mill Press

An annual field record in development at Copper Mill Press, gathered since 2017.

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Copper Mill PressThe Accidental Farmer’s AlmanacThomas McOsker
Annual publication · Planned

A recurring record of things worth noticing.

The Accidental Farmer’s Almanac is envisioned as an annual gathering of literature, field observations, essays, experiments, visual art, and unexpected discoveries.

An almanac is a book that returns. It observes what changes and what endures. It collects the seasonal, the practical, the strange, and the revealing.

Each annual edition will return to Copper Mill’s founding question from new directions, bringing together work that discovers overlooked value in the living world and the systems we inhabit.

The almanac is a planned recurring publication. Issue themes, contributors, and release dates will be announced when confirmed.

Possible recurring departments

Between the field and the page.

Essays

The examined world

Literary inquiry into economics, ecology, memory, labor, and worth.

Artist pages

The imagined world

Visual work and artist texts that offer new ways of seeing.

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About the author

The Accidental Farmer

Thomas McOsker spent fourteen years on Wall Street building financial systems and learning how markets assign value. Then he bought a coffee farm in the mountains of western Puerto Rico and began discovering what those markets leave out.

The Accidental Farmer is the writer who emerged from that collision: a financier turned farmer and researcher, and still a student of the land.

His work explores the distance between what we measure, what we value, and what matters. Through stories of people, machines, plants, money, science, and the occasional catastrophe, he connects the daily work of a farm to the larger systems that set its prices.

Field Notes from the Accidental Farmer is his public notebook: essays most Thursdays, grounded in lived experience and written to leave readers seeing something differently.

The Accidental Farmer’s Almanac gathers those essays each year into a literary record of observation, discovery, mistakes, and changing understanding.

The Second Harvest tells the history of coffee’s forgotten leaf harvest and makes the full economic and agricultural case behind the work.

He writes for farmers, scientists, investors, and anyone who eats, in stories that make complex ideas clear, consequential, and sometimes funny.

The farm is the classroom.