A little more than a month ago, it was announced that the 2026 edition would be the last Farmer’s Almanac published. After 208 years of providing weather forecasts, crop planting information, recipes, and home remedies the Farmer’s Almanac would be no more.

This is not to be confused with the Old Farmer’s Almanac, which is still being published. I know, it can be six-seven (as the kids say); especially for those of us who did not grow up on farms and did not use this yearly guide.

I was trying to remember when I first laid eyes on the Farmer’s Almanac. It seems that it was probably at my aunt and uncle’s rural home in the early 1960’s where they had a large garden (as opposed to a small farm), that we visited each summer when I was growing up. My aunt kept a basket of rotated reading material next to the toilet in the bathroom and I believe the Farmer’s Almanac was in there among the Reader’s Digest, Country Life, and the Sears Catalog magazines.

Anyway, since this was going to be the last Farmer’s Almanac, Cindy and I decided to order one so we would have it…for some reason. Maybe just to have it, maybe to pass it along to which ever kid or grandkid might want it when we die, maybe to even use it as we travel.

So now we have our copy of the last Farmer’s Almanac and we’ll see what happens.