Field notes goes au naturale. Image: Field Notes
Imagine eating a steak wrapped in fine leather. Preposterous, I know. But Field Notes, the brand behind the precious memo books of the same name, has accomplished a similar feat. Its paper pages, which are of course made of wood, are now also bound in wood. The company calls this new line of notebooks the Shelterwood edition.
The Shelterwood collection features covers cut from hand-selected cherry trees sustainably grown in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Sixty feet of cherry logs yield 5,000 feet of Field Notes’ “sheer veneer,” and waste from the endeavor, in the form of wood pellets, is used to heat the factory. Field Notes documented the process in a video on its site.
Sandwiched between the covers are 48 pages of Finch Fine “Soft White” 70-pound stock, the same paper you’ll find in the “America the Beautiful” edition notebooks. The ruling is a shade of green that Field Notes calls “Maidenhair,” and the inside covers feature text in a pleasing mossy green color. Three gold staples bind the pages together.
Use a Shelterwood Field Notes book to jot down your musings while traversing a pebble-strewn path in the woods, or to feel a bond with Gaia while you sip your organic, fair-trade espresso while jotting ideas for your startup’s next app. It’s $10 for a 3-pack. You’ll have to wait until spring to get them though.
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