The cover of Missouri Nature Year 2027

Guides Missouri

Missouri Nature Year 2027

Everything Birch Compass knows about a year of nature in one state — the book, the posters, the sky calendar, the life list, and a weekly note through 2027.

  • The full year as a book — twelve chapters, every zone's garden notes
  • A week-by-week layer: 52 entries, not 12
  • Four printable posters, at letter size and 18x24
  • The 2027 sky calendar for your latitude
  • A life list built to last three seasons

$34.00one-time

Instant download · yours to keep, with no account and no renewal · full refund within 30 days

A look inside

What the Missouri pages actually look like

Download a two-page sample — real pages from the Missouri edition, not a mock-up.

From the Missouri edition

Some of what is actually in it

The garden chapters carry 59 native species for Missouri, each with its bloom window and zone timing. Among them:

  • Purple Coneflower
  • Black-Eyed Susan
  • Butterfly Weed
  • Common Milkweed
  • Swamp Milkweed
  • Wild Bergamot
  • New England Aster
  • Aromatic Aster
  • Showy Goldenrod
  • Stiff Goldenrod
  • Wild Columbine
  • Cardinal Flower

How the Missouri year breaks down

Counted, not claimed

Something in the Missouri list is in bloom from March through November, and July is the peak — 28 of the 59 species are flowering then.

19 of them are caterpillar host plants and 20 support specialist bees — the ones that do the most work in Missouri yards.

In the box

Exactly what you receive

The book64 pages, twelve chapters — one per month of the Missouri year
Sky calendar5 pages, computed for Missouri's latitude, dated to 2027
Printable posters8 files — four designs, each at letter size and 18×24 inches
Life list1 page with first-sighting columns for 2027, 2028 and 2029
Weekly noteOne short Missouri email a week through 2027, from this same data
FilesEleven in all, on one Missouri library page — each downloadable on its own
FormatPDF, laid out for both Letter and A4
DeliveryAn instant download link, plus a link you can re-open for 72 hours
AccessYours to keep — no expiry, no account, no subscription
RefundsFull refund within 30 days, no questions

How it works

From checkout to the field

  1. Buy it

    Checkout takes a card and an email address — no account to create.

  2. Open it straight away

    The download link appears immediately and the Missouri files are yours to keep.

  3. Use it through the year

    Every week through 2027 a short Missouri note arrives — what to look for in the days ahead, from the same data.

Free and paid, side by side

The Missouri pages here stay free. Here is what the edition adds.

The free Missouri pagesMissouri Nature Year 2027
What it coversThe month Missouri is in, free and alwaysAll twelve Missouri months, planned before they arrive
Garden timingThe notes for your zone, once the site knows itEvery Missouri zone from 5a–7b, side by side on the page
Where you can read itOn a screen, wherever Missouri has signalOn paper, in the field, with no signal at all
Through the yearYou come back and look it upA short Missouri note each week tells you what is happening now
PriceFree, and staying that way$34.00 once — no renewal, no account

Before you buy

Who this is for

Made for

  • Someone who wants the whole Missouri year in one place, planned ahead
  • Households where more than one person goes outside
  • Anyone who would rather print it once than look it up twelve times

Not for

  • Anyone who only ever needs one month — the free Missouri pages already do that well

Everything here describes typical timing across Missouri, drawn from long-run records — weather, elevation and how close you are to water all move the real dates around. So the Missouri pages say "usually early May" and never "May 4th", which is not hedging but the most the data can honestly carry.

Where it comes from

Compiled from

USGS Breeding Bird Survey · State fish & wildlife agencies · USA National Phenology Network · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center · The Xerces Society · USDA PLANTS Database · GBIF occurrence records · USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map · Cooperative Extension (land-grant directory) · International Meteor Organization. How each of these is used in the Missouri edition, and which figures are measured rather than modeled, is set out in the methodology.

Questions

Before you decide

Is this specific to Missouri, or a national guide with the name swapped in?

It is built from Missouri's own data. Every chapter is Missouri's — its species, its timing, and garden notes for every zone from 5a–7b.

Missouri spans several hardiness zones — which one does this cover?

All of them. Missouri runs 5a–7b, and the guide carries each zone's timing rather than picking one and hoping it fits your garden.

How accurate is the timing for Missouri?

It describes typical timing across Missouri drawn from long-run records, and because weather, elevation and habitat move real Missouri dates around it says "usually early May" rather than "May 4th".

Is it worth paying when the Missouri pages here are free?

The free Missouri pages are the month you are in; this is the whole Missouri year, planned before it arrives and printable, so you are not holding a screen in the garden.

Will it work for my part of Missouri, or just the big cities?

It is written at state resolution — Missouri as a whole, with regional notes where Missouri genuinely differs end to end, and nothing behind it is recorded finely enough to honestly promise more than that.

What format is the Missouri edition, and can I print it?

A PDF laid out for both Letter and A4, one page per sheet — printing it is the point, since the Missouri pages are made to be carried outside.

What is the weekly Missouri note, and does it stop?

One short email a week through 2027, built from this same Missouri data — what to look for that week. It runs the edition year, then stops; it is not a subscription and there is nothing to cancel.

What if the Missouri guide is not what I expected?

Email hello@birchcompass.com within 30 days for a full refund on the Missouri edition, and keep the files either way — asking for them back would be theatre.

Every month of this book has a free page on the site — start with the Missouri guide. The book carries every zone's garden notes; the page only ever shows you yours.

The rest of the Missouri shelf

Also for Missouri