Blum’s Farmer’s and Planter’s Almanac has been continuously published since it was first printed in 1828 by John Christian Blum, in his home on Main Street in the Moravian town of Salem. Today the Blum House in Old Salem is open to visitors and displays Blum's original printing press, as well as early type found archaeologically on the Blum House lot.

The Goslen's, a Moravian family with deep roots in the Winston-Salem community and in printing, purchased the rights to Blum’s Almanac in the 1920s, and Goslen Printing Company continues its publication today.

Blum’s Almanac 2012 features an article about Old Salem Museums & Gardens -- gardens and agriculture have been an essential part of life for the Moravians since settling their North Carolina land in 1753.

With their calendar of lunar cycles, almanacs have played an integral role in the lives of farmers and planters for countless generations. One need only spend a day at the beach and observe the rise and fall of the tides to appreciate the power of the moon. 

As Nobel Prize winner for Physics (1923),

Dr. Robert A. Millikan remarked:

"I do know that if man is not affected

in some way by the planets, sun and moon,

he is the only thing on earth that is not."

(from Raising with the Moon,

Jack Pyle and Taylor Reese, 1993).

Order your Blum's Almanac today! Also available, The Gardens of Salem by Darrell Spencer with photographs by Virginia Weiler, and many other wonderful garden publications.