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namu.club

a club for trees, by people who love them

branch /01 -- gathering

Tree people, find each other.

An open gathering of arborists, planters, dendrologists, hobbyists, and wanderers who simply stop and look up. Members propose walks, identify species in shared photo logs, and trade saplings by post.

branch /02 -- field walks

Walks under the canopy.

Monthly slow walks in mapped groves -- old oaks of the Pyrenees, ginkgo rows in late October, the camphor giants of Jeju. No itinerary, only a meeting tree and a shared thermos.

branch /03 -- the field guide

Notes for the curious.

A growing field guide, written collectively. Bark patterns, leaf phyllotaxis, the names trees carry across languages, and the small rituals of planting on the right moon.

branch /04 -- saplings exchange

Saplings travel by mail.

A members-only seed and sapling exchange. Acorns from the Loire, korean pine cones from Gangwon, and the occasional persimmon stone -- packed in moss, signed off on a paper card.

branch /05 -- the canopy log

The canopy log.

A quarterly publication, riso-printed in chrome silver and branch green, collecting essays, leaf rubbings, and small fictions about the trees we live under.

/ membership rituals

How one joins the club.

No tier. No fee. A few small rituals.

01

Adopt a tree.

Choose a tree near where you live. Visit it through one full year. Send the club four notes -- one each season.

02

Send a leaf.

One pressed leaf, real or drawn, with the species and the place. We file it in the canopy archive in Seoul.

03

Plant something.

Anything -- a seed in a pot, a sapling in a yard, an acorn pressed into a roadside hollow. Tell us where, and the year.

04

Walk with us.

Attend a club walk, or invent your own. Send back a route, a tree, a photograph, or a paragraph.