Nature
Field notes
Canyons, coastlines, and the quiet discipline of paying attention outdoors.
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About us
A tiny team with a big reading list. We write about the outdoors that restores us and the web work that sustains us.
Our story
A journal kept like a field notebook
Hazelwren Notes began in 2019 as a shared document between two studio friends: one who hiked every weekend, one who never closed their laptop. We traded essays on trails and type scales until the document became a habit, and the habit became this journal.
Today we publish one considered story a week — half about slow, deliberate living, half about building an honest web. No hot takes, no growth hacks, no filler. If a piece does not earn its place on your Sunday morning, it does not ship.
9Stories published
5Topic desks
4kWeekly readers
How we work
Slow by design, precise by habit
Every story passes through three desks: a draft written longhand or in plain text, a critique around a real table with coffee going cold, and a final read-aloud before it meets the page. It takes longer. It reads better.
We keep our footprint small — a rented studio room, secondhand furniture, one good camera between us — and our standards high. When we recommend a tool, a journal, or a trail, we have used it, read it, or walked it.
What we cover
Design
Process diaries
How the work actually gets made — briefs, drafts, dead ends, and launches.
Website
Web craft
Standards, performance, and interfaces that respect their readers.
Marketing
Independent publishing
Journals, newsletters, and the business of staying small on purpose.