The Duck & Herring Co. currently publishes its Pocket Field Guides twice a year. A subscription lasts four issues or, at our current rate, two years. It costs $32 and you don't have to pay for shipping.

Subscribe to us and we'll send you a fresh copy of the current issue. You'll enjoy it and tell your friends about it. Weeks will pass. You'll think of The Duck & Herring Co. occasionally. Then, quite honestly, you'll probably forget that you subscribed to us. And at perhaps just the right time, just when you really start to enjoy the warming weather, or just when you're in the mood to don a jacket and light a fire, you'll receive in the mail a new Pocket Field Guide with great writing, tasty recipes, seasonal must-dos, highlights in the night sky (Northern Hemisphere), comedy pieces, and more. What a pleasant surprise!

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New to The Duck & Herring Co.? Or just want to help a pal or family member catch up to the here and now of our nearly inconsequential (but still powerful!) invention known as Pocket Field Guides? A PFG Gift Pack may be just the thing for you.

Buy this gift pack and we'll send you the Warm Weather Field Guide for 2007, as well as our Summer Field Guide for 2006, a mint-hued collection which features great writing from Johnny Pence, Gale Martin, Alistair Simons, Jamie Allen, Gary Beck, Andy P. Jones, David Kennerly, and Tom Barlow, on summery subjects like eternal baseball, fishing, Ben Franklin's pre-electricity notes, wiping out on a motorcycle, a convenience-store crush, the threat of violence at summer school, being a bigot, eating too much fast food, poetry and sex. This issue also includes special D&H sections on highlights in the summer night sky (which are dated now), food/drink you should serve/eat/drink (along with their recipes, which are never dated), and summer gardening tips (which never go out of style). Further, the following extras: a song contest and a summer scavenger hunt.

Ready to have some Hot Fun?

During the warm weather of ought-seven, the editors of The Duck & Herring Co. passed many a sweaty afternoon in the dining room of the late Joel Chandler Harris, best known as the author of the Br’er Rabbit stories. His home is now a museum known as The Wren’s Nest, a sanctuary for storytelling.

The editors of the world-famous Pocket Field Guide were there with The Wren’s Nest Publishing Co., a group of fresh-faced high school editors from all across metropolitan Atlanta. Over the course of the summer, these young editors produced their own literary magazine, one so well crafted and designed that The Duck & Herring Co. briefly considered halting the entire endeavor before they surpassed us and made us their interns. But following the advice of an old salt with strong opinions regarding how close one should keep one’s competition—opinions expressed with, it must be said, a rather ribald vocabulary—we carried on, and at the end of the summer, the student editors launched Soy Nut Butter at the Decatur Book Festival.

Now you can have your own copy of this fine collection of short fiction, poetry, photography, and thoughts on America’s second favorite alternative to peanut butter (following salted, roasted almond butter). The $5 purchase price will support next summer’s student editors and is tax deductible as a contribution to The Wren’s Nest.

Go buy it now, then come back (please) for your PFG.

We have a vision that one day we'll offer a full catalog of seasonal gear for all your wardrobe needs. But a company has got to start somewhere, and we're starting right here, selling t-shirts with our logo on it, through CafePress.com.

Men, a personal question: Do you have a t-shirt with a fish on it? If you don't, how can you call yourself a man?

And ladies, do you have a t-shirt or wife-beater with a mallard in flight across your breast? Of course you don't.

Click here to infuse your sartorial needs with D&H style.