Field Report 002

Location: Edge of the wild field, beneath cloud cover

Date: High Summer, 2025

Some things close before they fall. Some things curl inward to protect the invisible.

The second entry into the Department arrived unexpectedly, folded like a cup, soft-spined and quivering with seed. At first glance, it appears empty. But within the green lattice is a silence so dense it hums.

DBM-028

Object: Queen Anne’s Lace (Seed Head)

Botanical Name: Daucus carota

Collected: White River Junction, Vermont

Known Uses: Wild ancestor of the cultivated carrot. Seeds used in traditional medicine as an emmenagogue and contraceptive. Associated with wild feminine wisdom, herbal lineage, and edge-dwelling. Umbels often host pollinators and the occasional blood-red floret—said to mark the Queen’s pricked finger.

Classification Tags: Womb Magic, Edge Species, Ancestral Signal, Wild Remains

Annotation:This umbel was found curled in on itself, as if guarding something not yet born—or already lost.

In forgotten herbal texts, it is said that women carried the seeds in their pockets like charms, whispering to the body to remember its own rhythms. The dried cup becomes a cradle for intention, or a trap for wandering time.

“I picked it thinking it was closing for the night. But it was closing for good.”

We believe this specimen contains an imprint—one we have not yet learned to read.