The Field Guide street newspaper is hot off the press

A dream project for so long, The Field Guide now exists in print for the first time – and it’s available for free from this weekend.

Extra, extra – read all about it!

I started writing The Field Guide four years ago when I returned to Toowoomba after a decade or so away. I felt that I was always learning about events after they happened. Always going to the new cafe or bar and forgetting to support my old faithfuls. Meeting new people who really deserved much more publicity and support than they were getting.

And so: The Field Guide.

It’s been a dream of mine since the beginning that TFG would someday exist in print too, and this weekend, that dream comes true! (Well, technically it’s already come true, as I received them from the printers on Thursday.)

In addition to this online platform, The Field Guide will now also be a free street newspaper, released at the beginning of each season and available to collect from local cafés, bars and shops. Thanks to a small crew of advertisers – Brendan Mayles, The Empire Theatre, Thibault & Donaldson and Grand Central – The Field Guide has a new life and can continue to support local businesses and people.

This first edition is full of suggestions for celebrating the best of spring. It felt right to launch now, when we all emerge slightly rumpled by the August winds, embracing a new energy and welcoming hundreds of thousands of visitors into our parks, cafes, shops and bars. No doubt we’ll be convincing a few visitors that if they lived here too, they’d already be home.

From this weekend, you’ll find free copies in your favourite local businesses (for a full list of stockists, click here). If you’re interested in contributing to, advertising in or stocking TFG newspapers, please get in touch at those links!

I hope you love it –

Phoebe Tully
Editor

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Lead photograph by Louisa Sorensen