The Vetted Collection · Concept 4 of 4“The Field” — fern green · Cormorant · herbarium
TheVetted Collection
by Your Wandering Roots
Concept 4 · The Field
01Palette — The FieldAnna’s love of green, kept — but a fresher fern with a warm coral accent and a herbarium feel. Deliberately lighter & warmer than Laurel & Lamp’s deep evergreen-and-gold.
Fern
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Deep Fern
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Cream
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Sage tint
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Coral
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Stone
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02TypographyCormorant Garamond — airy, botanical, elegant. Newsreader italics carry the field-note voice. No script.
Display — Cormorant GaramondHeadlines
Every place, walked.
Text — NewsreaderVenue features
A nine-bedroom farmhouse with a barn that seats thirty for dinner and a creek you can hear from the porch. We’ve walked it; the team is already arranged.
Labels — Work SansUI · metadata
Sleeps 189 BedroomsGathering HallNo. 014
Endorsement lockupDetachable
The Vetted Collection · byYour Wandering Roots
Accent — TangerineField-note flourish
vetted · Northern Michigan
03The Card — one venue, mountedThe venue-detail unit: each venue mounted like a herbarium specimen — pressed, labeled, classified. The label is the AEO spec data.
№ 014 · THE COLLECTION
Specimen · The Collection
Lakemore Farmhouse
vetted · Northern Michigan · 2026
Sleeps 18 guests
Bedrooms 9
Gathering 30 seated
Team chef · photographer · guide
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The specimen sheetMounting each venue like a pressed botanical says “real, living, collected with care” — the opposite of crowdsourced inventory.
The grade is the brandOne warm, sun-through-leaves grade across every specimen holds the collection together.
The markA pressed fern in a frame — the field collector’s emblem. (A framed “VC” is the quieter alternate.)
04The List — the herbarium indexThe whole collection as a specimen drawer: small mounted plates, each labeled and numbered. Calm and scannable as it grows.
A collection of retreat places we’ve walked — each paired with a screened local team and a plan that pencils out. Not a listings site. A short list you can trust.
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06Voice — a naturalist, not a friendWR is Anna talking; this is the honest field-collector’s eye.
Not this — WR register
“Stunning luxury venues that’ll blow your guests away — without you killing yourself!!”
This — The Vetted Collection
“A nine-bedroom farmhouse with a barn that seats thirty. We’ve walked it. The team is arranged.”
“Every place, walked. Every team, chosen.”
“We don’t list venues. We vouch for them.”
“A budget, a plan, a venue, and a team — handed to you.”
Independent of Wandering Roots
WR stays Anna’s casual, personal, adventure brand. The Vetted Collection is the editorial line WR vouches for — different voice, different look, a small endorsement signature.
Distinct from Laurel & Lamp
L&L is deep evergreen + gold. The Field is a fresher fern + coral, herbarium not hearth. Two specialists who partner, never one company in two hats.