A reflective pairing of two original poems written fourteen years apart, exploring how time, gardening and nature transform our understanding of autumn, fallen leaves and the quiet cycles of life.
Monthly Archives: Aug 2026
If the Weeds Took Over
What if the weeds finally stopped waiting for our mistakes? A thoughtful and quietly humorous look at resilience, adaptation and what weeds can teach us about gardening.
Raised Beds
Discover how to keep raised bed soil healthy for years with practical advice from a working gardener, including composting, feeding, watering and seasonal maintenance.
Nature Rarely Produces Waste
Discover why nature has almost no concept of waste and how gardeners witness the world’s oldest recycling system every day. Explore composting, soil health, biodiversity and why the natural world continually recycles what humanity too often throws away.
COVID: The Pandemic That Apparently Ended
COVID may no longer dominate the headlines, but it still disrupts lives. A personal reflection on illness, recovery, public perception and the irony of a virus many believe has simply gone away.
The Gardener's Curious Journal 