A reflective essay exploring why food behaves less like a product and more like a system, and what gardening teaches us about living with that reality.
Author Archives: Earthly Comforts
When to Cut Back Salvias
When to cut back salvias for spring in the UK, explained through real gardening experience, timing, and plant behaviour.
After Control
A reflective exploration of deep soil as memory, exchange, and ecological decision-maker.
Australian Insects
Explore Australia’s flies, cicadas, and true bugs, revealing how sound, speed, and decomposition shape ecosystems and everyday life.
Moving a Phormium
A reflective guide to moving mature phormiums, exploring timing, division, and the realities of transplanting established garden plants.
Earthly Comforts 