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An eco-philosophical essay on culture and cultivation.
Details
Status:
Forthcoming.
Publication:
Commissioned for the inaugural issue of Meander Magazine.
Where to read:
Preorder the issue here.
About
Meander is a magazine for bioregional culture, slow living, and regenerative futures.
The inaugural issue of Autumn 2025, is titled Returning to Place, with contributors including Bayo Akomolafe, Bill Reed, and other leading voices in the regenerative field. My own essay explores the history of gardens and gardening, and the connections between culture and cultivation.
Here’s a short excerpt:
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The philosophical and spiritual potency of the Garden comes not only from reflection, but from practice — from a grounded, embodied engagement with the specificities of place, and with how a place supports life.
This means learning the soil's profile, the micro-climates of a plot, the needs and tendencies of particular species. It means reattuning ourselves to the weather, to natural patterns and cycles, to ecological limits.
These are not trivial considerations — and yet our prevailing culture treats them as such. In our digital age, when we seem to have forgotten that our survival in fact depends on the soil, gardening can quite literally bring us back to our senses.
Samples
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