HeyJaredGood in The Garden
Garden writing by a messy amateur working four plots...compost obsessed and reading a lot
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Nearly Autumn Glories (opens the original)
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Reading Wendell Berry for 35 years (opens the original)
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This long post has many photos. Good to read in browser. It is mostly about reading and only at the end becomes about gardening. So, dear here-for-the-Garden-readers, if you don’t fancy it, just scroll on down.***I first read Wendell Berry, who died aged 92 on 31 August 2026, when his Standing on Earth Selected Essays appeared from Golgonooza Press in 1991. I was a spring chicken then, aged 36, into my fifth year of teaching literature post-Ph.D., and and five-six years away from founding The Re
A Writer who Taught me to Love the Earth and Human Purpose (opens the original)
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Leafmould time (opens the original)
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Now is the time for digging out the old leafmould and volunteers at Calderstones started work on that even as, the day before, other volunteers began collecting this year’s crop.At home I collect leaves and put them directly on beds, hoping the worms will work them down, which they do, to a certain extent, but it has been a revelation of the extent of my sandy wormlessness, seeing in which areas (hottest, driest) the leaves stay unincorporated. At Calderstones we built three one metre square wir
Good After Rain (opens the original)
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