# These are the things my garden told me

Gardening as a subversive act. In service of reparative relationships.

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## [Beltane lessons](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/beltane-lessons)

_2026-05-01 · afroliage_

from the garden on May Day

## [On Writing](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/on-writing)

_2026-02-25 · afroliage_

Without the garden, but with a wife...

## [On Imbolc](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/on-imbolc)

_2026-02-01 · afroliage_

Lighting the sacred fires

## [Light water](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/light-water)

_2026-01-27 · afroliage_

In search of the joy of human light flowing through dark times.

## [On imbalance](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/on-imbalance)

_2023-09-25 · afroliage_

The autumn equinox and the gifts of the darker half of the garden year

## [Lughnasadh, again](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/lughnasadh-again)

_2023-08-01 · afroliage_

A publication week excerpt from Uprooting

## [Time is a spiral](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/time-is-a-spiral)

_2023-07-22 · afroliage_

Two weeks to full circle and musings on the connected crises of our times

## [Nearing Harvest](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/nearing-harvest)

_2023-07-11 · afroliage_

It is nearly the end of the school year.

## [After Solstice](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/after-solstice)

_2023-07-04 · afroliage_

And a July excerpt from Uprooting

## [Garden time](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/garden-time)

_2023-05-01 · afroliage_

Beltane fires and an excerpt from Uprooting

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## [Ēostre](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/eostre)

_2023-04-09 · afroliage_

I woke up thinking of the garden, which is as it should be.

## [Tipping point](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/tipping-point)

_2023-03-20 · afroliage_

The grip of winter lingers, hard to shake off like a knot deep between my shoulder blades.

## [From the belly of the earth](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/from-the-belly-of-the-earth)

_2023-02-05 · afroliage_

I recognise the feeling now, my fourth cycling through this mark in the year, the third time while paying attention.

## [Breathe](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/breathe)

_2022-05-25 · afroliage_

I am sat at my laptop staring at the garden trying to find the words.

## [Uprooting a new year](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/uprooting-a-new-year)

_2021-12-31 · afroliage_

I had planned to spend the last day of the year in the garden.

## [Death, Love, Samhain](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/death-love-samhain)

_2021-11-03 · afroliage_

If the sun never sets on the British Empire, let me be of the realms of the moon.

## [Lughnasadh](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/lughnasadh)

_2021-08-01 · afroliage_

I try to understand the wound.

## [Before Beltane](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/before-beltane)

_2021-05-03 · afroliage_

It is May.

## [Ostara](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/ostara)

_2021-03-21 · afroliage_

Yesterday was the spring equinox.

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## [Imbolc](https://afroliage.substack.com/p/imbolc)

_2021-02-01 · afroliage_

I wake on the last day of January with a strong urge to tidy the house.