Welcome to the first episode of Gardening Out Loud, a short and sweet audio exploration of what is curious and compelling in the garden each week.

So much garden content is based on the way things look, or what can be produced or extracted, but I wanted to try to capture a bit about what it’s like to be here, in the moment, in this little scrap of urban jungle. I want to broadcast a little of the delight it gives me.

I hope that you’ll give me 15 to 20 minutes each week, and in doing that, give them to yourself. Let’s take the time to get grounded together.

In this episode . . .

Natural wonders at home and abroad. The return of the morning chorus. Meet the Spring Garden. Mini daffodils nodding their yellow heads. Perennial herbs and flowers poking through soil. The first winter sowing update. The garden’s first ever hellebore bloom.

See photos and more at: https://gardeningoutloud.substack.com/p/episode-1-welcome-to-the-garden/.