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Gary Stewart

Where the garden teaches us how to grow

Together, we'll dig into the connections between nurturing our gardens and nurturing ourselves.

My story

The garden has always been my classroom


There's something quietly profound about putting your hands in soil. I didn't realise it at first — I was just trying to grow tomatoes.
But season after season, I noticed that the lessons coming up from the earth were as much about patience, grief, renewal, and joy as they were about plants.

I'm Gary Stewart, and I've spent years exploring that overlap — the place where horticulture meets the human experience. Whether you have a sprawling allotment or a single pot on a windowsill, I believe gardening has something to say to you.

This newsletter is where I share those conversations — practical growing tips woven together with the bigger picture of what it means to tend to living things, including ourselves.

"The garden doesn't ask you to be perfect. It just asks you to show up."

A few things I love

Content

  • Early morning seed sowing

  • Reading in the garden on a sunny summers day

  • Mud on my boots

  • Coffee in the garden on a fresh morning

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Featured

🌱 Coming Back to the Garden

Jun 15, 2026

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7 min read

🌱 Coming Back to the Garden

On not being yourself for a while, and what the weeds are waiting to teach you when you finally come back outside

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 The Garden Doesn't Wait to Feel Ready

May 9, 2026

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7 min read

🌱 The Garden Doesn't Wait to Feel Ready

What Mental Health Awareness Week taught me about doing the one small thing in front of you

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 When the Ground Forgets How to Drink

May 1, 2026

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6 min read

🌱 When the Ground Forgets How to Drink

Six weeks without rain, and the garden is teaching me something I didn't ask to learn

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart

Articles

🌱 The Ground Beneath Us

Apr 26, 2026

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5 min read

🌱 The Ground Beneath Us

On the quiet courage of clearing out, starting over, and trusting the bare earth

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 When April Can't Make Up Its Mind

Apr 18, 2026

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6 min read

🌱 When April Can't Make Up Its Mind

On reading an unreliable sky, and what the garden asks of us when the season refuses to settle.

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 The Week the Blossom Fell

Apr 10, 2026

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8 min read

🌱 The Week the Blossom Fell

On fleeting beauty, reluctant presence, and what my daughter noticed first

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 The Easter Edition

Apr 5, 2026

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9 min read

🌱 The Easter Edition

Moving from the chaos of the egg hunt to the quiet of the flowerbed.

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 The Rhythm of the Seed

Mar 23, 2026

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6 min read

🌱 The Rhythm of the Seed

What a stretched seedling teaches us about our own foundations.

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 Embrace the Grey Wait

Mar 14, 2026

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7 min read

🌱 Embrace the Grey Wait

We’re leaning into the "wait" today.

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart

"The seeds that concern me most are not the ones that haven't germinated yet. They are the ones I stopped paying attention to — assuming they would just get on with it."— Gary Stewart


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