Archive - Before We Leave with Bee Lilyjones and Friends

Williamson Peile's Aerial Voyage in Cumberland, England, 1832

Brookwell and Breadcrumbs Part 3

Jul 13 •

14:17

April. Hello, Buttercup.

Chapter 3 from Before We Leave: A Story of Two Gardeners Moving Home

Jul 7 •

28:18

June 2025

William and Willliamson

Brookwell and Breadcrumbs Part 2. Piecing together a forgotten 19th century history for a 21st century archive.

Jun 24 •

27:50

What might a naturalist count?

On place, measurement and change

Jun 17 •

and

16:26

A New Conversation

Threading Waters: Curated by Julia Adzuki with the Lay it on the Line collective

Jun 2 •

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, and

Amanda C. Sandos

May 2025

On digging my creative life at sixty

and laying a few things on the line here on Substack...

May 9 •

April 2025

Brookwell and Breadcrumbs

and why I think a few out-of-the-way villages in West Cumbria, Northern England, deserve a spot in your Substack history feed.

Apr 27 •

20:54

Primrose and Thorn. March 2025

Chapter 2 from Before We Leave: A Memoir of Two Gardeners Moving Home

Apr 4 •

March 2025

A Peek of Primrose Time

An abridged extract from my ecological memoir Before We Leave: A Memoir of Two Gardeners Moving Home.

Mar 4 •

February 2025

Beyond Moral Victories: A British Perspective on Wendell Berry's The Need to Be Whole

On Reading Chapter VI and Chapter VII of The Need to Be Whole

Feb 25 •

February, Hello Wall: Maidenhair Spleenwort

Epigraph and Chapter One of Before We Leave: A Memoir of Two Gardeners Moving Home

Feb 18 •

On hazards, vulnerabilities and living small

A response to Stacy Boone's essay in words, and music.

Feb 4 •

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