This is my signature course, and the subject of my current research project exploring and critically examining the manufactured and monetised tension between body and mind, through the lens of a garden ecosystem.

This is a space for garden witches, compost feminists, educators and facilitators looking for a reading group or syllabus that incorporates the Earth, bodywork practitioners, RSE developers, ethnobotanists, and, of course, gardeners who also love books.

Both the book and the course are intentionally interdisciplinary, drawing on and digesting insights from philosophy of emotion right across the disciplines, as well as methodologies and modalities from art (including horticulture!) and the Arts & Crafts Movement in particular, somatics, soil science and regenerative agriculture, poetry, and political engagement. These insights are composted and applied to what I identify and flesh out as The Ginkgo Problem, with urgent implications for the contemporary lived experience: from the role of shame in epistemic corruption, to the precarity and pleasure oppression at the heart of post-pandemic life.

I have designed this course to be an intellectual compost heap on ten of the book’s most provocative chapters, so in taking this course you will also be contributing to its growth and development (and will be credited as such!).

Stay tuned for the programme and opening dates!

Project Events

I will shortly be adding a series of public talks, exhibitions, and academic lectures to this page. Do get in touch if you’d like me to lead or speak at an event at your organisation.