The Sentimental Gardener

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A reflective Substack and podcast exploring gardens as places of memory, culture and restoration. Essays and conversations about how tending something alive and being surrounded by nature shapes who we are.

Free Subscription Benefits

  • Free podcast update newsletters

Paid Subcription Benefits

  • Extended section in newsletters: "What The Garden Said"
  • Access to Apple podcast subscriber series 'Sentimental Friends' + ability to ask guests questions
  • A way to support the podcast and the people who make it happen

About Cass Dowding

Writer + regular contributor ABC Organic Gardener magazine. Host: The Sentimental Gardener podcast. Exploring what nature teaches us about being better humans.

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