Root, Emerge, Flourish & Gather: Harvesting Quiet Voices
Gardening, Reflection, and Seasonal Tending in Conversation with the Land
Root, Emerge, Flourish & Gather is a slow and quiet invitation to deepen your relationship with the land you tend — and the self that is always in conversation with it.
Through gentle gardening, seasonal craft, embodied listening, and sensory reflection, this four-week offering holds space for the quieter voices, human and more-than-human, that are so often drowned out.
Together, we ask: what can the garden teach us if we let it speak first?
Each week is guided by the season’s energy; harvesting, composting, conserving, and beginning again. We’ll gather garlic and broad beans, paint stones, label plants, make electro-culture wands, and record our noticing in haiku, sketches, and seeds. We’ll pause to feel into where the garden wants our care, and where it simply asks us to witness.
This is a gathering for listening, for tending, and for slowing down enough to hear what is being said, by leaf, by plant, by sense, by soil, by silence.
WHERE?
Hawbush Community Gardens, Brierley Hill, DY5 3NL
WHO?
Led by Erika Keshelya
(gardener, maker, community weaver)
WHEN?
Every Saturday in October in alignment with the biodynamic calendar.
WEEKLY RHYTHMS
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Week 1
Summer
Sweetpeas & Rock Painting
A midday session guided by fire element and joy. Plant, paint, and observe your sit spot. Begin a reflective garden journal and connect to your patch. -
Week 2
Autumn
Garlic, Beans & Electroculture
Working with earth and metal elements. Sow for winter, conserve energy, and gather what’s ready to store. We’ll make electroculture rods and prepare for retreat. -
Week 3
Winter
Compost & Cuttings
Guided by water and crone energy. Mulch, compost, take hardwood cuttings, and reflect in the dim light. Label and record the stories of our patch. -
Week 4
Spring
Cover Crop & Share
A closing celebration led by the group. We revisit what we’ve tended, complete unfinished work, and share soup, bread, and stories around a fire.
About Hawbush Gardens
Hawbush Community Gardens, Brierley Hill, DY5 3NL
Hawbush Gardens is a community-rooted green space in Brierley Hill. Home to Ekho Collective, the gardens are held as a place of regeneration, creative expression, nature connection, and seasonal celebration.
The Village of Hawbush Community Gardens provides wellbeing garden, fir pit and circle, roundhouse, kitchen-garden, compostable loo, willow spiral for crafting, an abundance of community gardens, field and ample green spaces.
ACCESS & LOCATION NOTES:
Held at Hawbush Gardens in outdoor and semi-sheltered spaces
Wheelchair access to key areas and pathways
Blankets, tea, seating, and quiet space provided
Final session includes light meal with gluten-free and vegetarian options
Please let us know any access needs when signing up
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
A grounding, reflective space to explore land-based care
Hands-on gardening, mindful practice, and quiet craft
Tools to support stillness, slowness, and non-verbal communication
A soft circle of co-regulation and rest
Synchronicity and relationship with biodynamic calendar.
Moon Cycle, Seasonal Rhythm: body, spirit, and soil
WHO THIS IS FOR
This space is especially held for those who are already part of the Hawbush tending community and the Mother Garden working group, but it is open to others called to explore relationship through quiet interaction, care, and reflection. Gentle, sensory-friendly, and open to all aged 16+.
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