A monthly membership for gardeners who suspect their garden has something to teach them.
The Membership launches on 1 July, when the first
A flawless suburban garden with sprawling lawns and perfect rose hedges.
Just a few pots on a balcony.
A scrappy inherited patch you’re still figuring out.
A wild corner you mostly ignore but nonetheless enjoy.
Regardless, somewhere along the way, you started gardening because you felt drawn to it.
But have you considered what types of meaning, connection and relationship you're growing, alongside the shrubs and greenery?
You water. You prune. You pull. You plant. You tidy.
And repeat.
And then... slowly, almost invisibly, gardening shifts into just another responsibility.
You feel it when you kneel down.
When you notice a new bud.
When you catch the scent of something blooming at dusk.
As someone with a PhD in Environmental Ethics, I've spent years thinking about how humans relate to the natural world.
Belonging. Embeddedness. Reciprocity. Kinship.
But at home, in my own garden, I sometimes found myself treating gardening like just a set of tasks: Water. Trim. Train. Replace.
And one day I realised: I was still relating to my garden as just another to-do.
But I wanted it to feel deeper.
That shift is what Growing Meaning is built around.
Growing Meaning is a monthly membership for anyone who tends a patch of earth (however large or small) and senses there is more depth available.
This is not a technical gardening course. It will not teach you pruning systems, planting schedules or fertiliser ratios.
Instead, it prompts you to think about your garden in a new way, with a new idea each month.
It's a meaning-boost without having to take on any extra to-do's!
Once a month, I release a short audio episode - about fifteen minutes - built around a single theme (for you to listen to whenever, while driving or while working and walking in your garden). There's also a companion PDF if you'd rather read than listen.
No live sessions to schedule around, no falling behind, no homework. Just one idea, when you're ready for it, that goes a little deeper than most garden content dares to go.
Join whenever you're ready - your first theme will be waiting for you. After that, a new one arrives on the first of every month.
Each theme is completely standalone. Miss a month? Pick up when you can.
Well, I have a PhD in Environmental Ethics, which means I've spent a long time thinking about what it actually means to live in relationship with the natural world - not just alongside it, but genuinely in it.
Growing Meaning is where that thinking meets real soil.
Each monthly episode takes one idea - like what slowness actually asks of us, what a garden teaches about humility that nothing else quite can, what it means to belong to a particular patch of the earth - and sits with it properly.
Not a lecture. Not a how-to. More like a conversation you didn't know you needed, that you can have while you're doing the watering.
You garden for reasons that are hard to explain to people who don't.
You sometimes feel, in the garden, that something is being asked of you - and you'd like to understand that better.
You want to gain more meaning and fulfilment from something you're already doing anyway.
It is not for you if:
You want a technical horticulture course.
You’re primarily focused on maximising yield.
You see gardening purely as landscaping.
Less than a few extra plants from the nursery ;)
Each month, you receive:
• One audio episode to listen at your pace and an optional PDF to go through.
• Access to your private member library.
• Gentle reflection prompts to keep you inspired.
No busywork.
No pressure.
No falling behind.
Just depth, layered slowly & doably.
Join any time and start straight away. New content is then released on the first of every following month.
Imagine your garden becoming:
A rhythm marker.
A seasonal teacher.
A quiet companion.
The very first time I planted carrot seeds with my kids I read on the back of the packet that the time from seed to harvest was ninety days. Ninety days! It felt absurdly slow. But that's exactly the point: a carrot cannot be reasoned with, rushed, or optimised, no matter how much we try.
The episode explores this idea and guides you to think about the difference between slow time and wasted time, two things our culture has collapsed into one, but which are not the same at all.
The ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu put it well: "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." The garden knows this. And it's waiting to remind us.
I'm Jess, mom of 3 with a PhD in Environmental Ethics.
As an environmental philosopher, I spent over a decade considering how people can live in greater connection with nature.
I've published, lectured and even presented on this internationally.
Now I translate those ideas into something practical and meaningful - the kind you can actually connect with between pruning sessions and the potting bench.
I love spending time in my own garden with my kids, especially our little veggie patch. That said, I 100% admit that I garden with more enthusiasm than skill, and at the moment my method is to throw seeds at the ground and hope something takes. My mom, on the other hand, has the greenest thumbs around and from the youngest age I was raised to appreciate all the small and wonderful signs of life hiding in a garden.
My goal now is to share the lessons and wonders the garden offers - and to help you go a little deeper into both.
Because we're still in the very first year since Growing Meaning launched, those who join now will have their membership price locked in for life.
As the programme grows and evolves, pricing will likely shift to reflect its full value.
But founding members, like you, won’t be affected.
This is my way of honouring those who step in early and help shape what Growing Meaning becomes.
No. Pots on a balcony count. So does a single bed you're figuring out. The garden is the starting point, not a qualification.
Fifteen minutes of listening per month, whenever suits you. The PDF is there if you want to go further, but it's optional.
No, you can join anytime during the month and you'll get that month's content immediately.
You can’t! There’s nothing to keep up with.
If a month feels full, you simply come back to listen when you’re ready.
No. It's philosophical and relational - rooted in ethics and the kind of wonder that doesn't require any particular belief system.
Yes. Anytime.
"In a world rife with posturing, photoshop and fake, this is the real thing. 100% authentic... with a message that leaves one wanting to be a more real and involved human-being"
"A compelling message that is delivered with great skill, rooted in a wealth of knowledge and with deep authenticity."
"The perfect blend of credible and conversational. Jess has all the clout to compel her audiences to pay attention and all the warmth to make them want to."
"Informative and inspiring in equal measure."
Let's deepen what you're already doing.
Growing Meaning Membership
By subscribing to the Growing Meaning Membership offered by ReGrounded, you agree to the following Terms & Conditions:
1. Membership & Billing
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Every child, family, person and circumstance is different.
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