A Season in Full Voice

By now, the quiet whispers of early spring have grown into a chorus. The garden is no longer murmuring, it’s singing. June arrives with a fullness that’s hard to ignore: bees hum from bloom to bloom, peas climb toward the sun, calendula gleams like tiny suns at our feet. The pulse of life is everywhere, and it’s speaking in bold, beautiful language.

In May, we listened. In June, we are invited to respond.

This is the time of year when our energy begins to mirror the garden’s own—curious, outward, expressive. We find ourselves reaching for the trowel more often, staying out just a little longer, swept into the rhythm of warm days and lengthening light. The work feels alive now. There's joy in it. And there’s joy in being part of it.

As the garden calls us into a deeper relationship, we pause to honor our smallest co-gardeners—pollinators. Bees with golden saddlebags of pollen, butterflies dancing between blooms, hummingbirds stitching air to flower. Their presence is more than charming; it is essential. With every nectar sip and wingbeat, they stitch together the living world. During Pollinator Week (June 17–23), let’s plant for them with purpose. A patch of native flowers, a blooming herb spiral, or even letting the clover grow tall—each act says, you belong here.

And then, at the height of this abundant season, comes the Summer Solstice on June 20, our longest day. A threshold of light. A moment suspended in golden stillness. However you choose to mark it, through a quiet moment in the garden, a shared meal, or a circle of gratitude, may it root you in presence. These are the days to let the sun warm your back and remind you: you, too, are part of this cycle.

As we tend, the garden gives back. The taste of fresh herbs pinched between thumb and forefinger. The cool hush beneath a canopy of leaves. The calm that arrives when our hands are in the soil. This is reciprocity in action—not transactional, but relational. Mutual care.

Wishing you long light, joyful tending, and a garden that speaks to you clearly, lovingly, and often.