The Ground Beneath Our Feet A GeoMeditation on Stones in a Craigleith Garden

This article aims to bring to mind the material narrative of the planet, working on the fluctuation of scale between the vastness of the earth's mantle and the direct encounter with sandstone rocks on its surface. It is an auto-ethnographic investigation into a suburban garden and the stones therein. This article uses "noticing" as a methodological principle of engagement with the world, examining the intra-actions of human activity and movement and planetary agency. The focus is on sedimentary rock, residues of an ambulant underground flow from a nearby quarry, and how they imbricate the garden with the modern socioeconomic processes of suburbanization, colonization, and extractivism. The article thus provokes a rethinking of "ground" as transient and ephemeral yet entangled with the cultural politics of cultivation.