A gardener seeks solace in the earth.

Farrow by Miriam Webster

Read by Molly Holohan

Synopsis

On the day of his Grandmother's death, a gardener digs back through the fertile ground of his memory, seeking something down in the roots of his family tree.

He finds comfort amongst fecund, and a connection to the earth few of us will ever understand.

Farrow delivers a sensory experience that goes beyond the page or the headphones, and leaves listeners tingling. 

Listeners are advised that this episode of Unfolded comes with a language and content warning. 

About Miriam Webster 

Miriam Webster's fiction and essays have been published in Aniko Magazine, HEAT, Island, Overland, The Suburban Review, swim meet lit mag and certain zines. She was a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow and won the Peter Steele Poetry Award in 2025.

Her first book, The Slip, is out now.

Unfolded is produced with support from the Melbourne Public Humanities Initiative, on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin Nation.

The producers would like to pay their respects to the traditional owners, to their Elders past and present, and to acknowledge their storytelling history, which goes back tens of thousands of years.