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Stuff Mom Never Told You

Activists Around the World: Dr. Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Stuff Mom Never Told You

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.04.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Biochemist, botanist, author and climate change visionary Dr. Diana Beresford-Kroeger has earned the nickname 'The First Lady of the Forest'. We dig into her story and accomplishments.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:09.3

Hey, this is Annie.

0:10.5

And Samantha.

0:11.4

And welcome to Stuff I Never Told Your production of IHeart Radio.

0:25.2

And welcome to another activist around the world.

0:30.4

And for today's activists, we are going back to, I guess, just my love of Ireland.

0:34.9

I've been focusing on Ireland for a while, so I don't know.

0:36.1

This came at happenstance. But with that, with it being April, which is

0:39.5

Environmental Awareness Month, we're trying to care about the world. We wanted to talk about

0:44.6

biologists, chemists, all those people who are making the world a better place. So that brought

0:49.5

me to talking about the iconic Dr. Diana Bersford-Croger. So Dr. Kroger is a biochemist, botanist,

0:57.7

author, and climate change visionary. And this is according to her own website, but also

1:02.1

many of people. Her biorees like the beginning of an Irish folk tell, which you know,

1:08.2

again, I love it, with her being an orphan in Ireland, raised by

1:12.3

Irish elders who instruct her to use the Celtic understanding of preserving nature and saving

1:18.5

their community and honestly the world. Something she has taken to heart and has been doing

1:23.6

the work, like all the work, including writing, documentaries, all the things.

1:28.5

So this is from her site on Diane Beersford-Croger.com.

1:33.0

She possesses a unique understanding of modern Western science and ancient Celtic knowledge.

1:38.5

Orphoned in Ireland in her youth, Bersford-Croger was educated by her Irish elders,

1:42.9

who instructed her in the Brehonon knowledge of plants and nature.

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