April 25

As the Season Turns

Folk, Seasons, Folk Singer, Ffern, Arts, Society & Culture, Music History, Folklore, Fragrance, Seasonal, Field Recording, Folk Music, Music, Wildlife, Nature, Science

4.8 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Wend your way with us through an April day - through the blossoming orchard, to Japan for our monthly tree ritual, under the oak trees with Zoe, our resident forager, and up into the dusky air with emerging bats. Soundtracked by Sam Lee's song for April, 'The Cuckoo'. As the Season Turns is an award-winning podcast presented by Lia Leendertz and created by Ffern, makers of small-batch, seasonal perfume. To find out more visit www.ffern.co

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Fern podcast as the season turns.
0:18.7	Released on the first of each month, the episodes follow the changing landscape of the seasons,
0:24.9	from the moon and the stars to the tides and the trees.
0:28.8	I'm Leah Lander's, author of The Almanac, a seasonal guide, and this podcast is a collaboration
0:35.4	between myself and fern, makers of small batch organic perfume.
0:40.3	I love wearing Fern, in my quest to live in tune with the seasons, applying the season's
0:46.3	perfume is a lovely little ritual that reminds me to use all my senses.
0:52.3	We hope that this brief guide to the month ahead will awaken you to the rhythms of the
0:57.3	year and help you to settle deeper into the seasons.
1:23.8	Names for April. April in modern English. Epril in Scots and Alster Scots. Averill in Manx.
1:29.9	Ebril in Welsh. Ebril in Cornish, Avri in Gerrier.
1:38.6	The fasti pre'estini is an ancient Roman calendar carved in marble, or at least the remains of it.
1:47.0	Only parts of January, March, April and December survive, but it has left a tantalizing clue as to the origins of the name of April.
1:50.1	The Roman month Aprilis is derived from a perio to open, and the fasti has an idea as to why.
1:58.7	Fruits and flowers and animals and lands and seas do open this month, it says.
2:04.8	Most of the names for April in the languages of the British Isles appear to have originated with
2:09.4	Aprilis, with the possible exceptions of the Irish Gaelic Avrin and the Scots Gaelic Givlin,
2:16.8	which may come from Breon, meaning drops of rain.
2:20.9	In old English, the month was Easter Monas, referring not to Christian Easter necessarily,
2:27.3	but to its namesake, Easter, goddess of hairs, the moon, and the spring.
2:33.7	The Romani name for this month was Brishin Descaro.
2:38.0	April is a month of sunshine and showers, clear blue perfect skies
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