April

As the Season Turns

Ffern

Arts

4.9 • 846 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

For April we begin the month with some last-minute Easter crafts and end it in the bluebell wood. We tell tales of the stars and cook from the garden, learning along the way why you should leave a wild patch amid your planting. And The Breath give us a song for long April journeys. 'As the Season Turns' is a podcast created by Ffern in collaboration with the nature writer and author of the Seasonal Almanac, Lia Leendertz. Lia is joined by novelist Zoe Gilbert and folk musicians Ríoghnach Connolly and Stuart McCallum of The Breath. Geoff Bird produces and Catriona Bolt is Ffern's in-house production coordinator. Each episode, released on the first of the month, is a guide to what to look out for in the month ahead - from the sky above to the land below. Ffern is an organic fragrance maker based in Somerset. You can learn more about Ffern's seasonal eau de parfum at 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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