February 23

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 February 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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February's episode explores the first, tiny shoots of spring - the bulbs are emerging, the frogs are breeding and Lia reminds us it's time to plant chillis. We visit the Isles of Scilly for early narcissi and the Mendip Hills for a rainstorm recorded by Alice Boyd. Zoe Gilbert tells tales of snowdrops and to close, Gwilym Bowen Rhys sings 'Ambell i gân', a song to guard against heartbreak and bad weather. 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.
0:09.3	Released on the first of the month, each episode will follow the changing landscape of the seasons,
0:14.9	from the moon and the stars to the tides in the trees.
0:18.6	I'm Leah Lainters, author of The Almanac, a seasonal guide. And this podcast is a
0:24.3	collaboration between myself and Fern, makers of small batch organic perfume, who blend
0:30.9	barrelage and bottle four fragrances a year, released at the equinoxes and solstices. To say thank you for following along,
0:39.7	each month the first 12 listeners who sign up to the Fern waiting list
0:44.1	will receive a box of delicious organic Fern tea with their first bottle.
0:50.2	Search Fern.co forward slash podcast tea
0:54.0	or find the link in the podcast description to sign up.
0:58.5	We hope that this brief guide to the month ahead will awaken you to the rhythms of the year
1:04.0	and help you to settle deeper into the seasons.
1:11.7	The Sunrise The Sunrise seasons. The sunrise.
1:14.5	On the 1st of February, the sun rises at 7.55am in Padstow in Cornwall, while up in Inverness
1:22.6	in Scotland, it rises at 8.18 a.m. The very observant and those with a head for numbers might notice how those numbers are squeezing closer together month by month.
1:35.4	With Padstow's sunrise, 25 minutes earlier than it was on January 1st, but Invernesses a whole 40 minutes earlier.
1:47.5	Later on, Inverness will overtake Padstow.
1:54.2	By midsummer, when a good portion of sunshine spills over the North Pole, creating the Arctic circles midnight sun, Inverness will have an hour and a half more daylight each day than Padstow. And so our far north is now
2:03.6	rushing to catch up with our far south, and the difference begins to be noticeable this month,
2:09.3	at least in the numbers. The 2nd of February brings candle mass, the official conclusion
2:16.5	of the Christmas Epiphany season, and the
2:19.2	day on which Christians bring their candles to church to be blessed. For most of us, February also
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