February

As the Season Turns

Ffern

Arts

4.9 • 846 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

For February, we tell tales of birds and bad weather - and explore whose songs we might hear in the ancient woodland. The Breath sing 'Don't Rush It', reminding us to slow down during this short month, while elsewhere we visit peatlands and cook seasonal recipes from the garden.⁠ '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.
0:20.0	Released on the first of each month, the episodes follow the changing landscape of the seasons,
0:26.6	from the moon and the stars to the tides and the trees.
0:29.6	I'm Leah Lane Dirtz, author of The Almanac, a seasonal guide,
0:33.6	and this podcast is a collaboration between myself and Fern, makers of small batch organic
0:39.9	perfume. I love wearing Fern. In my quest to live in tune with the seasons, applying the
0:46.5	season's perfume is a lovely little ritual that reminds me to use all my senses. We hope that
0:52.7	this brief guide to the month ahead
0:54.5	will awaken you to the rhythms of the year
0:56.7	and help you to settle deeper into the seasons.
1:15.1	Names for February February, modern English,
1:19.7	February, Scots and Ulster Scots, Fiaura, Irish Gaelic,
1:25.6	Choeuvre,re, Welsh.
1:29.8	Hover, Cornish,
1:31.7	February in Gerrier.
1:34.3	These names for February,
1:36.2	a short transitional month,
1:39.6	all refer back to the Latin Februarius,
1:41.9	which has roots in februm,
1:44.1	meaning fasting or purification.
1:52.4	It's a reference to Lent, which this year, unfortunately for those observing both, begins on Valentine's Day.
1:57.0	February is Solmanap in Old English.
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