Welcome to the Fern podcast as the season turns.

I'm Leah Lane Dirtz and I'm delighted to introduce this Found Sound for March,

created by musician and sound artist Alice Boyd.

For this year's Found Sounds, Alice travels across the UK to meet people inspired by heritage crafts, folklore and the landscape, creating a sonic scrapbook of their practice.

This month, Alice meets organic food grower and writer Claire Rattano in her garden in East Sussex.

While sheltering from the rain, they plant tomato seeds in Claire's greenhouse.

Claire's work has included growing organic vegetables for Otolengi, writing a gardening column

for the Guardian's Saturday magazine, and publishing two books on food growing,

inequality and belonging.

You may wish to pause the podcast here for a moment while you find somewhere warm and

quiet to close your eyes, sit back and settle down into this month's found sound. Claire, can you introduce yourself and your work and also just describe where we are right now?

Sure.

My name's Claire Attenon and I am an organic food grower and a writer.

And more recently, I'm a workers' rights organiser and we're here in my back garden in East Sussex and can you describe some of the sounds

the smells the sights well since spring is around the corner I feel like there's a really distinct shift in the air that has been.

I think you can just feel life burgeoning, even though it's still very much sludgy from winter and it's still quite cool.

There's a feeling in the air that life is about to breach the surface.

And what are we going to do today?

I'm going to sew some seeds today.

I mean, that's what spring is for, at least in my mind.

And these will be the first seeds I've said this year, actually.

I haven't done much early sewing.

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