Welcome to the Fern podcast, As the Season Turns.

I'm Leah Lenders and I'm delighted to introduce this Found Sound for November, created by musician and sound artist Alice Boyd.

Found sounds are a new addition to As the Season Turns for 2024,

brief, meditative episodes for listeners who wish to feel that little bit more immersed in the natural world as we move through the year,

grounding ourselves in nature and the rhythms our ancestors

have always followed. This month, Alice is with ecological food grower, forager and cook,

poppy acotcha, in her garden in Devon. 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. So Poppy, can you tell me who you are, what you do, and if you could describe where we are right now as well?

My name is Poppy Okotcha. I've not actually introduced myself for a long while because I've been a mum lately.

I'm not really doing so much speaking work. Yeah, I'm an ecological grower. I'm based in South Devon.

I grow at home, although mostly at the community garden at the moment, and I share what I do in social media and I write and I speak about it.

So we're in the garden, in my garden, in a town in South Dev devon the garden is really long and thin it's about

30 metres long and a six metres wider it's widest and it's got a really old stone wall down one side

which it could be medieval we don't know but the old ladies in the like history department of this town

This bit of the town existed here for a very very long time

So we like to think that it could be medieval

Can you tell me a bit about what we're going to be doing today?

So the garden is has become pretty wild unruly.

I tend to keep a very wild garden anyway,

but usually it's a kind of balance between the wildness and me.

But certainly the last two years while I was pregnant

and since something's been born,

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