Welcome to the Fern podcast as the season turns. I'm Lea Lainters and I'm delighted to introduce this

found sound for September, 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 visits Wild Honey Bee Conservationist and carpenter Matt Somerville in his cottage in Hampshire.

Over the last 14 years, Matt has developed log and tree hives that mimic bees' natural habitats,

with more than 800 hives that mimic bees' natural habitats.

With more than 800 hives installed across farms, gardens and woodlands in the UK,

his work champions the existence and resilience of wild honeybees.

This month you can also join me, Leigh Alainters, as I walk through Bristol's Ashton Court and reflect on the joy of the changing seasons with canopy and stars for their podcast, A Life More Wild.

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 Matt, can you introduce yourself and describe your work?

Hello, my name is Matt Somerville.

I'm, you know, I meet you again and say I'm a beekeeper.

I guess I'm a honeybee conservationist.

I'm really interested in looking at wild honeybees that are leaving freely without

human intervention. And by mimicking, you know, their nest habitat, cavities and trees, we can allow

bees to come and find the nests and develop and through natural selection to be healthy.

And can you describe where we are right now and what we're looking at?

Yeah, so we're in a wood in Hampshire. About 10 foot above us is this hive. I put it up about six years ago and

bees have found it. They're just quietly going in and now. It's early autumn, so they're just

about to get ivy pollen, woken up after a sort of slightly long summer sleep during that hot weather where there's no nectar.

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