Found Sound for September: Roka Brings Flowers

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

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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This month, Alice meets Roka from Roka Brings Flowers on her narrowboat ‘Leafy Lady’. Roka is a florist and craft maker living a nomadic life on the British waterways. As she and Alice discuss the ups and downs of this way of life, they discover ripe tomatoes, dried elderflower - and the experience of going through a lock. Found Sounds are sonic scrapbooks of field recordings and interviews with people keeping heritage crafts alive. They are part of As the Season Turns, an award-winning podcast 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.
0:11.7	I'm Leah Lainters and I'm delighted to introduce this Found Sound for September, created by musician and sound artist Alice Boyd.
0:21.6	Found sounds are a new addition to as the season turns for 2024.
0:26.6	Brief, meditative episodes for listeners who wish to feel that little bit more immersed in the natural world as we move through the year,
0:35.6	grounding ourselves in nature and the rhythms our ancestors
0:39.1	have always followed. This month, Alice meets Rocca from Rocker brings flowers on her narrowboat,
0:47.1	leafy lady. Rocker is a florist and craftmaker living a nomadic life on the British waterways.
0:54.6	You may wish to pause the podcast here for a moment, while you find somewhere warm and quiet,
1:00.1	to close your eyes, sit back and settle down into this month's Found Sound. There she is.
1:20.6	She's got so many plants on the top.
1:24.0	That's true.
1:25.2	At the moment we have mainly cosmos. That's what's surviving. And at the
1:31.8	back, Julie, Julie, the green house. He's got lots of green tomatoes and I'm waiting patiently.
1:40.2	One day they might turn red, hopefully. So before we go in in can you tell me who you are and what you do
1:47.6	I'm rocker and I bring flowers summer florist and also a flower grower and I live on a narrowboat
1:58.6	oh to unload this water.
2:05.9	Okay, so this is a very wobbly plank at the back.
2:09.0	We're looking at my little greenhouse, which is actually a floating greenhouse, and it's
2:17.2	attached to my narrow boat.
2:19.2	Yeah, I basically built two flower beds.
2:23.0	That's what I had in mind.
2:24.0	I want to create more space for growing because ideally I was like always dreaming of my own farm.
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