January 22
As the Season Turns
As the Season Turns
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
For our first episode of 2022, we begin a year-long acquaintance with the English oak. We head inside the beehive, explore the history of wassailing, and follow the epic migration of the humpback whale. We find out what's in season and check in with winter's brightest bird: the robin. As the Season Turns is an award-winning podcast presented by Lia Leendertz and created by Ffern, makers of small-batch, seasonal perfume. To find out more visit www.ffern.co
Here are the Wassailing Words: Here’s to thee, old apple-tree, Whence thou may’st bud, and whence thou may’st blow, And whence thou may’st bear apples enow Hats full! caps full! Bushel-bushel-sacks full, And my pockets full, too, huzza!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Fern podcast, as the season turns. |
| 0:07.0 | Released on the first of the month, each episode will be following the changing landscape of the seasons, |
| 0:15.0 | from the moon and the stars to the tides and the trees. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Leah Lainters, author of The Almanac, a seasonal guide, |
| 0:25.2 | and this podcast is created by Fern, |
| 0:28.1 | makers of small batch organic perfume, |
| 0:31.1 | who blend, barrel age and bottle four fragrances a year, |
| 0:35.1 | released at the equinoxes and solstices. |
| 0:41.0 | We hope that this brief guide to the month ahead will awaken you to the rhythms of the year and help you to settle deeper into the seasons. |
| 0:52.1 | It's January. Happy New Year. January is a tough one and often brings with it the January blues. Through the first half of winter there was Christmas to look forward to, but now, while it's still cold and dark, colder than ever in fact, but with little hint of fun on the horizon, plus everyone's now |
| 1:12.0 | telling you to eat salad. I think we should learn from our ancestors for whom Christmas, or |
| 1:17.1 | rather Christmas tide, continued in relatively full swing until 12th night on the 5th of January, |
| 1:22.7 | and only then, after another round of feasting and song, began the year in earnest. |
| 1:28.3 | The trick I think to getting through January well is to get outdoors if you can, |
| 1:33.3 | because there's actually so much beauty. |
| 1:36.3 | The bones of the countryside are clearly visible now, |
| 1:39.3 | utterly stripped of any softening leaves or flowers. |
| 1:43.3 | A fuzz of purple stems against rows of stubble, |
| 1:48.0 | low light slanting across a field and picking up every ridge and furrow, the dips holding little |
| 1:53.3 | pockets of last night's frost. It's gorgeous, but you do have to work a little harder for it. |
| 2:00.9 | But if you can find the beauty and joy in January, well, you can find it anywhere. |
| 2:13.9 | The oak tree in January. |
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