July 24

As the Season Turns

Ffern

Arts

4.9 • 846 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In July, the ancient woodland cools us down - while we explore the hot-weather roots of some of the month's many names. In the garden Zoe gives us some charms against pests, and we find out what to eat and plant in the veg patch. Our folktale tells of fairies, while The Breath sing 'Only Stories', a song about Ríoghnach's childhood summers spent in West Cork. This episode also features a short performance from Sam Lee and original music from Avery Bright, excerpts from Ffern's short film 'A Tuscan Summer'. You can watch it at ffern.co/cinema 'As the Season Turns' is a podcast created by Ffern in collaboration with the nature writer and author of the Seasonal Almanac, Lia Leendertz. Lia is joined by novelist Zoe Gilbert and folk musicians Ríoghnach Connolly and Stuart McCallum of The Breath. Geoff Bird produces and Catriona Bolt is Ffern's in-house production coordinator. Each episode, released on the first of the month, is a guide to what to look out for in the month ahead - from the sky above to the land below. Ffern is an organic fragrance maker based in Somerset. You can learn more about Ffern's seasonal eau de parfum at ffern.co

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Fern podcast as the season turns.
0:11.0	Released on the first of each month, the episodes follow the changing landscape of the seasons,
0:17.0	from the moon and the stars to the tides and the trees. I'm Leah Lainters, author of
0:23.5	The Almanac, a seasonal guide, and this podcast is a collaboration between myself and Fern,
0:29.9	makers of small batch organic perfume. I love wearing Fern, in my quest to live in tune with
0:36.1	the seasons, applying the season's perfume is a lovely little ritual that reminds me to use all my senses.
0:43.8	We hope that this brief guide to the month ahead will awaken you to the rhythms of the year
0:48.9	and help you to settle deeper into the seasons.
1:03.4	Names for July.
1:06.0	July in modern English.
1:09.1	Julie in Scots and Auster Scots.
1:11.0	Juié in Gerrier. Auster Scots. Jouillet in Gerrier.
1:20.6	Julius Caesar named July, Julius, after himself, in 46 BC, as a pat on the back for reforming the Roman calendar and creating the, you guessed it, Julian calendar.
1:26.8	Before this, July was known as Quintillis, the fifth month,
1:31.2	the first month then being March.
1:33.7	But no trace of Quintillus has remained in the names of the month,
1:37.5	while several are based on Julius.
1:40.4	The Manx Jera Sauri may look as if it's related, but in fact, jera means end, and sauri means summer.
1:50.0	This seems impossibly pessimistic to our modern way of thinking, but is related to a more complex understanding of the agricultural patterns of the year than to any more romantic sense of summer,
2:01.6	or indeed to the temperature.
2:04.3	Summer was considered the months of growth,
2:07.3	May, June and July,
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