June 24

As the Season Turns

Ffern

Arts

4.9 • 846 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

For June, we spend time in the garden - with squirrels and foxes, nectar-rich flowers and a glut of early summer vegetables. The Breath play 'For You', and we consider the old names for the month and its moons. We delve deep into the Forest of Dean to look for rewilded boar, and recount a folktale about them from the Brothers Grimm. '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.
0:13.0	Released on the first of each month, the episodes follow the changing landscape of the seasons, from the moon and the
0:22.0	stars to the tides and the trees.
0:25.7	I'm Leah Lane Derns, author of The Almanac, a seasonal guide, and this podcast is a collaboration
0:32.5	between myself and Fern, makers of small batch organic perfume.
0:48.9	I love wearing Fern. In my quest to live in tune with the seasons, applying the season's perfume is a lovely little ritual that reminds me to use all my senses.
0:55.8	We hope that this brief guide to the month ahead
0:58.7	will awaken you to the rhythms of the year
1:01.1	and help you to settle deeper into the seasons. Names for June.
1:21.3	June in modern English.
1:25.7	June, in Scots and Auster Scots, Join, in Gerrier.
1:31.8	Scots, Alster Scots and Jersey Gerrier have derivations of June
1:36.1	from the Latin name for the month Junius,
1:39.7	which may be named either after the Roman goddess of marriage, Juno, or the Latin Iuniores, meaning younger ones or juniors.
1:50.3	This could be a counterpoint to May's Maïores, meaning elders. In keeping with this, the Scots Gaelic
1:58.7	Ochfios means young month.
2:02.3	Several of the words used around the British
2:04.7	Isles for June are based on the root
2:06.9	half, meaning summer.
2:09.7	The hevin of Welsh mehevin,
2:12.6	the heaven of Cornish methiven
2:14.7	and the heave of Irish Gaelic Mehev.
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