March 21

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

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🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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For March, we explore the traditional names for the month, the moons and the tides, the changing hedgerows, the hedgehogs coming out of hibernation, the migration of Bewick’s swans and the history and folklore surrounding the humble daffodil. 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

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0:00.0	Welcome to as the season turns, the podcast following each month of the year, as the
0:17.7	hedgerows change, the full moons come and go, and nature takes its course in the
0:22.1	garden. I'm Leila Lander, as a nature writer and author of the Almanac, a seasonal guide. This
0:28.6	podcast is brought to you by Fern, makers of small batch organic natural perfume, who blend,
0:34.7	barrel age and bottle four fragrances a year, released at the equinoxes and solstices.
0:40.3	We hope that this brief guide to what to look for in the month ahead will awaken you to the rhythms of the year and help you, in the words of the poet Ray Carver, settle deeper into the seasons. Well, March is pretty exciting. I think somewhere in my heart I
0:59.8	resign myself to winter going on forever. And every year, March manages to take me by surprise.
1:07.0	It's the pace of it that's shocking. It can start off pretty wintry. Well, let's not fool
1:12.2	ourselves. It can end pretty wintry too. But during the course of it, we will have passed
1:16.6	several massive milestones. The first is on the first, the start of meteorological spring,
1:23.0	which feels good. The most important milestone, there was the vernal or spring equinox on the 20th.
1:29.3	We will then be into the light half of the year, with more light than dark right through till September.
1:35.3	We also have the clocks going forward on the 28th, which feels like a great turbo boost to springtime.
1:41.3	Suddenly that creeping sense of ever-increasing light is thrown a full hour.
1:47.1	I won't get too carried away yet.
1:49.6	The weather in early spring is notoriously fickle and changeable,
1:53.5	but in a way it doesn't matter.
1:55.9	The birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees
1:58.0	are led far more by light levels than they are by temperature,
2:01.4	and those will continue to increase no matter what else happens. Whether it feels like spring or
2:07.1	not, no longer matters. It just is. The naming of March. Mart and Scots Gallic. Merch in Scots and Ulster Scots, Marta in Irish Gaelic,
2:23.3	Mert in Manx, Marrth in Welsh, Mirth in Cornish and Mar in Geriarier. This month there is almost universal agreement
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