March 25

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

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

March is the start of spring - to celebrate, Sam Lee sings an uplifting new arrangement of the folk anthem 'Birds in the Spring'. Our mammal of the month is the mad March hare, while in the woods we look for bear garlic and go birch tapping. Meanwhile, Lia tells the Cornish folktale of The Fairies and the Bees. 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 the Fern podcast as the season turns.
0:19.0	Released on the first of each month, the episodes follow the changing landscape of the seasons,
0:26.1	from the moon and the stars to the tides and the trees.
0:30.3	I'm Leah Lainters, author of The Almanac, a seasonal guide,
0:33.8	and this podcast is a collaboration between myself and Fern, makers of small batch
0:39.8	organic perfume. I love wearing Fern. In my quest to live in tune with the seasons, applying
0:47.1	the season's perfume is a lovely little ritual that reminds me to use all my senses.
0:53.4	We hope that this brief guide to the month ahead
0:56.6	will awaken you to the rhythms of the year
0:59.0	and help you to settle deeper into the seasons. Names for March
1:19.0	March in modern English
1:21.8	Merch in Scots and Ulster Scots
1:24.6	Marta in Irish Gaelic
1:27.3	Maint in Manx, Marth in Welsh, Mirth in
1:33.3	Cornish and Mar in Gerrier. All of these names stem from the Roman Martius, the first month
1:42.3	of the Roman calendar, which itself comes from Mars, the Roman god of war and
1:47.2	agriculture, this being his month. March's position as the first month of the year was widespread
1:53.8	until relatively recently, with the 25th of March being considered the first day of the year in
1:59.4	England until 1752.
2:02.4	In Old English, this month was Hredmona from Hreda or Rada,
2:07.8	who was a pre-Christian fertility goddess celebrated in early spring.
2:12.9	Her name later became a lead,
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