March

As the Season Turns

Ffern

Arts

4.9 • 846 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In March’s episode we celebrate the spring equinox with a recipe for wild garlic salt, a stroll round the ancient woodland and a seasonal fairytale. Zoe brings us folk characters from the garden pond, while the Breath play 'Land of my Other', an uplifting song for spring. '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.
0:19.0	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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