May 24

As the Season Turns

Ffern

Arts

4.9 • 846 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In May's episode we explore the folklore of this lovely month - green men, Robin Hood, the moon and maypoles. We cook from the garden and make German May wine for parties. We hunt for swan's-neck thyme-moss, stay up til dawn watching the Eta Aquarids meteor shower and hear 'Land of My Other', a song from The Breath. '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.
0:14.0	Released on the first of each month, the episodes follow the changing landscape of the seasons, from the moon and the stars
0:22.4	to the tides and the trees. I'm Leah Landers, author of The Almanac, a seasonal guide, and this
0:30.2	podcast is a collaboration between myself and Fern, makers of small batch organic perfume.
0:37.4	I love wearing fern.
0:39.3	In my quest to live in tune with the seasons,
0:41.3	applying the season's perfume is a lovely little ritual
0:45.3	that reminds me to use all my senses.
0:49.3	We hope that this brief guide to the month ahead
0:52.3	will awaken you to the rhythms of the year
0:54.3	and help you to settle deeper into the seasons.
1:14.6	The Names for May There are several distinct origins of the names used for this month around the British Isles.
1:22.4	Several, just like May in modern English,
1:25.9	May in Scots and Ulster Scots, May in Welsh, me in Cornish and Mai in Gerrier,
1:32.5	are clearly derived from the ancient Roman month name Mayas, named either after Maya, the goddess of spring
1:40.3	and fertility, or after the word for elders, Mayores, as suggested by Ovid. But Irish Gaelic
1:48.1	has Bieltena and Manx Beldin, and both are derived from Beltane, the Gaelic Mayday festival held
1:55.5	on the 1st of May, roughly halfway between the Spring Equinox and the summer solstice.
2:02.0	It is one of the four Gaelic festivals that mark out the seasons,
2:06.8	along with Imelk, Lunisa and Saoen.
2:11.4	Beltane was a fire festival,
2:13.8	and the fires lit that day were thought to have magical and protective qualities.
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