Welcome to the Fern podcast as the season turns.

Released on the first of the month, each episode follows the changing landscape of the seasons,

from the moon and the stars to the tides in the trees.

I'm Leah Lane Dirtz, author of The Almanac, a seasonal guide,

and this podcast is a collaboration between myself and Fern, makers of small batch organic

perfume, who blend, barrel age and bottle four fragrances a year, released at the equinoxes and

solstices.

I love wearing, Fern, in my quest to live in tune with the seasons,

applying the season's perfume as a lovely little ritual that reminds me to use all my senses.

We hope that this brief guide to the month ahead

will awaken you to the rhythms of the year

and help you to settle deeper into the seasons.

The Sunrise

On September 1st, sunrise is at 6.17 a.m. in Inveness and 6.33 a.m. in Padstow.

Mornings are drawing in. Nights are lasting longer.

September the 19th is Ganesh Chaturti, the Hindu celebration of the birth of Ganesh.

And there is a very famous story about Ganesh and the moon, which may well have occurred in the early

hours of the morning after a long night of celebrations, not long before dawn. The benevolent,

wise, elephant-headed God Ganesh had a terrible sweet tooth.

One year on his birthday, his devotees plied him with his favourite sweet, Modak, a delicious

coconut and jaggery-filled dumpling. Ganesh could not resist. He ate and ate until his belly was even fuller and rounder than it normally was, and that was going some.

Finally he waddled off slowly through the night, with more Modak gathered up in his clothes.

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