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As the Season Turns

September 24

As the Season Turns

Ffern

Arts

4.9846 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In September, the wildlife in our ancient woodland is thriving on the season's abundance, while in the orchard with Zoe we meet some interesting characters. The Breath sing Cliona's Wave, telling the tale behind it, and Lia too is in Ireland for a story from the Fenian Cycle: The Salmon of Knowledge. '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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Fern podcast as the season turns.

0:13.8

Released on the first of each month, the episodes follow the changing landscape of the seasons,

0:19.9

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

0:23.9

I'm Leah Lander's, author of The Almanac, a seasonal guide, and this podcast is a collaboration between myself and fern, makers of small batch organic perfume.

0:35.4

I love wearing fern. In my quest to live in tune with the seasons,

0:39.3

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

0:45.3

We hope that this brief guide to the month ahead will awaken you to the rhythms of the year

0:51.3

and help you to settle deeper into the seasons.

1:02.3

Names for September.

1:06.1

September was the Roman name for this month, which means seventh month, dating from the time when March was the start

1:12.8

of the year. The English names for the months follow this pattern for the rest of the year,

1:19.2

October being the eighth month, November the 9th, and December the 10th. But most of the languages

1:25.9

of the British Isles take a more agricultural approach to September.

1:31.2

Mien-Four-Ve in Irish Gaelic means mid and harvest, and is echoed in the Manx, Moin-Fuyer, while the Welsh Medi means harvest or reaping.

1:42.9

As often, the Cornish name for the month, Gwyngala, arises from

1:47.5

Breton rather than any of the languages of the British Isles. In Breton, this month is Gwen Golo,

1:54.7

which may come from Gwen, meaning white, and Kolo meaning straw, a reference to crops ripening and stems blanching in the sun.

2:04.9

The Scots Gallic saltame is from a word that means pleasant, pleasing, or fat. There are good

2:11.1

times and feasting to be had as the harvest comes in. In Old English, this is Hallaleg Monath, Holy Month, most likely another

2:20.2

harvest reference. September is such an abundant month that in the Romani language, the name

2:27.3

for the month, Ruggieri Mascaro, translates as month of the gathering or of the harvests.

2:36.7

This would have meant two things to the Romani.

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