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S03 Episode 01: Home. With Jennie Spears of Lemon Tree Trust

Gardens, weeds and words

Release Date: 10/23/2020

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Gardens, weeds and words

Gardens, weeds and words podcast, S03.5 E04 show notes A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing. These notes may contain affiliate links.  Garden soundtrack 00:40 spring settling in, and it’s been a warm, dry start 02:34 what your garden wants from you, the last in my series of readings on how to find yourself in a state of harmony with your garden   reading 08:00 ‘Cow Parsley’ from Jack Wallington’s , read by   interview 10:52 Jack joins us to talk about the impact of his book five (now six!)...

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Gardens, weeds and words

Gardens, weeds and words podcast, S03.5 E03 show notes A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing. These notes may contain affiliate links.  Garden soundtrack Winter conditions in the garden. 01:17 A weed for every situation reading 02:18 from Jack Wallington’s , read by Andy Wain   04:15 When to start sowing seeds – a flurry of mild debate 05:28 What instinctively feels right for us in the garden? 06:09 How do you want your garden to look and feel? The third instalment of my series on easing into harmony with...

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Gardens, weeds and words

Gardens, weeds and words podcast, S03.5 E02 show notes A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing. These notes may contain affiliate links.  Autumn is settling in and, if we’re honest, we start to spend less time actively gardening. More time for the soil to grow what it really wants, more time for us to start dreaming next year’s garden into being. In this episode, we hear how weeds have evolved to depend upon us making room for them to exploit, with another reading form Jack Wallington’s Wild About Weeds. And I...

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Gardens, weeds and words

Gardens, weeds and words podcast, S03.5 E01 show notes A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing. These notes may contain affiliate links.  Garden soundtrack Shamelessly pinching the title from Jack Wallington’s fabulous 2019 book for this episode – which is only fair, as it’s the jumping off point for this whole mini season. We’re looking at how we can understand our gardens – even enter into a state of harmony with this space around our homes – but I don’t think we can even begin without getting to...

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Gardens, weeds and words

This is a little bit of a teaser. Series 4 of the Gardens, Weeds & Words podcast is starting to come together, but you know how long it takes for things to assemble inside my head. And, from there, to make the journey through all the twigs, and moss, and soil and stuff, into the editing software and out into the real world in a state I can share it with you. So I thought, while I’m working away on that, I’d put a little something out in the meantime. So here comes season three and a half, a short series on the subject of weeds, what they’re trying to tell us, and how they can lead us...

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Gardens for Good Causes, with Hattie Ghaui   A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.      Garden soundtrack   The glory of October   3:25 Reading from Kew Gardens, by Virginia Woolf. Written in 1919, available in hardback from Kew Publications, 2018 Read by Milli Proust   8:19 Interview with Hattie Ghaui   9:00 A summary of Project Giving Back’s work...  10:56 … and how Hattie became involved  11:25 How PGB is...

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Designing with flowers. With Hazel Gardiner   A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.      Garden soundtrack   Over the hump of the year   1:56 Vita Sackville west struggling with summer   Readings from In Your Garden, Vita Sackville West. Oxenwood Press, 1996 Read by Andrew Timothy O'Brien   5:30 Interview with Hazel Gardiner 5:55 Creating in relationship with others – elevating and encouraging. 8:25 Hazel’s career...

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A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.      Garden soundtrack   Cracking ice while walking through the fields – is it too soon to say, or is winter beginning to think about handing over to spring?   A great time for mulching.     Reading from To stand and stare 3:02 Read by Andrew Timothy O'Brien   To stand and stare: how to garden while doing next to nothing, by Andrew Timothy O'Brien. DK Life, 2023.     05:47 ...

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A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.        Garden soundtrack   Winter bringing new and rare experiences – December snow in Kent, and recording the audio version of my new book.     Reading from To stand and stare 2:10 Read by Andrew Timothy O'Brien   To stand and stare: how to garden while doing next to nothing, by Andrew Timothy O'Brien. DK Life, 2023.     04:35  An introduction to From Seed to Bloom: a year of...

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Home. With Jennie Spears of the Lemon Tree Trust
 
A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.
 
These notes may contain affiliate links. 
 
 
Garden soundtrack
 
Why do we build gardens? Looking back to the very first episode of the podcast and Tim Massey's garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show for the Lemon Tree Trust
 
 
Reading  05:21
Extract from How to grow your dinner without leaving the house by Claire Ratinon, published by Laurence King in 2020, read by the author. https://amzn.to/2QrpPtD
 
A quick catch up with Claire since the release of her book, my review of which you can find here
 
 
Interview with Jennie Spears 09:42
 
09:42 Bristol community gardens
"Gardening is the most therapeutic and defiant act you can do. Plus you get strawberries." Ron Finley https://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerrilla_gardener_in_south_central_la?language=en
 
10:24 Sara Venn and Incredible Edible Bristol
 
11:29 Jennie's background in horticulture
 
13:09 Childhood plant memories
Border Alpines, her parents' nursery
 
Black viola, Viola 'Molly Sanderson'
 
16:13 The work of the Lemon Tree Trust, and how Jennie became involved
 
19:10 Bringing plants from home to the camps
 
25:36 How gardening happens in the camps
 
30:59 What to do with plant surpluses - a working economy?
 
35:01 Food and gardening
 
37:13 Plumbing in the camps
 
38:49 "At some point, people want to LIVE". The joy of plants
 
40:27 The impact of COVID on the work of the Lemon Tree Trust in Kurdistan
 
44:08 Upcoming projects and the best way to support the Lemon Tree Trust
 
46:49 A call from Jennie to get in touch if you know of any UK based refugee or migrant based gardening projects that would benefit from seeds from the Lemon Tree Trust (see below for contact details
 
 
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Thank you to Jennie for joining me on this episode to talk about the Lemon Tree Trust. You can find the charity's website here with more details of their work, their campaigns and the gardeners in the camps in Iraq. https://lemontreetrust.org/about/
 
You can find Jennie's work for Bloom PR  here:
Bloom PR website: http://www.bloom-pr.co.uk/
 
 
Thanks also to Claire Ratinon for joining me to talk about her book, How to grow your dinner without leaving the house
 
I’m ever grateful to all my listeners for your continued support and reviews, I really do appreciate them. You can support the podcast by buying its producer a virtual cup of coffee for three quid, at https://ko-fi.com/andrewtimothyOB. Proceeds will go towards equipment, software and the monthly podcast hosting fees. 
 
A year of garden coaching
If you'd like to find out more about my my 12 month online garden coaching programme, please visit the website, where you can read more details and add your name to the waiting list to be the first to hear when enrolment opens up again.