Jan 3, 2020
Healing nature. With
Alys Fowler
A blend of slow radio,
gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best
garden and wildlife writing.
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Garden
soundtrack
January, getting back out into
the garden.
Rains and
flooding.
A sign that not all’s ok with
our relationship with nature
Micro book review
03:30
from The Garden Jungle
or Gardening to Save the Planet by Dave
Goulson.
Extract read by Rachel
Coldbreath
Interview with Alys
Fowler 06:04
07:05 Urban vs. country –
where were Alys’s skills for observing the natural world
honed?
09:03 Nature under your
feet. Being detail orientated.
09:55 Plant
blind
Plant
blindness
Wandersee, J. H.,
& Schussler, E. E. (1999). Preventing plant
blindness. The American Biology
Teacher, 61, 82–86.
12:20 The way we garden and
how it interacts with the wider landscape
14:43 How well is
the rewilding message being communicated?
15:20 A generational shift
to a more sympathetic relationship with nature
16:35 Countering late stage
capitalism
17:25 How long change
takes
18:36 Caring in spite of it
all
19:43 Mindfulness vs.
paying attention
22:42 Vested interests and
inertia
24:52 How our gardens help
us to make sense of it all
26:29 Finding meaning and
hope in a relationship with plants
27:25 What’s the definition
of a gardner?
28:32 Thrifty gardening
– recycling
31:37 Style vs. meaning in
the garden
34:20 A multi-faceted job
description
36:55 The relationship
of the garden to the house – pushing the
boundaries
39:10 Approaches to
making gardens
42:20 Japanese gardens –
listening to nature
44:45 Control, dominion –
human relationships to nature and the garden. Patriarchy, religion,
feminism.
48:46 A Modern Herbal –
Alys’s take on herbs and herbals.
52:49 Gender roles in the
transmission of herb lore
55:29 Herbal medicine and
conventional medicine.
Gayla
Trail
56:40 Can we garden our way
out of this, Alys?!
***
New Year, New
You.
A new relationship with
nature.
Paying it back.
Of course, as she says in the
interview, the best way to get hold of her is by
phone!
Thanks too to Rachel
Coldbreath for a cracking reading from Dave Goulson’s
book .
With thanks 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
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