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Scotland Outdoors

Connecting Poetry, Photography and Regenerative Farming with Sophie Gerrard and Iona Lee

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Helen Needham learns about the We Feed the UK project

Transcript

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0:00.0

Did you know that you can listen to many of your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?

0:06.6

Like Desert Island Discs, where you can hear castaways like Cher, Gareth Southgate and Nick Cave,

0:12.7

and enjoy longer versions of the music they've picked. Good things come to those who don't wait.

0:18.7

Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.

0:23.2

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:33.6

The seed kissed.

0:36.9

Quite unassuming this weather-beaten box, this once discarded arc.

0:45.3

Forgotten was left collecting cobwebs in the fallow dark.

0:52.3

Poetry is really good at making sense of things.

0:56.5

It's this sort of magic spell that casts understanding and meaning.

1:01.1

But look at what's locked inside,

1:05.5

keepsakes from seasons past.

1:09.6

It's a great way of taking a big thing and making it small and relatable.

1:15.5

I think that's why poetry is really good for this kind of thing,

1:18.3

where you're trying to get people on board and trying to convey a complex message.

1:24.5

That poet Iona Lee, Iona Lee,

1:26.7

Iona's been involved in a project called We Feed the UK, run by the Gaia Foundation.

1:32.5

Her poem, The Seedkist, is one of ten poems written about regenerative farming by a group called Hot Poets.

1:40.8

Each poet was matched with a farmer and a photographer from across the UK with the aim of telling

1:47.0

positive stories around nature-friendly farming. Iona was given Lauriston Agroecology Farm near Edinburgh

1:55.2

as her focus and she was also working with photographer Sophie Gerard. You may have already heard our podcast about Lauriston Farm.

2:04.0

If not, do go to BBC Sounds and have a listen.

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