S03 Episode 7: To Stand and Stare. With Andrew Timothy O'Brien - a podcast by Andrew OBrien: gardener, blogger, podcaster
from 2023-02-16T16:32
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A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.
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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 Interview with Andrew, by Alice Vincent
06:40 role reversal
07:35 Introducing the book – Andrew
09:14 Introducing the book – Alice
10:00 A book that grants permission
11:12 on the plus side of getting it wrong
11:46 jumping to the book's Acknowledgements
14:00 how the book came to be
17:56 Alice on 'looking'
20:48 Alice on gardening as 'a tiny altering'
21:52 being empowered to garden the way you want to, rather than the way you feel you *should*
22:33 Andrew on the pros and cons of lists
26:08 Pottering
A breath from elsewhere, by Mirabel Osler. Bloomsbury, 1997.
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28: 41 How much the soil holds – memories, stories, our selves
33:15 Bill's place in the book
38:15 The 'how to' sections
43:19 The research – the 'science stuff'
46:30 Andrew's recent standing and staring – and Andrew answer to an Alice question
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Thank you to Alice Vincent for her table-turning stint in coming to interview me on my own podcast! Keep an eye out for Alice's upcoming book, Why Women Grow: stories of soil, sisterhood and survival, published by Canongate on 2 March 2023. https://amzn.to/3k6yu75
You can find Alice on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/noughticulture/
and the Why Women Grow podcast here https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/why-women-grow/id1659885168
My own book, To Stand and Stare; how to garden by doing next to nothing, is published by DK Life, and is available here https://geni.us/Qs2d
I’m ever appreciative of 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.
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