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S03 Episode 7: To Stand and Stare. With Andrew Timothy O'Brien

Podcast |: Gardens, weeds and words
Publisher |: Andrew O'Brien: gardener, blogger, podcaster
Media Type |: audio
Podknife tags |: Games & Hobbies,; Gardening,; Interview
Categories Via RSS |: Home & Garden,; Leisure,; Society & Culture
Publication Date |: Feb 16, 2023
Episode Duration |: 00:51:50

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.

https://geni.us/Qs2d

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.

https://amzn.to/3Stlvr9

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

***

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 fi.com/andrewtimothyOB">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. There will be a few spaces opening up in spring 2023, so do sign up to be the first to hear when you can book.

http://www.andrewtimothyobrien.com

website: gardensweedsandwords.com

email: gardensweedsandwords@gmail.com

Instagram: instagram.com/AndrewTimothyOB

Twitter: twitter.com/AndrewTimothyOB

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