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PLANT Voices

PLANT Voices

A podcast from Tayport Community Garden where we tell local stories about gardening, food, nature and climate change. For more about PLANT (People Learning About Nature in Tayport) see or fi...

Episodes

19 episodes

Dawn Chorus from Tayport Community Garden

Kaska presents a recording of Dawn Chorus from Tayport community garden. It was captured on the 3rd of May 2026 in celebration of the Garden...

00:46:28May 4, 2026

Motivated by love – COP26 climate countdown

This month brought pretty depressing climate news. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has brought out its report, reviewing all t...

00:43:38Sep 2, 2021

Tayport Community Fridge - tackling food waste one elephant at a time

Interviews, production and editing: Kaska Hempel In 2018 the UK threw away 9.5 million tonnes of food worth £13 billion. And that’s after it...

00:37:42Jul 20, 2021

Storytelling in the Garden with Owen Pilgrim

With the start of the holidays we bring you creative inspiration for the summer - full of planet friendly tales for the whole family. The ep...

00:51:04Jun 30, 2021

No Mow May - lazy gardening that’s good for the planet

Can keeping our garden lawns a bit longer really make a difference for our precious wildflowers and minibeasts which are disappearing from o...

00:57:23Jun 1, 2021

Slow art from the heart - in conversation with Pinkie Maclure

Since the 1970s, every year on the 22nd of April, people around the world have been taking part in Earth Day to demonstrate their support fo...

00:43:55Apr 27, 2021

Music for the planet - Joanna Stark talks about her Green Nevis Challenge

You must have heard by now that COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference, is coming to Glasgow in November. And decisions taken by world lead...

00:40:36Mar 26, 2021

Tales of love from Tentsmuir

As usual this February PLANT have joined the annual show the love campaign by Climate Coalition which encourages everyone to celebrate thing...

00:52:27Mar 1, 2021

What's it like to be a vegan?

In celebration of Veganuary , Kathleen interviews a couple of locals, Linda and Caley about their vegan diets and lifestyles. Here are their...

00:37:03Jan 31, 2021

Kiss the Ground movie discussion for World Soil Day

World Soil Day celebrates the importance of our soils for healthy food, flood prevention, tackling climate and biodiversity emergencies. To...

00:46:13Dec 4, 2020

Drawing a line in the sand - a conversation with a young eco-activist, Lea Weimann

Last year saw a Line in The Sand event on West Sands beach in St Andrews on the 20th of September. It was a part of a day of massive strikes...

00:26:28Nov 18, 2020

Nature under lockdown PART 2: Listening to nature

In PART 2 of our podcast exploring how we got closer to nature under lockdown, Kaska talks to Tayport’s own John Wills about his life-long f...

00:27:52Oct 27, 2020

Nature under lockdown Part 1 - Backyard Bioblitz

There’s been a lot of talk about how one of the benefits of lockdown which probably kept a lot of us sane, when we were in the depths of it...

00:17:20Sep 24, 2020

Marvellous Meadows of Tayport

Just how many pollinators can you find on one wild carrot flower? And what exactly is a pollinator? Listen to find out! In this podcast epis...

00:23:27Apr 17, 2020

Marsh Mysteries - Revealed!

In this episode, Kaska talks to Clare Maynard about the Green Shores saltmarsh regeneration project she's running in Tayport. They discuss t...

00:20:35Mar 26, 2020

The fantastic and tasty Tayport Apple Juice

In this episode Kaska talks to Will Whitfield, PLANT volunteer who coordinates our tastiest project yet - Tayport Apple Juice! You can find...

00:17:03Feb 17, 2020

Fruit Tree Walk - food for people and for nature

In this episode, Kaska interviews Janice who is a volunteer coordinating maintenance of Tayport's very own public community orchard. Fruit T...

00:11:26Feb 3, 2020

Climate and cake - a recipe for saving the planet

This story was included in a multimedia exhibition Climate Reflections: Human Stories of Hope and Fear . A five-day multi-media exhibition,...

00:09:43Nov 21, 2019

Bats are cool!

In this Halloween episode, Kaska chats with a local bat man, David Martin, about eavesdropping on bats at Tayport Community Garden. Find out...

00:10:32Oct 31, 2018