Blossom Trees and Burnt Out Cars
By BBC Sounds
Talia Randall talks to the nature-loving pioneers who are smashing down the barriers–visible and invisible–that keep so many of us locked out of green space. From a park in Glasgow, to a beach in Cornwall and a Traveller site by an A road in London.
Nature can help us work out who we are. Take Ione, a British-Mexican land worker who finally understood what it meant to have a mixed identity when she saw a Mexican plant growing in English soil. As a kid, Talia broke into the nature reserve on her council estate. Some call this trespassing, others call it playing out. Which children are allowed to play in nature freely and which kids are seen as a threat? Now that Talia isn’t that kid anymore, she reflects on her own relationship to nature, has it changed as her class has?
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6. How plants can tell us who we are
Plants as gateways to distant homelands -
5. The drowned out voices of climate change
Not everyone has an equal say -
4. How to look at the landscape
Unearthing the violent and radical history of the English countryside -
3. Who gets to be a nature writer?
Is nature writing only for old, posh guys? -
2. Traveller communities: severed from the land
The cultural cost of being wrenched away from nature -
1. Locked out of Nature
Tackling racism with mulch -
Welcome to Blossom Trees and Burnt Out Cars
The radical ramblers and activist gardeners who are opening up nature to everyone
