Nature in a virtual space. With Sara Tasker
 
A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.
 
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Garden soundtrack
 
Gardening in the rain
 
Most used garden tools
 
An argument for including a smart phone
 
Social media and gardening community
 
 
Micro book review 05:09
 
from Rootbound. Rewilding a Life by Alice Vincent
Published by Canongate Books January 2020. Preorder here https://amzn.to/2splqOU
 
Extract read by Rose White
 
 
The role of Instagram in disseminating an awareness of plants, flowers and the natural world.
 
 
Interview with Sara Tasker 09:42
 
 
10:58 Sara’s social media beginnings
 
12:46 The role of nature in Sara’s photography, and the move from Manchester to Yorkshire
 
16:58 Autumn in the city and the countryside
 
18:00 Gardens or wider landscape?
 
19:38 Nature getting her way
 
20:21 The mood of the pictures – escapism, or freedom?
 
24:07 The common theme in a multi-hyphenated career
 
25:39 Communicating  ideas with Instagram
 
26:18 Insta cliches, meaning and language
 
28:27 The effect of social media on mental health
 
31:39 A female space?
 
36:03 The algorithm. Female-male dynamic – tensions between creativity and control. 
 
39:43 Natural creativity winning out.
 
41:03 Sara’s favourite plant…
 
44:41 Online courses to help express ideas through using flowers  and natural elements in photography
 
46:45 15 Minute Magic
 
 
 
Thank you to Sara for joining me on the podcast. You can find out all about Sara’s work and her courses on her website here www.meandorla.co.uk, dive into her Instagram grid here https://www.instagram.com/me_and_orla/, or chat to her on Twitter at www.twitter.com/meandorla. Her podcast Hashtag Authentic is here https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/hashtag-authentic-for-small-businesses-bloggers-online/id1200930280, and of her book of the same name, subtitled Finding creativity and building a community on Instagram and beyondhttps://amzn.to/34yy0K1, is definitely worth reading. 
 
 
 
49:20 A mutually beneficial relationship between nature and technology? 
 
 
Thanks too to Rose White for her wonderful reading from Rootbound. Rewinding a Life by Alice Vincent
https://amzn.to/2splqOU. You can find Rose on Instagram at www.instagram.com/liveawelllife, and with her professional nutritionist hat on here. www.liveawelllife.co.uk
 
With thanks to 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. 
 
 
One-to-one online garden coaching
I’m very excited about my new venture – it’s a way for me to work with more people than I can physically get around to, helping them to make the very best of their gardens in a way that suits the life they lead. If you’d like to find out more, please leave me your email address on the following link. I’ll be sure to let you know as soon as soon as this launches!
 
 
 
 
 
 

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