{"podcast":{"title":"Our Plant Stories","slug":"our-plant-stories-6074024","podcast_index_feed_id":6074024,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/ourplantstories/","website_url":"https://ourplantstories.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/bf3fc14c-8df1-4dfb-a87c-93bc7cbf9a73/zNWYke224QJFHHBPFVX7edSZ.jpg","author":"Sally Flatman","episode_count":77,"summary":"The Times Newspaper described this podcast as: ‘Innovative and fascinating… a deep dive into the stories about all things plant-related.’ A finalist in both the Independent Podcast Awards and the Garden Media Guild Awards, 'Our Plant Stories' explores how plants often root us to a place or a person, or perhaps a time when we needed the healing power of plants in our lives. Hearing another's passion for a plant, can leave us wanting to grow it and so we always learn how to do this. So whether your passion is for flowers, trees, shrubs, vegetables or houseplants - you will find a story in this podcast. Our Plant Stories is produced and presented by a former BBC Radio Producer: Sally Flatman. If you have a plant story you would like to share, then do contact: sally@ourplantstories.com and take a look at the website www.ourplantstories.com This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T16:19:21.948532+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-plant-stories-6074024"},"episode":{"title":"Richard Hayden: story of the New York High Line","slug":"richard-hayden-story-of-the-new-york-high-line","published_at":"2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-plant-stories-6074024/richard-hayden-story-of-the-new-york-high-line","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-plant-stories-6074024","url":"https://www.ourplantstories.com/episodes/richard-hayden-with-the-story-of-the-new-york-high-line","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/30ba589f-c939-402e-a669-f77160e539c9.mp3","summary":"\"If you grow plants you are inherently an optimist\". I love this thought from Richard Hayden, shared as we wandered along the New York High Line, this summer. Richard is the Senior Director of Horticulture on the High Line. We talk about the magic of this garden in the sky, it's history - the trains that were once delivering the ingredients for oreo cookies to Nabisco and the plants - of course the plants. Richard explains Pete Oudolf's vision for the High Line and his regular visits to edit and add new plants. Don't tell anyone but Richard reveals a few weeding secrets too! If you like the idea of green spaces in urban places then this is for you. And next month we'll catch up on the Castlefield Viaduct in Manchester and plans for a High Line in London, which we first visited last year. And if you want to some photographs then do take a look on the Our Plant Stories website. Every month I will make a plant story but stories often lead to more stories and I end up publishing Offshoot episodes. So if you 'Follow' the podcast on your podcast app you will never miss an episode. It also makes a real difference if you can spare the time to rate and/or review an episode after you have listened. Spotify and Apple look at these ratings and it helps to get the podcast promoted to other plant lovers. Independent podcasts like Our Plant Stories depend on their listeners for help with the costs of making the podcast such as the hosting platform and the editing programme. Using the Buy Me A Coffee platform you can make a one off online donation of £5 and that money will go towards making more episodes. Everyone who buys a 'virtual coffee' will get a shout out on the podcast. The support of listeners means a lot to me. Buy Me A Coffee Our Plant Stories is presented and produced by S…","meta_description":"\"If you grow plants you are inherently an optimist\". I love this thought from Richard Hayden, shared as we wandered along the New York High Line, this sum…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2207,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/our-plant-stories-6074024/episodes/richard-hayden-story-of-the-new-york-high-line/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-plant-stories-6074024/richard-hayden-story-of-the-new-york-high-line.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}