{"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":"The Chair Farmer","slug":"the-chair-farmer","published_at":"2026-04-21T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-plant-stories-6074024/the-chair-farmer","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-plant-stories-6074024","url":"https://www.ourplantstories.com/episodes/the-chair-farmer","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/32297a01-5960-4f53-8208-7c9ea9be8a5c.mp3","summary":"Gavin Munro describes himself as a chair farmer. In his orchard he grows trees and meticulously shapes them into chairs. As the trees grow, their branches are carefully trained, pruned and grafted, gently guided to form a back, seat and four legs. Fullgrown is the project and passion of Gavin and his wife Alice and he takes us on a tour of the orchard and explains how not every tree wants to be a chair. One of their chairs will be part of the Plant Heritage Missing Collector garden at this year's prestigious RHS Chelsea Flower show. Who will sit on it? Do get all NEW episodes of this podcast in your inbox signup for the newsletter on the Our Plant Stories website. You can support this independent podcast through Buy Me a Coffee . Our Plant Stories is presented and produced by Sally Flatman The music is Fade to Black by Howard Levy This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy","meta_description":"Gavin Munro describes himself as a chair farmer. In his orchard he grows trees and meticulously shapes them into chairs. As the trees grow, their branches…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1467,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/our-plant-stories-6074024/episodes/the-chair-farmer/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/the-chair-farmer.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}