Back to Earth

Back to Earth

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Back to Earth episodes

  • Outstanding in my Field

    The grain has ripened! The time has come! Join me as I witness my first harvest. I’ll be inspecting the fields with mum and Nigel, learning about grain and combine harvesters and checking out Quince Honey Farm to find out more about bees. Yes, BEES, they’re the hot new thing everyone’s talking about! 


    #HASHTAGFARMLIFE is our Patreon exclusive after-show series. This week we drink wine and talk about honey. Also we read YOUR comments (if you commented)! https://www.patreon.com/definitelyhuman 


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    20 min
  • You Grow Girl

    The wheat and barley is turning a golden shade of yellow, and harvest is on the horizon. Join me as I, a professional big girl farmer, attend my first Straw Sale. I’ll be observing my fellow farmers, visiting my uncle’s vegetable patch, discovering the secrets of great composting, letting sleeping hedgehogs lie and discussing the highs and lows of growing my own tomatoes.


    #HASHTAGFARMLIFE is our Patreon exclusive after-show series. This week we drink wine and talk about North Devon farmers. Also we read YOUR comments (if you commented)! https://www.patreon.com/definitelyhuman 


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    20 min
  • The Bicycle Diaries

    We’re going on an adventure! Join me on a bicycle ride along a tiny fraction of the mighty Tarka Line. I’ll be travelling through a marshland full of ducks and swans, a UNESCO biosphere full of snakes and soldiers and a coffee place that does fancy sourdough bagels, on a grand day out to my favourite beach in Britain. 


    #HASHTAGFARMLIFE is our Patreon exclusive after-show series. This week we drink wine and talk about North Devon’s beautiful beaches. Also we read YOUR comments (if you commented)! https://www.patreon.com/definitelyhuman 


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    20 min
  • A Lot About Allotmenting

    It’s time to introduce another character in my podcast! By which I mean, a person in my life (I’ve got to stop calling my friends “characters”). Join me as I visit Kate in her allotment, and discover the joys of an affordable hobby that provides health, escapism and tasty produce. I’ll be learning about community gardens, starting an honesty box on the farm, tasting that rhubarb chutney and showing off my first garden harvest. 


    #HASHTAGFARMLIFE is our Patreon exclusive after-show series. This week we drink wine and talk about my Gingernut Rangers. Also we read YOUR comments (if you commented)! https://www.patreon.com/definitelyhuman 


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    20 min
  • Everything I Got Wrong So Far (Part 3)

    Well, well, well! Look who’s about to get schooled in the art of farming again. It’s me! Charlie! Join me for a sit down with my mum, as she listens to the last 4 episodes of the podcast and politely points out my mistakes. We’ll be taking a deeper dive into the farm’s history, talking mills, waterways, tasty potatoes and terrifying outcrops, celebrating our chickens and cursing those darned rabbits! 


    #HASHTAGFARMLIFE is our Patreon exclusive after-show series. This week we drink wine and talk about garden pests. Rabbits, pigeons, slugs AND MORE. Also we read YOUR comments (if you commented)! https://www.patreon.com/definitelyhuman 


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    20 min
  • Charlie Dreams of Wine

    It’s the Charlie May cookery show with your host... Charlie May! Join me for some “food for thought” about the positive effects of gardening on my mental health. I’ll be picking rhubarb and turning it into delicious chutney, watching the vines finally get planted and talking to my partner in wine Ben about branding and marketing, and the exciting future of our vineyard. 


    #HASHTAGFARMLIFE is our Patreon exclusive after-show series. This week we drink wine and talk about wine. Wiiine! Also we read YOUR comments (if you commented)! https://www.patreon.com/definitelyhuman 


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    19 min
  • Those Pesky Wabbits!

    They’re fluffy, they’re cuddly, they’re playful and cute, and they cause utter devastation to our flowers and veg gardens. Join me as I fend off our impending rabbit infestation! I’ll be building makeshift bunny-proof walls, planting yummy strawberries in the garden, giving the chickens their first taste of free range life with an outside coop and taking David on a romantic walk through the potato field. 


    #HASHTAGFARMLIFE is our Patreon exclusive after-show series. This week we drink wine and talk about the mighty potato. Also we read YOUR comments (if you commented)! https://www.patreon.com/definitelyhuman 


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    20 min
  • Busting Out of Hen Jail

    I’ve done it! I’ve finally done it! I’ve rescued and adopted some chickens! A huge thanks to the British Hen Welfare Trust for making my dreams come true. Join me as I take my feathered friends to their new home on the farm, to live out their retirement in comfort and safety. I’ll be checking in on the chooks, re-working the vinyard to get the soil P E R F E C T for the impending planting and taking a break from work to visit one of my favourite places in Devon.


    #HASHTAGFARMLIFE is our Patreon exclusive after-show series. This week we drink wine and talk about chickens and the British Hen Welfare Trust. Also we read YOUR comments (if you commented)! https://www.patreon.com/definitelyhuman 


    You can adopt some hens too from British Hen Welfare Trust or donate and help support their cause here: https://www.bhwt.org.uk/


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    20 min
  • The Tortoise and the Hare

    Some people know him as Haz the Dude, others call him Harry, but to me he’ll always be bro. Join me as I take a walk in the woods with my only sibling. I’ll be discussing the future of the farm and the importance of being a custodian of the land, prepping the field ready for vine planting and learning to plough like a real farmer! Caution! This episode features fuzzy little lambs being adorably cute! You’ve been warned!


    #HASHTAGFARMLIFE is our Patreon exclusive after-show series.This week we drink wine and talk to my baby bro Harry about the zaney business ideas we had for the farm as kids. Also we read YOUR comments (if you commented)! https://www.patreon.com/definitelyhuman


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    20 min
  • Everything I Got Wrong So Far (Part 2)

    It’s that time again! Join me for a fireside chat with actual farmer “my mum” who will be listening to the last four episodes of the podcast and supplying insight and intrigue far beyond my own wavering knowledge. Join me for a nice talk about things! Things that include the old veg patch, wildlife conservation, mobile phones filled with straw and, unsurprisingly, beavers. We always have time for beavers! In fact mum was actually interviewed about Britain's largest rodent on BBC Radio4’s programme ‘Costing the Earth’. Which you can listen to right here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w9v4 


    #HASHTAGFARMLIFE is our Patreon exclusive after-show series. This week we drink wine and discuss our semiaquatic friends the beavers. Also we read YOUR comments (if you commented)! https://www.patreon.com/definitelyhuman 


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    20 min

About Back to Earth

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Fashion Designer Charlie May has escaped city life and gone back to her roots as a West Country farmer. Join her each week as she learns the basics of living sustainably, grows her own fruit, veg…

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