{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Eatweeds Podcast: For People Who Love Plants","title":"EP60: Connecting Children and Families to the Wild - with Chris Holland","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2968,"description":"Chris Holland has spent over three decades helping people - young and old - find their way back to the natural world. In this warmly personal conversation, Robin and Chris reflect on the threads that have woven their lives together: a shared love of plants, the legacy of plant mentor Frank Cook, and the quiet revolution taking place in nature connection education.\nChris is the author of I Love My World, widely regarded as the unofficial Forest School manual, and the founder of Natural Musicians. A practice that democratises music-making in wild places, inviting children and families to listen deeply and celebrate landscape through sound. \nHis work sits at the intersection of nature pedagogy, John Young's Eight Shields framework, and a profound belief that connection to the other-than-human world is not a luxury, it is a necessity.\nThey explore how children learn differently when handed a stick and a stone instead of a worksheet, why making music in a stone circle might change the listener more than the landscape, and what it means to truly stay — with a plant, with discomfort, with belonging.\nFor educators, parents, and anyone who has ever felt the pull of a hedgerow, this episode is a quiet reminder that the wild is always closer than we think.\n\nThis Episode Is Brought To You By\nRobin Harford\nTranscripts\nThis episode\nConnect with Chris Holland\n\nWebsite | Youtube | Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn\nBooks\nI Love My World\nPlant Of The Week\nSharing Nature With Children\nThe Heat Will Kill You First\nCourses\nNatural Musicians\nPeople, Places and Things Mentioned On The Show\nBuzzard Yurt\nKingfisher Yurt\nCity of Bath Roman Baths\nFluxus Art Movement\nFrank Cook\nNew Age Fraud\nPam Horton\nPauline Oliveros\nSandor Katz\nSchumacher College\nTrill On The Hill\nRelated Resources\n30 Days of Domei\nDomei Newsletter","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/q91i_VcMEu2XgjHhOpIbpHKFg6BUCGYGuPfjWiss9E0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI5Njg5LzE2NDkz/MzM4MzctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}