How to Grow a Forest
What happens when a country decides to plant a forest not out in the wilderness, but right where people live? Between Bristol, Bath and the Mendips, a quiet experiment is beginning: 20 million trees, ...
28 Jul 202518min
What Happens When You Plant a Prison in a Forest
This episode tells the story of Halden, a maximum-security prison in Norway often called the most humane in the world. Built among birch and pine, with no bars on the windows and no guard towers, Hald...
14 Jul 202515min
The Trees That Remember: A Memorial in Berlin
Some memorials are built in stone. Others are planted. After the Berlin Wall fell, artist Ben Wagin created a living tribute on the very ground that once divided a city – a quiet space where trees, fr...
8 Jul 202515min
Pando & The Illusion of Separateness
In this episode of Sleepy Seedlings, we journey into the heart of Pando — a vast grove of quaking aspens in Utah that appears to be a forest of thousands, but is in fact one single, ancient being. Wit...
30 Jun 202518min
The Forest That Floated Away
A rusting steamship floats quietly in the waters of Homebush Bay, just outside Sydney. Once used to carry coal and wartime supplies, the SS Ayrfield was long ago abandoned… but never dismantled. Over ...
23 Jun 202516min
The Tree That Owns Itself
In a quiet town in Georgia, a white oak tree stands at the edge of a small rise, surrounded by stone posts and legend. According to local lore, this tree legally owns itself – a gift from a man who on...
16 Jun 202516min
The Living Bridges of Meghalaya
In the misty hills of Meghalaya, some bridges are not built… they’re grown.Root by root, guided by hand and time, these living structures carry people across rivers—changing, healing, growing stronger...
9 Jun 202517min
A Gap, A Tree, A Legacy
In this special episode of Sleepy Seedlings, we travel to the windswept hills of Northumberland, where a solitary sycamore once stood in a dip along Hadrian’s Wall. Known as the Sycamore Gap Tree, it ...
2 Jun 202523min
