Welcome to a new podcast from Tramping. In this first series we'll be revisiting Return to My Trees, a book written by Matthew Yeomans exploring the ways we can reconnect nature. Matthew reads sections of the book and walks parts of the 300 mile trail through the woodlands of Wales that he first mapped out in 2020.

This first episode, set in Cardiff, Wales, explains the thinking behind the book and how the project got started.

Narrator: Matthew Yeomans

Editor: Dylan Yeomans

Music courtesy of Filkins Drift

In this episode I take a walk through the ancient Celtic Rainforest of Ty Canol with Jane Davidson, former minister for environment and sustainability in the Welsh government and one of the driving forces behind the creation of the Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act.

We talk about the importance of restoring balance with nature and how walking can open our eyes to the possibilities of a better, sustainable future.

In this latest episode Liminal Forest creator Matthew Yeomans travels to Exeter to walk and talk with Daniel Raven-Ellison, the founder of Slow Ways and originator of National Park Cities. We walk a Slow Ways route up the River Exe and talk nature, walking for wellbeing, the future of cities and the importance of trees.

As part of The Liminal Forest exploration of how we restore balance with nature, creator Matthew Yeomans went walking in the Brecon Beacons with the author and co-founder of the Stump Up for Trees reforestation charity, Robert Penn.

Edited by Dylan Yeomans

Produced by Martin McCabe