Episode guide
Seeds: The Secret Life Underground
A seed is a packed suitcase, patient in the dark, waiting for the right knock of warmth and water. This episode listens at the soil.
The science, gently
- Seeds can wait years, some even centuries, and still wake when conditions turn right.
- A seed carries its own lunch: enough food to grow its first root and leaf.
- Roots know down and shoots know up, even in total darkness.
Wonder together
- What are you waiting patiently for?
- How do you think a seed feels the difference between winter and spring?
- If you were a seed, what would be in your suitcase?
Tonight's calm-down
Be planted: settled in the warm dark, everything you need already packed inside you. Nothing to do tonight but wait the good kind of waiting, the kind that turns into growing.