Category: EarthAbbey

Contemplate and Celebrate the Harvest

EarthAbbey is forging some fruitful links with the Quiet Garden Movement. Below are some details of day taking place on 1st of September to both reflect upon and celebrate the wonder that is harvest time.

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EarthAbbey’s new approach to membership is now in place.

Visitors to this website will notice a new area of the site known as the Cloister. This is a members only and entirely private space, where members have the opportunity to say something about the lives they are living, the projects they are pursuing, and get in touch with others who are on a similar journey. We are hoping now to reorient our understanding of what it means to be a member of EarthAbbey so that being present in the Cloister is being a member of EarthAbbey and we invite everyone who has been associated with EarthAbbey up to now to register at the Cloister.

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EarthAbbey @ Greenbelt 2011

We are pleased to announce that EarthAbbey and some of its members have a strong presence at this year’s Greenbelt Festival.
Taking place at the Cheltenham Racecourse over the August Bank Holiday weekend, Greenbelt offers a mix of talks, music, visual and performing arts, worship, comedy, literature and film for all ages, aiming to inform, inspire and challenge those who want to ‘re-imagine the Christian narrative for the present moment.’

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Power in the Hands of the People

Is the answer to secure, sustainable, cheap power blowing in the wind or staring us in the face when we look in the bathroom mirror?

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Small is Beautiful in The Big Society

This summer marks the centenary of the birth of E.F. Schumacher, author of the influential book, Small is Beautiful. Having long been lauded by those seeking a more sustainable way of life it would seem that his ideas may well have found more mainstream acceptance.

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Per-marine-culture

With a startling report just released by the International Programme on the State of the Ocean, one wonders whether it’s time to include the world’s seas in our understanding of permaculture.

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Is Organic Over?

A really interesting discussion on BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme today, engaged with what appears to be a perennial question these days, is the organic bubble about to burst? As presenter Sheila Dillon writes on her blog, ‘On paper it doesn’t look good: sales of organic food in supermarkets down by almost 6% in 2010, the average cost of a trolley of food up 4.7 per cent from March to April and a £780 drop in disposable incomes this year and next, and so it goes on… Evidence that recent positive changes to our food habits are being reversed.’ But is that the whole story?

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Back to an Organic Future

I read a fascinating article last week by a Mumbai-based journalist, Nishika Patel, who told about India’s struggling farmers, ‘starting to profit from a budding interest in organic living.’ It was, however, made all the more stimulating when read alongside a further two articles which were flagged by the Soil Association  and published in a special supplement in the Times newspaper by Raconteur Media.

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Allotment Fuss Over Nothing?

Government plan to free local authorities from 103-year-old obligation to provide plots of public land for cultivation by gardeners, which could see cash-strapped local authorities selling off allotment land. Or at least that’s what some believe is going to happen.

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Grow Zones - now is the time

This is the moment when the sap begins to rise and when thoughts move to the garden. Grow Zones is about to be advertised nationally and our aim is to get more than fifty teams across the UK enjoying working with each other as they grow more of their own food. Would you like to form a team? Can you pass on the news about Grow Zones to your own networks?

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