Category: EarthAbbey News

Starting your own Grow Zones group

What is Grow Zones?

All over the UK groups of people are discovering the delights of growing their own food. The Grow Zones project from EarthAbbey is a resource to help you get organised in your community. It aims to bring help and inspiration to your garden, wonderful food to your table, and fun and friendship to your life. A group of anything between 8 and 20 people club together to share skills and tools and help each other to transform their gardens, with the aim of growing more fruit and veg, decreasing food miles and having great fun in the process. Some groups may choose to work a community space together instead of gardens.

The view from rural Cumbria

How does it feel to be living in the heart of the countryside and trying to put EarthAbbey principles into practice. Here is an inspiring vision from Cumbria for a prayer/centred rural community working the land.

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A Review of the Year 2009

It is just over a year now since we made our first tentative forays into launching EarthAbbey. It has been a fascinating experience and it feels like time for a brief review.

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A short film about Grow Zones

There have been a few posts over the spring about Grow Zones, EarthAbbey’s local food through permaculture project. Here is a little movie that tells the story. Grow Zones will be back in the autumn and next spring.

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EarthAbbey Easter sunrise on an overgrown allotment

Last Sunday, Easter Sunday, the alarm went off at five am and I made my way to an allotment to meet up with some other brave EarthAbbey souls. After the service I spoke to two key players.

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Meals for Body and Soul

We have been wondering how to make a beginning with the formation of local groups. We asked ourselves, ‘What would people really like to do’? How can people meet one another in a way that feels authentic and not just another ‘meeting’ or ‘programme’? How can we introduce areas of interest without falling into the ‘talk’, which leaves everyone but the speaker passive? And we came up with this.

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Earth Abbey takes root in Bristol

The time for action has come. Over the next few weeks we shall be holding a series of gatherings in Bristol as a means of creating our first communities. If you would like to join us- consider yourself invited

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Enthusiastic support for Earth Abbey from John Drane

John Drane, international commentator,author, theologian and expert on spirituality says Earth Abbey has enormous potential to inspire people

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