Category: Kitchen Garden

What is so special about homemade?

The recent Homemade Festival here in Bristol had a very special feel to it. I wondered why. We had asked people to come and contribute something they had made, or grown, or cooked, or music they could sing, or a game they could lead…

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France and Fruitfulness

I sometimes feel that a garden is rather like a young child. If you are with them constantly, their growth is almost imperceptible. But if there is a hiatus in your relationship with them, then the change can seem rapid and radical.

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The Homemade festival

Celebrations of harvest have been a mainstay of community life right through human history. They are occasions for communities to gather and celebrate their life, give thanks for the abundance of creation, and imagine the future. In our own day, we have recently seen an enormous upsurge in interest in growing produce. Is this the time to re-imagine Harvest? Here are plans for a Homemade Festival that you might like to try.

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The Walled Garden begins to take shape

There seems to something special about ‘primary production’ or what Tolstoy would call ‘bread labour’. To get involved in growing food, working land, spinning thread, building shelters is somehow also to get in touch with ourselves at a deep level, and provides an opportunity to forge friendships that cross all sorts of cultural and social boundaries. A new project in Bristol has just opened, in the middle of a tower block estate, turning what was once the substantial walled garden of a vicarage into a neighbourhood growing project.

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Grow Zones Facilitators Workshop

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. You can read more about it here.

Would you be interested in starting a group in your area? You don’t need to have any gardening experience (although some within your group helps), all you need is to be good at organising and encouraging people. If you can gather a group of people together, we’ll provide the help and resources to get you growing for your first season.

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Good Enough to Eat

How to be an Urban Farmer

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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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Unexpected consequences of working land

There is something special about working land. If others see you they talk to you about it. Before you know it they are joining in, and a community is forming. David Hughes records this magical process for us as he set out to transform a patch of wasteland that is part of the former Industrial Mill complex where he lives.

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The future of land

Following DEFRA’s discussion on sustainable farming has unearthed this gem, which seems to me to summarise the issues in the UK amazingly well.

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