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After the release from fear that comes with acclimatisation; being in a new place can invoke the power of curiosity.
Roots & Shoots- 70 Years of Camas Outdoor Centre.
[Submitted for the ‘Coracle-Journal of the Iona Community’; Wild Goose Publications].
Think.
Like many others this year, i’ve been musing about what Camas reaching it’s 70th birthday means to me.
Water runs cold, water runs deep…
The way things are going, teach kids love and respect for environment and they’ll end up branded as terrorists.
I’d heard tell of what happens when two differing ontologies clash, but witnessing those boys go down for protesting fracking in Lancashire; it became clear that the experience is far from academic.
Getting Jaggy with it.
My peers and i have been generally discouraging of the stuporfood industry, peddled by death mongering corporate dinner lackeys and served to impressionable, ravenous youth at mainstream outdoor centres. Kurt Hahn would turn in his grave. Part of the pushback has been modeling forage and providing nutritious alternatives from primary ingredients. Onesuch alternative makes use of the ubiquitous stinging nettle, which forms the subject of this blog.
