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Where men and mushrooms meet…

Some of the best ideas are cooked up around campfires… and this years Hairth O’Knokrach was no exception.

I, like many folk have become completely fascinated by mycelia and have been immersing myself in the subject of late.  A longstanding friend, Mark Williams knows a thing or two about the Fungi family, and has been offering his expertise through his company Galloway Wild Foods.

We dreamed up a perfect journey, in prime fungi season; traveling by open canoe through the spectacular Speyside valley.

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Building Bridges with YEP!

I’m happy to say that work has began this week on behalf of my neighbours at the Findhorn Foundation; as part of their ‘Building Bridges’ impulse. The Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) brings eight 16-19 year olds into the Finsdhorn community on a weekly basis for 12 weeks in a specially designed programme that brings them …

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Reasons to be Cheerful!

Sometimes we ask ourselves; whats the point? Here’s some of mine from 2012… “We are oddly constructed machines. At one moment all resolution, at the next all doubt… Today our intellect, our science, all our ‘Lieben und Treiben’ seem but a pitiful Philistinism, not worth a pipe of tobacco; tomorrow we throw ourselves heart and …

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Creating hospitality in inhospitable environments

No sooner had I written the ‘Support’ Page of this site.  I got a call from local practitioner Maeve Gavin who excitedly told me that she was co-facilitating a 10 day vision quest experience with Annie Bloom from the Animas valley institute.

‘Where?’ From a standing camp in undisclosed woodland in the upper reaches of The River Findhorn.  ‘ When?’  October.   ‘Brrrr,’ I thought; ‘maybe she could use some help…

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