By Gill Coombs Here at Embercombe, we talk a lot about rewilding our beautiful valley: the abundance we’re encouraging, the disruption that leads to greater diversity, tricky decisions, dynamic tensions between competing species, the changes we’re already seeing in the richness of the land. Meanwhile, the team here at Embercombe has been undergoing its own parallel rewilding experiment. During 2021 ...

By Sophia Young At Embercombe we have a long standing practice of holding blessings for the collective meals we share. During my time as kitchen manager over the last two years, it’s always been a meaningful way to come together and offer gratitude for that which we are about to eat and fundamentally, to honour the many layers of journey ...

We're delighted to announce a new project: Prescribing Nature with Men in Sheds. From Spring 2022, our workshops and wild land will be busy with the sounds of sawing, hammering, lively conversation and laughter as we welcome the very first group of Men In Sheds in Devon's Teign Valley. Kick-started by local GP Jim Hayter, this is a pioneering mental health project ...

By Sophia Young - Kitchen Manager at Embercombe Feasting a la Embercombe ~ Cauliflower Cheese for Christmas It’s fair to say at Embercombe, we make a rather delicious, rich and creamy, vegan Cauliflower Cheese and for, this time of year, it’s perfect for cosy feasting with beloved family and friends. It was the main dish of choice for our coming ...

Words by Efua  Uiterwijk and video by Justin Pettifar New magic has been taking place on our land and we are honoured to have a new addition in our Stone Circle ahead of us formally opening our to programmes and venue hires this month. Justin and Efua, participants from The Journey, completed this sacred work of laying some wild beautiful yorkstones ...

By Sophia Young - Kitchen Manager at Embercombe With this glorious, budding shift into Spring, there is an abundance to be found, shooting forth from the ground, most especially in the unkempt places. Here you can find nettles that are calling to be plucked and often by a water’s edge, wild garlic. And this broth is a wonderful tonic for ...

By Sophia Young - Kitchen Manager at Embercombe Embercombe is blessed to house a small parade of Sea Buckthorn trees that each year, over the late summer and autumnal months, we joyfully watch come bursting to life as they fruit; their glorious display of tiny bright yellow and orange berries emblazoning the pathway that sits west of our Stone Circle, ...

By Sophia Young - Kitchen Manager at Embercombe My kids and I have a penchant for moussaka. Maybe we might say, a fixation. Most especially myself and my son. It’s as if cosmic medicine for our tummies, souls and quite possibly, our cellular DNA. I would like to proffer the passion began in the heat of sweet Mediterranean kitchens. But ...

By Sophia Young - Kitchen Manager at Embercombe Within all movement there is a secret ingredient. In the busy-ness of life and the active active-ness, it’s one that is easily overlooked. Stability is a fundamental dynamic to everything that moves. One foot can’t step forward, without the other balanced on the ground. A child can’t discover its wings, if it’s ...

By Sophia Young - Kitchen Manager at Embercombe Celeriac, Shallot & Nigella Seed Soup  As Winter urges us to rest, as the cold asks us to come inward, as night brings us homeward, this is a time, as deep we know, to pause, lean into stillness, digest the fruits of the last year and stoke beloved fires. The advent of ...