By Joey Waterson – Founding Chief of the new Embercombe Council and Embercombe Elder. Many the oaks have been harvested, they bring a ship around through its hull, lined out to keel along with their rigged out sails, over various deck levels she sits, keel hull stroked by compass sextant on northern stars with great wheel turning both on decks …
A Path to Purpose – the Journey of Bringing Your Gifts to the World
By Laurie Walmsley Under a perfectly sunny blue sky nine springs ago, I sat on a bench in Oxford and wept. Through streaming tears I stared at the nondescript office building that had housed my first ‘proper’ graduate job. I’d been asked to resign after raising ethical objections about some of my tasks. Now I had been cast adrift, just …
Theatre for Social Justice
Catalyst alumni and graduate of our 10-day facilitation skills programme Holding Space, Making change, Justus Wachs shares his recent project in the social change arena. It’s close to impossible not to be confronted with the refugee situation today. In Berlin however, it is so omnipresent that it seems almost an injustice not to get involved. Alongside a lot of questionable …
Pat McCabe – Reunion between Men’s Nation and Women’s Nation
Human ReUnion Ceremony in the Magpie Wheel Stone Circle 2016 Woman’s story – by Joanna Watters The Men’s story – is told by Jay Jacoby On Thursday April 21st, Pat McCabe, otherwise known as Woman Stands Shining, visited Embercombe for the 3rd time – this time bringing 5 guests with her – women from other indigenous nations across the world. …
Embercombe: our week of growing up and slowing down
This August bank holiday (26-29 August), Embercombe is delighted to host (for the first time) a combined homecoming and taster weekend for families new to our popular Grow the Grown Ups programme and for families who attended this year’s programme and are eager for more before 2017! Click here for the Facebook event. This is a new opportunity: for families to share a shortened …
Embercombe Community Supports Refugee Crisis
Embercombe Kitchen Assistant, Niaomh Convery’s tells us about the work current Embercombe residents have been undertaking out in the community. Over the last few months here at Embercombe, the volunteer community have been trying to find ways to support people arriving in Devon who are fleeing their homes across the globe. This of course is no small task and it has …
From the Kitchen – Summer
Like the garden, the kitchen is in a time of change. The new kitchen team consists of Robin (Kitchen Manager) Yaara and Jack (Kitchen Apprentices) Jenny (Head of House) and all the wonderful volunteers. Summer is here!!!! This month has brought a lot of firsts for the year. The first BBQ – the first outside cooking – the first strawberries! …
Spicing up local lamb
1200g diced British lamb 200g onion, chopped 3 cloves garlic, minced 350g dried apricots, sliced 1 bunch coriander, roughly chopped 1 bunch fresh mint, chopped 1 orange, zest and juice 1 tsp cardamom pods, whole or you can grind the seeds to avoid ‘cardamom bombs’ 2 tbsp mild chilli powder 2 cinnamon sticks 3 tbsp tumeric powder 3 tbsp ground …