Keeping the Long Night By Angharad Wynne Deep is the magic of fire-tending through dark hours, of giving a night’s sleep as an offering: a sacrifice for a prayer’s flight. It effects change. Things that were ordinary are no longer so, we commune with a night and its fathomless wisdom, with all its tides, hoots and howls. To vigil is …
Frog Medicine and the Death of Animal Kin
The unspoken part of the fairytale By Angharad Wynne I ended a life on Saturday night. I feel raw from it, and sometimes writing is a way of processing. I was walking a small group of brave, hardy humans along a dark lane, heading for a vigil site in a friend’s wood. It was raining and my head torch cast …
Rhubarb and Ginger Tart
With chia custard and rosemary infused cream We recently served this delicious dessert after a feast for about 40 people, offering a gluten free option too. Rhubarb and ginger are a classic combination – delicious and immune boosting too! Our menu is all plant-based so when it comes to dessert we are often experimenting with ways to make it less …
From Grief to Creativity, A Journey
By Lucy Tipper Lucy is an illustrator from Hampshire and shares her journey of grief and loss into creativity and nature when connecting with Embercombe’s land on The Journey. It was grief that brought me to the gates of Embercombe, a catalogue of tragic events that saw my life crumble around my ears. Grief had wiped my slate clean, although …
Rewilding Books
Books to inspire rewilding – of land, of body and of life. By Gabrielle O’Connell There are many rewilding books out there, and this is a beautiful thing. The movement of un-taming, un-tethering and reclaiming is taking hold. Here are just a few that speak to the wild within. Dirt to Soil – Gabe Brown This no-nonsense guide to …
Helpful Holidays – ecological restoration camps for good
This month, we are excited to announce that Embercombe is covered as an Ecosystem Restoration Camp in Hemispheres Magazine. This in-flight publication for US airlines is showcasing Helpful Holidays: getaways with a thought to the taking care of the earth. Many of our retreats are, at their heart, an exploration of rewilding the self through nature-connection and restoration. If …
The Embercombe Experience: by On-Purpose
On one of the first warm weekends in June 2018, sixteen On Purpose associates arrived at Embercombe — excited but perfectly clueless about what was to come next. Not that knowing in advance would have done any justice whatsoever to the experience we shared together that weekend. Read this story from Ayesha about her accounts on our wild land: How …