Preparing a lunch and making cough syrups together

Come and connect to the abundance of the Winter season!
Craig Gibsone and Eveline Rodenburg invite you to a hands-on workshop around the theme of Winter that will renew your connection to seasonal preparations, to the land and to traditional herbal practices.

Again we will start by walking around Craig’s permaculture garden, harvesting for the lunch we will prepare and enjoy together. After that we talk about coughing and make different cough syrups. You’ll get the recipes so you can easily prepare them yourself at home!

Craig is an intuitive natural gardener and eco builder applying it in a happy intuitive way while constantly observing the interconnected nature of all things
Eveline is a naturopath and herbalist passionate about keeping the traditional knowledge of herbal medicine alive
Venue: Craig’s inspiring barrelhouse, kitchen and garden
Date and time: January 26th, 11-4pm.
Cost: £ 25 per workshop, but don’t let the money hold you back; just come and attune.
For further information and to book your place: evelinerodenburg@gmail.com, call Eveline on 07553 695 620 or drop a note in the GO. Or simply talk to us!

Treasures of Winter: four workshops at Findhorn

I'm organizing four workshops on the coming four Saturdays. Here's some information about them:

Come and connect to the abundance of the Winter season!

Craig Gibsone and Eveline Rodenburg invite you to four hands-on workshops around the theme of Winter that will renew your connection to seasonal preparations, to the land and to traditional herbal practices. We’ll be harvesting, gardening, preparing and cooking in Craig’s beautiful barrelhouse where the daily practice of permaculture is present all around.

Each workshop starts by walking around the garden looking at what can be harvested and what can be done this time of year. We might do the tiny first sowings under glass and prepare a dish with our harvest. Then - gathering around the warmth of the woodstove - we will make traditional remedies for coughs, colds, dry skin and other winter conditions.

Craig is an intuitive natural gardener and eco builder applying it in a happy chaotic way while constantly observing the interconnected nature of all things
Eveline is a naturopath and herbalist passionate about keeping the traditional knowledge of herbal medicine alive

Venue: Craig’s inspiring barrelhouse, kitchen and garden
Dates and time: January 12th, 19th and 26th, February 2nd from 11-4pm.
Cost: £ 25 per workshop, £ 90 for block of all four. You can book separate workshops.

For further information and to book your place: evelinerodenburg@gmail.com, call Eveline on 07553 695 620 or drop a note in the GO. Or simply talk to us!

Growing peas and beans in toilet rolls

Someone asked me how to sow in toilet roll tubes. Well, that's actually easy peasy :).

1: Collect enough toilet roll tubes - this may take all winter. Here in the Findhorn Community it just takes a few weeks :)

2: Find a low seeding tray

3: Fill the tubes with seeding compost in the bag or in a bucket with compost, by pressing with the fingers of both hands on either side of the tube. Make sure to give a good amount of pressure and leave 2 cm (1 inch) space at the top.

4: Put them upright and side to side in the tray and drop one pea or bean in each tube

5: Top up the tubes with compost and press again

6: Water (just moist, don't overdo it!), wish them well and wait...

7: Once the plants have grown two or three pairs of leaves and the roots are visible, plant them with the tubes. This works so well, because the roots stay undamaged and healthy. The cardboard will disintegrate and feed the worms. I use this method for bigger seeds, like peas, sweet peas, broad beans, runner beans and corn.

When the peas look like this, you can plant them. Enjoy!