Garden Week
Tuesday, 11th April, 2023
09:00
Tuesday, 18th April, 2023
16:30
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A series of garden-focused events are proposed for this year. We hope you can come and engage wholeheartedly, experiencing and contemplating the soil we live on and live from.
This will be in the spirit of planting and sowing seeds, but also exploring the garden as a place of ecological and spiritual education. We will tend to the garden in the mornings, break to have lunch together and then continue our work in the garden. After tea (4pm) there will be the opportunity for study and conversation as well as some meditative counter-movements to the garden work, or simply time to rest.
We also invite you to take part in a new project at Chisholme called Soil to Slice. It is a pleasure to collaborate this year for the very first time with Scotland the Bread, a mill and social enterprise. In the course of this growing season, we will be sowing wheat and rye on a plot in the Walled Garden with the intention to thresh it, mill it into flour and bake with it later this year. On Friday April 14th, the day of sowing, there will be a short presentation about the project. If you would like to learn more about the Soil to Slice project at Chisholme please follow this link.
We invite Garden Week participants to donate towards the cost of food and accommodation within the realms of their budget.
Suggested rates are:
£100 per person for one week (waged)
£65 per person for one week (unwaged, students, low income)
If this fee would hinder your attendance, please let us know.
If you would like to take part in this gardening week, if you are interested in joining us on Friday April 14th or on any of the future gardening events please email secretary@chisholme.org
There will be garden events every month until September.
Please check our events calendar for future dates.
About the courses at Chisholme
All courses at Chisholme, however much their formats differ, begin with the principle of the absolute unity of existence, in view of which unity all life, in whatever sphere, is interconnected and interdependent.
If this is so, then who and what am I? Is it possible for me to come to know my reality and place within the one absolute existence? And what is the way forward, to know myself within the context of unity? That such knowledge is possible, and that there is indeed a way towards it is the reason for all courses that Chisholme offers.
There are different lengths of courses at Chisholme. From a weekend to six months, the course comprises a beginning, a middle and an end and has a continuity of participants throughout. Each participant begins at the same starting point as every other, and all complete the course together. To begin at the beginning, it is important that each participant, whatever their prior learning and experience, enters upon the course with ‘beginner’s mind’, as far as possible putting aside all previous understandings, with a freshness of intent and enquiry.
This kind of knowledge cannot be taught as such, and for this reason Chisholme has no teachers. Rather, this knowledge is within each of us already and reveals itself as and when we are ready, when the time is right. Chisholme’s courses aim to provide the best circumstances for each participant to approach this transformational moment, whether during the course or in the future.
Each person’s journey to self-knowledge will be different.
Please email secretary@chisholme.org
to register your interest in any of the courses.
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