'Soil to Slice' project
Friday, 14th April, 2023
14:15
17:00
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The Soil to Slice project is a community bread project by Scotland the Bread, a mill and social enterprise. They are very generously providing seeds – wheat and rye – know-how, and eventually processing equipment for communities growing their own local grains. Throughout the growing season the growth of the grains will be monitored and the collected data contributed to research conducted by Scotland the Bread.
In August we hope to harvest the grains and mill Chisholme's local flour and bake some bread from it. On Friday the 14th of April you are welcome to participate in the sowing of the first seeds in the Walled Garden. This event will be taking place during the volunteer Garden Week (11th - 18th April).
More information on this here>>>
We are delighted that Lyndsay Cochran, the project coordinator for Scotland the Bread, will be able to join us on Friday. She will lead us through the seed sowing, give an introduction into the project and will be happy to answer any questions. The afternoon will start at 2.15pm in the Walled Garden. At 4pm Tea will be provided at the House and we will finish with a short film afterwards, so that the day ends at around 5pm.
Please let us know as soon as possible whether you would like to join us. You are very welcome to come for the whole day for extended gardening or just for the afternoon event.
For booking and all enquiries please email secretary@chisholme.org
Free to attend, donations welcome.
Photo credit: Granton Community Gardeners
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.
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