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Breaking Bread Update

Breaking Bread Update

The long awaited second oven has arrived at Breaking Bread Community Barkery, and not a moment too soon! Along with orders from EVCC and regular customers in the wider community, the joint enterprise with our partners at Common Cause has a growing list of commercial...

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Michaelmas Day by Gabrielle Werth

Michaelmas Day by Gabrielle Werth

Well we had our first part of Michaelmas doing special groups, I did the Creative Writing with Lydia, and it was a lovely sunny day, but it was slightly windy, we got a chance to go out, but first Me, Thomas Shacklady, and Jannik, we talked about the "Five Senses" and...

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EVCC celebrates conservation award

EVCC celebrates conservation award

Esk Valley Camphill Community members are celebrating winning a North Yorkshire Moors Association (NYMA) Conservation award for their habitat restoration work in Danby Dale. In collaboration with landowners Debbie and Mike, the conservation team spent two winters...

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New property appeal

New property appeal

The last three years have been a time of pioneering for our community. We wouldn’t have been able to get this far without the support of our friends. Together with our partners in Whitby, we continue to run the Breaking Bread Bakery. Thanks to our supporters, this...

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Just like that one fabled village of indomitable Gauls holding out against the Roman invaders with magic potion and the cunning and brawn of its protagonists, there is a small village in North Yorkshire that is bucking the trends of cultural belittlement by the powers...

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The Earth in Midwinter

The Earth in Midwinter

If you’ve never read the Grimm’s’ tale, ‘The Three Little Men in the Wood’, you really should. The poor girl persecuted by her stepmother is sent out into the winter snow in a paper dress to look for strawberries. She comes to a little house where live three little...

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Autumn in our community garden

Autumn in our community garden

As the rain arrives, summer departs and autumn gusts in, bearing its beautiful plumage of red, orange and gold to the world. These fantastic colours are mimicked by the vegetables, and whilst we may lose the delicate greens of summer the rich purple of the beetroot,...

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Understanding Dying

Understanding Dying  Understanding Dying Death is the end. An absolute. Or the absolute end of the person who once walked this earth. The person we loved ceases to exist in their earthly form. And, regardless of what we believe about what comes after, the...

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Herb Garden

Herb Garden  Our Herb ProjectWhat was it like, one year ago, in the old manège behind Homefield? The poly-tunnel, a lovely gift from friends was set up, and plants were raised there in spring and veg grew in it all summer. Top soil was bought in and two long...

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Ecobricks

Ecobricks

Jonathan and Michael explain how their ecobrick workshop is making use of plastic waste in High Farm kitchen.

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