Category: Foodlife

One of embody's Ventures is foodlife.

Your Farm for £25 – Community Supported Agriculture

This week I attended the first management meeting for a new community supported agriculture (CSA) that is setting up just south of Bristol. In a nutshell the membership own the farm as a kind of co-op. The farmer is guaranteed an income and the food is local and seasonal for the membership. More ...

Local Food Through EarthAbbey’s Grow Zones permaculture project

Grow Zones is a project that I've been running in Bristol for the last few months – growing food and friendships. It is a practical project for EarthAbbey which accounts for about a fifth of my time and here is a short movie that tells you all about it. More ...

Mike Feingold’s Permaculture Allotment

Mike Feingold, takes you round 'planet zog' his allotment. Mike is one of the tutors on the Permaculture Design Course that I've recently completed in Bristol. I'm now distressing my very own boiler suit so I can be just like Mike. More ...

Embody at Greenbelt 08

Embody is offering a couple of experiential sessions at Greenbelt this year and they're a couple not to miss. Coming first on Saturday night is Happiness and Chocolate and late on Sunday night is Neotopia. More ...

The Delight of Little Things (and patience)

Is it an age thing; succumbing to the desire to grow things? Compost and seeds + six months = food. I'm with Jamie on this; dig for victory. Anyway, it is all a good lesson in patience (I had to wait a whole week for this to show – and how happy I was). More ...

Happiness And Chocolate at Wychwood 2008

The first of this summer's festivals for Embody will be the wonderful Wychwood festival in Cheltenham. We have been a couple of times leading participatory workshops on life coaching themes to laid back festival goers. But this year we're going under the guise of FoodLife for a part culinary spectacular. More ...

Foundation Bristol: Little Service: Babettes Feast

The little service has turned a corner in creativity in the last few months. New people. New ideas. This week the service was themed around the Oscar winning Babette's Feast. There are different opinions about what this film is about but it seems to boil down to grace and kindness – and daft Christians. This post explores our preparations and rituals in photos.  More ...

Heavenly Recipes For Hope

A small team from embody are currently working on a foodlife project (combining culinary writing with life coaching), writing a booklet called Heavenly Recipes For Hope. This is one part of the content that we've created for the Hope08 project running nationally this year. The book has given us an opportunity to combine some food photography with some original concepts exploring positive psychology and soul hope. Have a look at some of the photos used. More ...

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