Volume 16, Spring 2012

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Pressing apples for juice in the garden at Cherry Orchards.

Loch Arthur wins national food award

Big cheese of foodie world

The Loch Arthur Creamery has been named best food producer by the BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards 2011.

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Mowers ride into Guinness book of records

In Spring 2011 Bill Heffernan, a farmer from the Republic of Ireland, approached Ballytobin Camphill with a novel fundraising idea and a first for a Camphill Community.

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The creamery credit Phil Rigby/DG life

 Mass lawn mower Guinness world record on behalf of Camphill in Ireland
Mass lawn mower Guinness world record on behalf of Camphill in Ireland

Welcome

The world is in turmoil and the Camphill Communities are not immune. Confidence in who we are and what we do is the key to the future of community. We must reflect on our understanding of who we are and how we work. With the changing regulatory landscape, what does governance really mean to us? Are we resilient? Do we work effectively with our ideals of individual freedom, community brotherhood and rights based equality? In the first months of 2012 the AoCC, through a series of Neighbourhood Forums, has begun this process of reflection in order that we, through the spirit of free association, may act to sustain and develop Camphill into the future.


Short cuts

Short cuts

This edition:

  • Phoenix opens doors
  • From Ireland to Austria - by bike
  • Pennine gains creative partnership funding
  • HMIE report praises Camphill School Aberdeen
  • Biomass hailed solid success
  • Opening up the Karl König archive

Editorial

Dad, you can't ride like Danny MacAskill
My littlest girl does bunny hops - on a balance bike. She knows no conventions nor norms. As she grows older she becomes institutionalised into the common culture of our family and because I love riding my bike she does too. The local nursery that she attends provides another cultural currency for her to adopt.(Read more here)

loch arthur creamery credit phil rigby/dg life

Corrections and clarifications

Photo credits: Phil Rigby/DG life

The following images appear in the paper copy of Camphill Pages Volume 16 without a full attribute. These images should all be credited to Phil Rigby/DG Life

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