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PLANET EARTH: OUR LOVING HOME
The Magic of Findhorn: An Eco Eden on Earth - P2/2
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Hallo,
eco-conscious viewers,
and welcome to
this week’s edition of
Planet Earth:
Our Loving Home
featuring the last
in our two-part series on
the Findhorn EcoVillage,
a global community that
grew from the concept of
environmental, social,
economic and spiritual
sustainability.
A 2007 study found that
the site has
the “lowest-ever
ecological footprint of
any community in
the industrialized world.”
The EcoVillage is part of
the Findhorn Foundation
charitable trust.
In his book,
“The Magic of Findhorn,”
author Paul Hawken
describes this Eco Eden
on Earth as follows:
“There have been stories
in the press and
other media about
a small community
in the north of Scotland
called Findhorn, where
people talk to plants
with amazing results –
stories of vegetable and
flower gardens animated
by angelic forms, stories
of plants performing
incredible feats of
growth and endurance:
40-pound cabbages,
eight-foot delphiniums
and roses blooming
in the snow –
all a short distance
from the Arctic Circle
on a cold, windblown
peninsula jutting into
the North Sea
with soil as sandy as
your local beach.”
The Findhorn Gardens
started in the 1960s
by people who weren’t
gardeners at all, didn’t
have any knowledge.
So they needed to contact
the intelligence of nature
in order to help them
to grow vegetables.
We do organic gardening
100%. We don’t use
any artificial fertilizers
or pesticides, and
our plants are looking
generally quite healthy.
So I think speaking to them
and working with love
in action is actually
very helpful.
We now join
Ms. Hansmann
as she takes us to one
of the main centers of
organic vegetable
production in
the Findhorn Ecovillage
– the Cullerne Garden,
which helps to fill much
of the community’s
temperate vegetable
requirements
as well as supply 140
individual households.
So, Cullerne Garden is
one of the three gardens
of the Findhorn
Foundation, and here
in Cullerne Garden we
grow mainly vegetables
for our community,
vegetables
inside poly-tunnels
and also in the fields.
Inside of one of
our poly-tunnels, and
this is actually the end of
the growing season, so
in these tunnels, we can
still grow vegetables
until December.
So we have here mainly
lettuces and herbs.
And also,
that rests the soil
to grow green manure,
to recover the fertility.
And the people
who work here
are mainly staff of the
Findhorn Foundation.
And then every week
we get guests coming to
help us who are getting
to know the Foundation,
so they come
and help us to work.
And the food we produce
is mainly
for our own kitchens,
for our guests and
for the people who work
for the Foundation.
And we have some
surplus, which we can
sell in our local shops
and restaurants.
What are the main crops
cultivated in the gardens?
So mainly lettuces.
We have a lot of Chinese
greens we grow here,
mainly vegetables which
grow in light, sandy soils.
In the greenhouses
we also have tomatoes
and cucumbers and beans
and some root crops
like carrots and beetroot.
We also grow chicory.
As it is the end,
almost mid-November,
so we bring our fields
to bed.
And that’s why we cover
them and put manure out
to the fields to put
nutrients back so they
stay covered and warm
until probably March.
And some of the vegetables
are still growing outside,
which can actually grow
during the winter.
So we just protect them
with straw and then we
have the first vegetables
ready in March.
The gardens uses
100% natural,
eco-friendly compost
which incorporates
kitchen waste.
This is one of the best
jobs in the garden.
It’s great fun and it’s
also one of the most
important ones because
we have very sandy soil
and we really need to
work on our soil fertility.
And so here we’re
making compost, where
we use all the food scraps
that come from
the kitchen and we
bring them over and then
we layer them up with
manure and with things
that come from the garden.
And we also use
rock dust and various
other ingredients.
And then later on
we turn the compost,
and then it goes onto
the fields.
So it’s ground-up rock
that we’re using to
re-mineralize the soil
and the worms also
love it a lot.
It’s really good to add
into our fields, and first
to add to the compost.
So we maybe mix that in
a bit, and then
we can put this one on.
Last week we learned
about the energy
conserving features of
Findhorn’s eco-houses,
and today we’ll take
a look at what’s called
an eco-mobile, an
environmentally-friendly
extension of a traditional
caravan home, which
marked the beginning of
the Findhorn EcoVillage.
Here at Findhorn
we’re developing what
we call the eco-mobile.
The front of the building,
the porch, is built of
recycled doors
and windows.
The rest of the building
is mostly new materials.
The roof has
a rubber membrane,
and my intention is
at some point to put grass,
a green roof
on the top of that.
We cross a bridge
to enter the building
underneath a pergola
that will be covered
in climbing roses.
So these are
recycled materials.
This is a polycarbonate,
which is like
a translucent material
that lets lots of natural
light into the building.
In the porch here,
we’re growing tomatoes.
Inside the dwelling,
the emphasis is on a kind
of a minimalist esthetic.
It's designed
and constructed
along minimalist lines,
high levels of natural light,
so there is a skylight in
the center of this space,
which brings in
high levels of natural light.
And then throughout
the rest of the building,
there is a similarly
high level of natural light,
which I think is one way
to bring a sense of
relaxation.
Materials;
use of bamboo flooring,
bamboo surfaces
in the kitchen,
these are sustainably
grown materials.
It’s energy efficient
in the sense that
the building is
very well insulated and
the heating is done with
a single wood stove,
and the wood stove
is sufficient to heat
not just this room,
but also the bedroom
and the hallway.
The application of the
polycarbonate material,
which lets natural light
down into this space,
so the very high level
of light we have in here
currently is due to
natural light.
There is a small bathroom
here, a lot of
wardrobes, storage space
on the right here.
The attention is to at least
bring the qualities of
a sacred space
to this bedroom, which
incorporates a hot tub
and a hammock, and
everything you need
really for a simple,
but in one sense
luxurious, lifestyle.
A green roof is partially
or completely covered
with vegetation.
It’s also known as
a “living roof,”
providing many benefits
to the residents.
This building is
our Universal Hall,
which is our much loved
cultural center.
And we decided to
install a green roof.
So what you can see
up there now is a roof
combining sedum and
mosses and lichens,
different kinds of
growing plants sitting
on top of a substrate of
about 200 millimeters of
soil, and then
underneath that is
a rubber membrane.
And the system
has been in place
for about three years.
The sedum which was
the original plant that
we put in there, which is
an alpine succulent
and supposed to be
very hardy, in fact
has not thrived
But what’s interesting
is that the roof is being
populated by mosses
and lichens which are
the kind of indigenous
plants of this area, and
grow all over
the local sand dunes, so
ultimately in time it will
end up being something
like the appearance of
the sand dunes covered
in mosses and lichens,
which will be delightful.
The Findhorn Ecovillage
is also powered by
sustainable energy
systems – its community-
owned wind turbines
supply more than 100%
of the community’s
electricity needs.
Many homes and
community buildings
have solar panels
for hot water heating.
Overall the Findhorn
Ecovillage now
receives 28% of its total
non-transportation energy
from green sources.
In addition,
the Ecovillage has
adopted an ecological
wastewater treatment
system using
a state-of-the-art
Living Machine
sewage treatment facility,
which replaces
conventional, high energy,
chemically intensive
treatment with
an environmentally
friendly approach,
that mimics the water
cleansing process
in the natural world.
What happens is we are
treating the wastewater,
so that is sewage,
but also when people
wash their dishes, when
they wash their clothes,
when they have a bath,
everything that leaves
the household,
so we treat the majority
of the park.
So this is a hill.
We've got three tanks here.
There are 8,000 gallons each.
And what happens here
is that the liquid that’s
being ground down,
it pushes through
the tanks and this is
anaerobic conditions,
that means without air.
This is where anaerobic
bacteria first start to
digest the organic matter
that is in the water.
That is the first stage of
the Living Machine.
So the Living Machine
was actually built
in 1995 and it was
the first one in Europe,
so that was very exciting
for the community
to have that here.
And then the water
travels underground
in a huge pipe and then
it splits off down
these two lines here.
So the more lines we have,
the more capacity
for water we can treat.
At the moment, we treat
about 25 cubic meters
a day of water and
we have capacity to
treat more than that.
There's about 300 people,
so it's actually
one of the smallest
Living Machines.
The treated water meets
national standards
and is pure enough to
discharge directly into
the sea or be recycled.
Findhorn EcoVillage
seeks to act as
a constructive global
model that shows how
living sustainably can
really make a difference
to our beautiful planet,
to our well-being and
to all God-created beings
that co-exist with us.
We now do a lot of work
for the local community
as in educational work.
You see a lot of
schoolchildren coming
here, and we also have
outreach programs
we send out
to around the community.
There’s a lot of talent
within this community
that now works
outside the community,
benefiting both sides.
Our hats off to you,
the wonderful staff of
the Findhorn EcoVillage
who have provided us with
such an excellent tour
of your magical place.
To all its members
and supporters of
The Findhorn Foundation,
we thank you for
your transformative work
in bettering our world,
and leading us to a future
where human beings live
in everlasting harmony
with nature
and all its inhabitants.
So, hallo, everybody
on Supreme Master TV.
Be Veg,
Go Green
2 Save the Planet.
For more information on
the Findhorn EcoVillage,
please visit
www.EcoVillageFindhorn.com
Find out about
the Findhorn Foundation
at
www.Findhorn.org
Serene viewers,
we appreciated
your company today on
Planet Earth:
Our Loving Home.
May all communities
across the globe uphold
true peace and virtue.
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