EKOPIA RESOURCE EXCHANGE LTD Ekopia is a community benefit cooperative attracting capital for reinvestment in community ventures. A community benefit cooperative (or bencom for short) can offer shares to its community of interest in a
BUILDING ME WEE HOUSE In January of 1985, I visited nearby Speyside Cooperage to collect some free firewood in the form of old barrel staves. I was also shown six large ‘marrying vessels’ they had
OUR BEAUTIFUL BOUTIQUE The Boutique was started in the early 70s with the intention to support the increasing numbers of young people arriving in the community with little money, who needed clothes. Forty years on
NEWBOLD TODAY Since the early days of the Newbold community, so well described in the article by Harley Miller, nearly a third of a century has passed. The community has variously thrived and struggled,
Newbold House Newbold blessing Newbold House is a five-minute walk from Cluny Hill. It was built in 1893 for a retired army colonel-cum-tea planter and his wife. It was converted into a hotel
BUILDING PINERIDGE I came to live at Findhorn with my two children as a long-term guest during 1983-84. I had visited the community several times before and sensed that people perceived as ‘intellectuals’ were perhaps
NOTES ON STATION HOUSE Station House’s stone facade in the tiny village of Findhorn — how I loved it! — contained some wonderful old-timers in 1983-84. I was extremely fortunate to acquire a lovely large
The Eighties Building the extension of the Community Centre After the expansion during 1979-80 with the purchase of Cullerne House and Gardens, the acquisition of Drumduan House, and the caretakership of the
ASSOCIATES IN THE 1980s From 1980-85 I did not live in the community. Along with Alan Jacobsen, the Brockbanks and the Ripleys, we were pioneers and were called the Associate Members, although in 1981 I
ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP We first heard of Associate Membership of the Foundation when we were doing our Experience Week in 1980 and this rang a bell for both Diana and myself, that this was the way
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