There are places where the location is more than either built environment or nature – such as Erraid and Iona. Here are stories that have a strong sense of place – even if they take place in a building such as Cluny or Newbold House.
From a small caravan park SPAR in the 1970s to the vibrant Phoenix Shop and Café today.
I am Hinterland Trust, a land spirit rooted in community. Not built, but grown through care, through many hands working together with purpose.
A stone that vanished from behind the Universal Hall and where in went on Good Friday 2026.
Altogether I worked in Cullerne Gardens for 13 years, pretty much 5 days a week, 6 hours a day, 11 of those years with Fred.
The first time I remember Cullerne was during my Experience Week in 1979. A tour of Cullerne was included in that week, and I was deeply impressed. I joined the Cullerne Garden School and later co-focalised the garden.
This report written by Maureen Smith was found in the Cullerne Gardners Library.
Easter Sunday 2025 - four years after the fire that destroyed the sanctuary at the heart of the Ecovillage Findhorn, community members gather to celebrate the opening of the beautiful new purpose-built sanctuary.
In 1988 the personnel department asked me to take over as focaliser. It was a bit absurd, I was a teacher by trade and a novice in gardening, but as a dutiful student of the Foundation, I said "yes" to service.
From 1978, around the nucleus of Fred and Dick Barton, the idea of a 'school within a garden' has grown and taken shape at Cullerne, a ten-acre property adjacent to the caravan park overlooking Findhorn Bay.
As I look out the window at the Park garden, the trees are bending with the gale-force gusts of wind, and rain is pelting down. How often we view our environment as though framed by the weather, and how often people have viewed Findhorn as though framed by the garden.
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