Storytelling & Growing Food with Seth Hughes and Community Roots (Bees to a Flower)

About StoryTelling:

Right now, more than ever, our ability to articulate our message is one of the greatest assets we have for inspiring change. To turn wordless, inner feelings into digestible products like words or videos so other humans can understand us, is the closest thing Seth has found to magic in his own life. Seth loves to work with people to share the skills he's learned from his time on film sets, commercials, editing, using a huge range of camera gear, and now working on social media, so you too can bring forward whatever message you feel is in your heart. 

We will begin the day by identifying your core message and playing around with ways you can use it as a means to actively support inspiring change through testing these techniques for the afternoon's practical of planting food. 

Connect to a part of yourself that is trying to communicate a message.
Most people have a message they’d love to share with the world. Sometimes that message is clear, it exists as words in the mind or maybe has even started to manifest in the physical world. But quite often that message still lives as a stuck, wordless feeling in the body. It’s unshaped, soily and, speaking from personal experience, can be quite irritating. This is creative energy, and without an outlet for expression, can live for years dormant in the body. I’ve found that reaching back to past versions of myself and learning to listen to them and give them a voice, can be a very powerful way to allow that creative energy through. 

Why Attend?
Creativity and our heart's messages are antidotes to an ever-homogenising, mechanistic culture. I’m fascinated by the links between the attention economy and our seemingly decreasing ability to think, feel, and create for ourselves. I want to see a world of people capable of moving this creativity through their bodies, so our culture becomes repopulated with diversity and beauty. 

 About Growing Your Own Food:

Community Roots has converted one acre of bare agricultural land into a productive, no-dig, market garden. There they produce low-impact, locally grown, healthy food for their community, growing without using chemicals in ways that encourage biodiversity and soil health. Together, in combination with skills learned during the morning, we'll learn the basics of soil health, how to design your garden to serve your health and growing needs, ways to align with nature's natural processes, and what absolutely not to do!

Things to Bring With You
If you'd like to  (optionally) stay on-site after the event, please book directly here 

• Comfortable shoes
• Snacks for the road
• A potluck dish of food
• A working phone for storytelling purposes
• Pen and Journal
• Sleeping gear (if you plan to camp - this is optional)
• Or making a direct eco-cabin booking here

About Seth Hughes

Seth Hughes is a filmmaker, story teller and wild food enthusiast. With his filmmaking and communication skills, he’s taken to sharing his message on social media as an attempt to bring more ancient and Earth based wisdom to these modern platforms. He wants to remind humans of their intrinsic relationship to Earth by reconnecting with timeless humans practices such as commitment to place and community, foraging, hide tanning and barefoot running. He feels that the world is really made of stories, symbols and myths. And that through helping others to connect with their hearts message, greater waves will ripple through mythological fabric of our destructive culture and with it, bring a more grounded, reciprocal relationship to earth. 


About Community Roots

Community Roots Cornwall is a community growing project with the aim of growing community and food in planet-positive ways. We have taken one acre of bare agricultural land and turned it into a thriving, productive, nature-friendly market garden. We believe everyone should have access to healthy food grown locally in ways that support our beautiful planet, and sell our veg through a weekly veg bag scheme with a sliding price scale that means people with more disposable income pay more to subsidise our veg for others who couldn't otherwise afford them. We grow our veg with the help of an amazing diverse group of volunteers who are the beating heart of our project. 


About Bees to a Flower

Bees to a Flower is a Primal Gathering initiative that encourages people, past participants, their friends, and the extended community to act as bee’s to a flower to their local community ‘flower’ projects. Actively pollinating the wider ecosystem with the support they need while learning new and empowering skills. Join our newsletter here. 

*Tickets are non-refundable, but name changes are welcome