Eye - 18 November 2011

From edible churchscapes to little soldiers

. . . what species survive and thrive in the quiet of Quaker ‘habitats’ around Britain? | Photo: chapmankj75 / flickr CC

Edible churchscapes

Are there moths in your Meeting house grounds?

The Churches Conservation Trust, a national charity protecting historic churches at risk, is piloting a new scheme to help manage the bio-diversity of churchyards.

It is called ‘Edible Churchscapes’. Eye, in the wake of a recent gathering to consider the imaginative use of Quaker Meeting houses in London and the prompting at Canterbury for Friends to think and act more ‘sustainably’, wonders if there is a Quaker perspective on this?

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