Although it was back breaking work, he found the experience a very spiritual one. He spent much of his time exchanging the two. When Peter Caddy began working on the washed away soil behind the caravan they lived in, he found only gravel. Talking to the spirits in the garden, whom she called Devas allowed her and others to grow one of the most prolific communities in the world. In Peter’s words, “We had learned to surrender everything, including our wills to God.” (FH Community 3)Įileen listened to an inner voice she called “the still, small voice within” and learned to speak with plants to help them grow in a dry, barren soil where almost nothing grew. With deep faith and hard work, they turned a hopeless situation into a garden eventually called the new Garden of Eden. Not exactly the ideal place to cultivate a prolific vegetable garden and speak with nature spirits and devas. After losing their jobs on a snowy November day in 1962, he moved them with his and Eileen’s three boys to a meager caravan park with depleted soil. Three unemployed hotel workers – Peter Caddy, his wife Eileen and their friend, Dorothy Maclean, originated the garden. If you haven’t heard of Findhorn, it’s a garden in northern Scotland known for its large produce – including 40 pound cabbages to be exact and unusual flora growth – roses blooming in sandy soil in the winter. Why? Because it has happened before and in inspiring ways. A garden can bring you back to a world long since forgotten a world where the ancients believed nature spirits existed.
Your garden can become a dream world, a place of magic and mystery. In the garden, you can connect with your inner self and with the world in ways that you may have never realized. Especially in the morning or after a long day at work. You can find more than solace in your garden.
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