Darkness to Light.

Winter Solstice 2018.

The road to celebrate the winter solstice at the farm was lit by the moon and the night was mild and it was raining.

When there is so much conflict in life, we struggle and become empty. Visiting the nature reserve we had to concentrate on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

Shelter, food, warmth as well as this Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper used the terms "physiological," "safety," "belonging and love," or "social needs" "esteem," and "self-actualization" to describe the pattern through which human motivations generally move.

So we practiced meditation and mindfulness to be able to cook food and warm drinks. As a group we bonded and laughed and shared Christmas carols as we waited for the sun to rise and go from darkness to light.We then observed our vow of silence to leave negative thoughts and feelings behind as we all prepared to be positive and peaceful through the festive season and into 2019.

We had a great time and hope you do also, if you choose to come to this magical place at Lime tree farm on one of our Solo days or other events.

Seasons Greetings.

Season’s greetings from all of us at ABC.

Yesterday we were at Lime tree farm,wreath making to brighten up the festive yuletide season.

The holidays are just around the corner and fast approaching.
Decorating your home to get into the festive mood can be a daunting task, and it all starts with deciding whether you prefer natural decorating elements or artificial. In fact when you decide to decorate with fresh Christmas wreaths, it was a great way to get into the holiday spirit in its entirety!

Live wreaths can be a bit more cumbersome and expensive than their artificial counterparts, but they do offer a great number of advantages. It was a great day chatting and sharing about love, life and the year gone by remembering friends old and new and also people who have passed.

What a great day.

We decorated the round house in preparation of our gathering to mark the WINTER SOLSTICE from Midnight of the 20th December through to our planned hour’s vow of silence in the stone circle.

Please contact Darrell 07851448812 to book. The evening is priced at £15.00 all monies go towards self funding our project for events to come and our vision of building a treehouse in the future.

Winter Solstice Event 2018.

ABC Invite you to share in the winter solstice and festive season on Midnight Thursday 20th December to Friday 21^st at dawn for an hours vow of silence.

The shortest day and longest night of the year inspire mystical celebrations, both old and new, in anticipation of the sun’s return.

In 2018 in the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice is Friday December 21st with our gathering at 7.23am in the stone circle with a vow of silence to watch the sunrise at 8.23am and be at peace.

Remember, the days just get longer from here!

A spiritual gathering of like minded individuals who want to mark the festive season in a more natural way with mindfulness and meditation petitions for the coming year, singing, and storytelling are also part of the festivities, so what you can bring to share will be appreciated. 

Your ABC experience will incorporate pagan winter solstice celebrations marked by a small bonfire to burn a Yule time tide log and food. After the solstice, the abundance of darkness in winter often associated with SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder, the northern hemisphere will begin to be balanced with the light of the sun and we are gathering to celebrate this.

We will be gathering again for our 3rd year to celebrate this magical evening to say goodbye to the end of shorter days and the victory of light over darkness along with others around the world with other winter celebrations.

We will meet from midnight on Thursday 20th until dawn at

 Limetree Farm Hutts lane Grewelthorpe

 Ripon HG4 3DA.

Please bring warm waterproof clothes and boots.

Priced at £15.00, all monies go to help sustain our conservation work on the nature reserve throughout the New Year 2019 and would be the perfect alternative gift / donations.

 Please call Daz 07851448812 to book.

We would especially like to thank all our volunteers some that are currently oversees for all their hard work dedication in our long term goal of fund raising and building a treehouse and of course Pete and Irene for this special place.