Faces of Findhorn

In 1962 a garden was planted in a trailer park on a sand spit jutting into the North Sea in the far north of Scotland. Within a year it was producing 40 pound cabbages, dozens of different vegetables and 27 different types of herbs. The garden attracted visitors and soil experts but confounded all rational explanation. The Caddy family, who created the garden, were secretly receiving guidance about how to make the garden flourish. The source of this guidance and its unerring accuracy were to change our understanding of the forces behind nature. Findhorn, like Glastonbury and Woodstock became an integral chapter in the mythology of the 60s. In the years that followed, the Findhorn phenomenon grew into a community of many hundreds of people and an educational center that now receives more than 3,000 visitors a year. Many books and articles were written about the inspiring story of a family down on its luck making miracles in the far north of Scotland. Now the tenuous balance of man and his environment has turned into an urgent crisis as the Findhorn community predicted and their message of cooperation with nature has become more vital today than ever before. This feature length documentary was produced for London’s Channel Four Television.