a well known community goes back forty seven years peter and came with their friends dorothy mclean to live in a trailer near the village. when their efforts to grow vegetables succeeded others followed. campaigners for the eco friendly lifestyle began arriving at findhorn from around the world during the one nine hundred seventy s. the community grew from twenty to one hundred fifty members. as we come through this landscape here we start to move into what we call a poem a culture a garden. garden is the same thing as co-creating with nature working with nature one of the reasons why i came. because of meditation spiritual progress but also working with nature. gibson was one of the first settlers. he's lived. his house is one of the eco village is an attraction it's made from whiskey barrels we were looking for would particularly