“What is your dream?” an appreciative client asked Tim ‘Mac’ Macartney, a people and organisation development consultant. “A garden to grow people” was the answer, and Mac was handed a cheque big enough to buy fifty acres of rural Devon. Ten years on, this valley overlooking Dartmoor national park is the home of Embercombe, a thriving charity and social enterprise whose mission is to “touch hearts, stimulate minds, and inspire committed action for a truly sustainable world”. Naturally beautiful and abundant in wildlife, it has mature woodland, a lake, meadows, an orchard and a large market garden, ...
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