Season of Creation
Every year, we join the Lifelines project run by St Ethelburga’s Centre For Reconciliation and Peace. Started in 2022, it connects faith and community groups from all traditions with farmers, helping to plant a network of hedgerows and wildlife corridors across the country.
“Hope is impelled by putting your hands in the ground…. reclaiming the honour of reciprocity… which entails faith in our neighbours.”
These words from a talk by Robin Wall Kimmerer, botanist and Potowotami elder, feel so rich. Hope, earth, and neighbour-relationship all bound up together. And they become richer when you realize she absolutely includes the more-than-human world among our neighbours. What might a relationship of faith, honour and reciprocity with our plant neighbours look like?
We’ve been involved with the Lifelines project, run by St Ethelburga’s Centre For Reconciliation and Peace, since it began in 2022. For (at least) one weekend a year, a group from St James’s joins with another faith or community group to plant a native hedgerow and form friendships across faith traditions and backgrounds. Together, we’re making an important and lasting contribution to restore biodiversity and build up a much-needed network of hedgerows and wildlife corridors. You can see all the locations of the Lifeline hedges on St Ethelburga’s website.
We’re part of a growing network of volunteer groups across the country. Every weekend is so different, uniquely shaped by the people in the group, the earth and landscape we’re in, yet in all years, the commitment to the earth and its regeneration, the joy of being a community (if only for a weekend) and meeting new people always shines through. It’s a unique experience for many; getting close up to the earth, re-connecting with plants, soil and the weather.
Season of Creation 2026
As February 2026 rolled to a close, an eclectic group of SJP members set off from London’s busy King’s Cross into the more scenic, still Lincolnshire for a weekend of hedgerow planting at the Vedanta Centre in Lincolnshire, spent alongside a group from Bhaktivedanta Manor.
Season of Creation 2025
As February 2026 rolled to a close, an eclectic group of SJP members set off from London’s busy King’s Cross into the more scenic, still Lincolnshire for a weekend of hedgerow planting at the Vedanta Centre in Lincolnshire, spent alongside a group from Bhaktivedanta Manor.
Season of Creation 2024
As February 2026 rolled to a close, an eclectic group of SJP members set off from London’s busy King’s Cross into the more scenic, still Lincolnshire for a weekend of hedgerow planting at the Vedanta Centre in Lincolnshire, spent alongside a group from Bhaktivedanta Manor.
Season of Creation 2023
As February 2026 rolled to a close, an eclectic group of SJP members set off from London’s busy King’s Cross into the more scenic, still Lincolnshire for a weekend of hedgerow planting at the Vedanta Centre in Lincolnshire, spent alongside a group from Bhaktivedanta Manor.
Season of Creation 2022
As February 2026 rolled to a close, an eclectic group of SJP members set off from London’s busy King’s Cross into the more scenic, still Lincolnshire for a weekend of hedgerow planting at the Vedanta Centre in Lincolnshire, spent alongside a group from Bhaktivedanta Manor.