Author: Earthaven Admin Team

Twenty-Twelve And All That Jazz

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on June 22, 2012. Posted in Articles, Cosmology. No Comments on Twenty-Twelve And All That Jazz

by Arjuna da Silva Here’s what’s most exciting to me in the talk about 2012: the ancient stories are in step with results of scientific research and measurement! These correlations may not be getting into the major newspapers or on the radio, but that doesn’t make them any less true. Many scientists...

Lessons in Bamboo: Love it but Don’t Leave it Alone

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 28, 2012. Posted in Articles, Bellavia Gardens, Ecological Design, Food, Permaculture. No Comments on Lessons in Bamboo: Love it but Don’t Leave it Alone

by Arjuna da Silva Previous owners gifted Earthaven’s main street with a healthy stand of bamboo that’s now prolific near the Forest Garden Learning Center. Early Earthaven members added additional stands around the community. What a beautiful and useful plant (we thought)! Bamboo IS beautiful. AND...

Thank You, Earthaven!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 26, 2012. Posted in Community Service, New Roots. No Comments on Thank You, Earthaven!

by Jenna Payne My mother recalls an incident when as a toddler I picked up my chair and threw it across the room. I was born this way—and now I live with a lot of folks I’ll bet threw their chairs around! After many adventures since leaving my suburban upbringing, I’m amazed to have landed in this...

In Praise of Inefficiency by Kimchi Rylander

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 24, 2012. Posted in Community Service, Natural Building. No Comments on In Praise of Inefficiency by Kimchi Rylander

by Kimchi Rylander Unplugging from consumer culture, living simply and building community . . . it’s not an easy path! As I review my past ten years here at Earthaven, I’ve discovered that letting go of efficiency may be a shortcut to village togetherness and happiness. I owe so much gratitude to...

Spring Lambs at Gateway Farm

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 22, 2012. Posted in Farms, Gateway. No Comments on Spring Lambs at Gateway Farm

by Caroline Williford Springtime at Gateway Farm this year means our fifth lambing season is upon us! It is that magical season when you can walk into the field at dawn and find a just-born lamb, tottering up onto its delicate legs, and with great determination, stumbling towards the teat. Our sheep...

What Klara Learned

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on February 11, 2012. Posted in Ecological Design, Natural Building. No Comments on What Klara Learned

Klara Wengman, 25-years old and an architecture student in Copenhagen, Denmark, spent her summer as an intern with the Natural Building School at Earthaven. Working directly with Paul Caron three days a week on the Village Arts Building project, she says she went through an enormous shift in her understanding...

Becoming a Father

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on February 4, 2012. Posted in Families and Children, Members. No Comments on Becoming a Father

by Andy Bosley The tasks are many, and the time is scant. The urge to fit it all in flows hard against the need to develop rhythms with the new child. The ideal vision is just over the edge, glimpsed for moments, bringing that deep sense of place, at other times seeming so distant that it causes...

Calf Adoption – A Surprising Success by Liz Diaz

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on January 19, 2012. Posted in Farms, Regenerative Agriculture, Village Terraces. No Comments on Calf Adoption – A Surprising Success by Liz Diaz

LC (Large Cow) By Liz Diaz The harsh truth about milk is that it was made by a mother for a baby. We take the baby cows away early in order to get the milk and in exchange offer care and food in other forms. L.C. (Large Cow) has been bred 4 times, four years in a row, so that we may continue to have...

Ode to Crabapples

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on January 15, 2012. Posted in Articles, Food, Hut Hamlet. No Comments on Ode to Crabapples

by Tribal Condo Clan This past fall, we harvested a beautiful collection of fruits and vegetables. As any harvester knows, Ma Nature produces bountiful amounts of food and there’s always enough to share. One morning, Suchi and I were walking in the Hut Hamlet neighborhood and came upon a Crabapple...