Author: Earthaven Admin Team

4 New Members in 1 Day

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 30, 2010. Posted in Celebrations, Members, Membership. No Comments on 4 New Members in 1 Day

October 24th’s Council Meeting broke the record for number of new Full Members joining (jumping, as we call it) at once. All had been Provisional Members for less than a year and were excited to share this special day with each other. The big surprise was their decision to jump in their birthday...

Honoring the Dark Time of Year

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 22, 2010. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Nature, Social Events, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Honoring the Dark Time of Year

by Kailtlin Hetzner The air is brisk and cool, the leaves turn the beautiful shades of autumn, the summer is gone and the season calls us inward. It is time to prepare for winter—not only physically for the cold but a slowing down in other ways too. We are approaching Halloween, All Hallows Eve, a...

Marimba!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 21, 2010. Posted in Fun and Play, Social Events. No Comments on Marimba!

On a sweet Saturday night in September, Earthaven members, residents and friends were treated to a fabulous dance party courtesy of the Chikomo Marimba Band. Earthaven Member and co-owner of Mud Straw Love natural building company, Mollie Curry, and her builder, drummer husband Steve Kemble...

Member Profile – Suchi

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 10, 2010. Posted in Chosen Family, Hut Hamlet, Members. No Comments on Member Profile – Suchi

Davene Wasser interviews Suchi Lathrop Suchi has been living at Earthaven since 2002. She began searching for community after her partner died, hoping to find social connections and a cooperative living situation. Now, eight years later, Suchi is intensely involved in community life. Suchi gives...

Abundance Abounds

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 2, 2010. Posted in Bellavia Gardens, Farms, Food, Gardens, Gateway. No Comments on Abundance Abounds

by Jonathan Swiftcreek 2010 was a year of delicious bounty. Natural factors such as the intensity of last winter along with the mildness and wetness of the following spring gave us fruit galore. In personal orchards, on farms, and in the wild, we had our pick of tasty fruits from May until even now...

Village Arts Building Takes Shape and You Can Help Too!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on July 25, 2010. Posted in Businesses, Natural Building. No Comments on Village Arts Building Takes Shape and You Can Help Too!

by Arjuna da Silva, Earthaven Founder and natural building enthusiast An exciting development on Another Way this year has been the slow but steady progress on the Village Arts Building (VAB). Located right before the entrance to Useful Plants Nursery and the Third Creek Crossing, the VAB is the...

Journal of an Incoming Member

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on July 24, 2010. Posted in Chosen Family, Members. 1 Comment on Journal of an Incoming Member

by Jonathan Swiftcreek, Earthaven provisional member Jonathan and eli Swiftcreek are on a membership track at Earthaven Ecovillage. Their search for community began in 2007 with a shared living situation in Asheville and continues on with their life at Earthaven. After living in the...

Thank You, Transition Towns!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on July 8, 2010. Posted in Articles, Ecological Design, Regenerative Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Village Economics. No Comments on Thank You, Transition Towns!

By Diana Leafe Christian, Earthaven Airspinner Some of my friends in Ashland, Oregon celebrating their town’s Transition Initiative with a parade and floats! The way I see it, Transition Towns (now called Transition Initiatives) are doing exactly what Ecovillage activists...

An Early Morning Tractor Tale

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 8, 2010. Posted in Nature, People Care, Village Life. No Comments on An Early Morning Tractor Tale

Written by Diana Leafe Christian The morning after the February 12 unexpected snowstorm I had a rendezvous with Mana and Johnny and the tractor at 7:30. Mana, a sailor who knows knots, lashed my 2 suitcases to the front fork. Johnny got in the seat and Mana and I perched on the bumpers on either...

Journal of an Incoming Member

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 5, 2010. Posted in Members. No Comments on Journal of an Incoming Member

Written by Jonathan Swiftcreek Entry 1: The First Steps Towards Earthaven The joint story of eli (lower case intentional) and me, our search for community, and two years later, our move to Earthaven, began in April 2007, in Asheville, NC. We had met recently, connected through community-oriented...