Author: Earthaven Admin Team

Council Hall Completion Campaign – Moving Ahead to Phase Three: We Need Your Help!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on August 5, 2009. Posted in Costs, Ecological Design, Natural Building, Village Economics. No Comments on Council Hall Completion Campaign – Moving Ahead to Phase Three: We Need Your Help!

This fall we want to complete the Council Hall. We have a plan and most of the funding, but need to raise a little more money. We are all into the wisdom of ecological sustainability and intentional community, and creating a partnership culture — but it takes a lot of hard work and cash to get there....

A Visit With Useful Plants Nursery

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on July 25, 2009. Posted in Businesses, Gardens, Permaculture, Regenerative Agriculture. No Comments on A Visit With Useful Plants Nursery

Alice Henry and Matt Kolosky (Southern Connecticut State University) interviewed Useful Plants Nursery Manager Bruce Johnston. Bruce took us on a tour of the nursery, pointing out plants and answering questions as we went. We began our tour by visiting some of the medicinal and edible shrubs that...

News notes – Summer 2009

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on July 20, 2009. Posted in Conscious Relating, Village Economics, Village Life. No Comments on News notes – Summer 2009

We had a wonderful forum workshop with Achim and Ina from ZEGG community in Germany. We’ve been using the forum process for a few years and it was great to have some refresher training! Suchi, Kimchi, and Gaspar have been facilitating forum at Earthaven for the past couple years. Arjuna, Debbie,...

Sharing roses with bees

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on May 22, 2009. Posted in Farms, Nature. No Comments on Sharing roses with bees

by Arjuna da Silva I walked out to the farm at 7:30 to collect the petals, even though the instructions said to wait till the dew had evaporated. But Andy needed some ice for a few hours’ storage of the day’s harvest, and I figured it would only take another half hour for the sun to capture the dew....

New yome for the tribal condo

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on May 1, 2009. Posted in Ecological Design, Hut Hamlet. No Comments on New yome for the tribal condo

by Suchi A yome is a variation on the concept of a yurt. It has eight sides while a yurt is round. It is 18 feet across, has canvas sides and roof, and is completely insulated, with four windows and a wooden door. And… it is locally made by Peter Belt’s Red Sky Shelters. We installed the used yome...

Natural building profile: Pokeberry

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 22, 2009. Posted in Ecological Design, Natural Building, Village Terraces. No Comments on Natural building profile: Pokeberry

(Talk by Chris Farmer to a visitors’ tour, describing the upstairs of the new building at Village Terraces) Chris Farmer and Brian Love are the two main builders of Pokeberry Hill, a two story dwelling built using ecological principles. Farmer started by noting that many innovative building techniques...

Spring wild flowers

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 4, 2009. Posted in Nature. No Comments on Spring wild flowers

by Rae Jean Spring of 2009 blessed us with many rain showers and a few wet snow flurries. These rain showers have been sorely missed the past few years by numerous beings, including the plants. After a few years of below normal precipitation, the woods at Earthaven came alive with an abundance of...

Forest children seedlings

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 24, 2009. Posted in Businesses, Families and Children, Village School for Kids. No Comments on Forest children seedlings

by Tanya Carwyn The Seedlings Program is the early childhood part of the Forest Children Parents’ Cooperative. It is inspired by Waldorf education, a way of teaching and being with children devised by turn-of-the-last-century scientist and philosopher Rudolf Steiner (who is also the father of...

News notes – Spring 2009

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 22, 2009. Posted in Celebrations, Farms, Membership, Village Life. No Comments on News notes – Spring 2009

It’s been nearly a year since our last newsletter. Much has been going on at Earthaven despite our silence! Bruce, Rudy, Alice, Eva, Julie, Johnny, and Mana have become full members! Culture’s Edge hosted a wonderful Village Harvest Festival last fall and are looking forward to the second...

Earthaven Trout Pond

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on May 10, 2008. Posted in Farms, Food. No Comments on Earthaven Trout Pond

by Michaeljon Drouin In March of last year, 200 four to five-inch Rainbow Trout were stocked by me in our small pond by the hydropower plant. The month beforehand, Andy and I raised the height of the existing pond level by four inches by installing an overflow pipe that would return all of the water...