Author: Earthaven Admin Team

The Value of Happiness and Connection

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on June 24, 2020. Posted in Articles, Families and Children, Fun and Play, Nature. No Comments on The Value of Happiness and Connection

Add value to your and your loved ones’ lives by spending quality time in nature… observing, playing, laughing, and exploring. Below are nature adventures and activities as well as some perspective from Lia Grippo, Reaching Nature Connection Conference Instructor and our colleagues at...

Savings Loan Pool

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on June 23, 2020. Posted in Articles, Village Economics. No Comments on Savings Loan Pool

On June 11, 2020, fourteen Earthaven members and neighbors formed the Earthaven Valley Business Savings Loan Pool – the first savings loan pool at Earthaven and the first savings loan pool formed with the mentorship of Co-operate WNC. In a savings loan pool, a group of people saves money...

Black Lives Matter – Resources to Heal our Communities

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on June 10, 2020. Posted in Articles, Culture Restoration, Social Justice. No Comments on Black Lives Matter – Resources to Heal our Communities

Dear Earthaven Family, Awareness is at the core of community. Usually we write to you with inspiration to deepen connections to each other and the natural world. As a predominantly white community, we write to you today with a different awareness: Of our privilege, of the structures of institutionalized...

Converging Paths: the Carbon Harvest Program

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on February 4, 2020. Posted in Articles, Regenerative Agriculture, Village Economics. No Comments on Converging Paths: the Carbon Harvest Program

Have you ever heard of carbon trading or carbon markets? In our Converging Paths segment, we’ll learn about a fresh new take on this idea that will empower individuals, organizations, and farmers in Western North Carolina to take a different kind of environmental action. Co-operate WNC—a regional...

Behind the Scenes – the Big Day

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on February 2, 2020. Posted in Celebrations, Celebrations and Gratitudes, Chosen Family. No Comments on Behind the Scenes – the Big Day

The Big Day, as it is so often referred to, is not merely a symbol of two people sharing their devotion in the company of loved ones; all too often it also represents the internalized values of consumer culture. This means that stress, pressure, and anxiety make as much of an entrance as wedding...

Celebrating the 2nd Annual Compassion Camp at Earthaven

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 20, 2019. Posted in Conscious Relating, Fun and Play, In-Person Events. No Comments on Celebrating the 2nd Annual Compassion Camp at Earthaven

Over 100 people passionate about living and promoting compassionate consciousness gathered in August to learn, play, and celebrate together. It was a wonderful weekend full of life… smiles, tears, dancing, deep connections, new friendships, and wonderment filled the village. If you weren’t...

Legal at Last

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 11, 2019. Posted in Articles, Governance and Legal, Membership, Neighborhoods. No Comments on Legal at Last

By Diana Leafe Christian If you see us smiling broadly these days, it’s because in January 2019 we finally finished our legal restructuring process, underway since we learned the severity of our financial/legal structure issues in 2010. Now every Earthaven member and our entire 329-acre mountain...

25 Ways To Build Community In Your Neighborhood

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 2, 2019. Posted in Articles, People Care, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on 25 Ways To Build Community In Your Neighborhood

Do you long for community? Do you want to live in a place where kids play together in front yards and adults hang out on front porches? Well, you can, starting with where you live right now. You don’t have to live in an intentional community to have community. Community isn’t the sort of...

Celebrating the Third Biennial Restorative Circles Conference

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on July 5, 2019. Posted in Conscious Relating, Earthaven Education, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Celebrating the Third Biennial Restorative Circles Conference

July’s Restorative Circles (RC) Conference hosted by Culture’s Edge at Earthaven brought together about 30 Restorative Justice and Nonviolent Communication practitioners from around the world to strengthen the network of resources for deep, global societal change, starting with right...