Author: Earthaven Admin Team

Local Economy, Ecovillage Style

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on January 15, 2014. Posted in Businesses, Village Economics. No Comments on Local Economy, Ecovillage Style

Being out in “the boonies,” the concept of a local economy is a major focus for us. And as an independent incomes community, each of us is responsible for creating our own livelihood. In addition to over 70 Earthaven residents, about 100 neighbors are part of our local village economy. Some folks...

Really Local Economy

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on January 7, 2014. Posted in Bellavia Gardens, Community Service, Natural Building. No Comments on Really Local Economy

This past summer, long-time Earthaven member Mollie Curry and her partner, Steve Kemble, supervised the final plastering of Bellavia Gardens’ neighborhood composting toilet, known as the Ojo de Conejo (eye of the rabbit) Lounge. Folks from around the village, eager to get muddy, joined Gaspar and...

Local Economics at Work: Earthaven’s Bizarre Bazaar

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on January 5, 2014. Posted in Social Events, Village Economics, Visitors. No Comments on Local Economics at Work: Earthaven’s Bizarre Bazaar

by River Otter Earthaven’s annual holiday Bazaar is one of our community’s focal points for creating economics on the village scale. Each year in December, Earthaven members, neighbors, friends and visitors gather in the Council Hall for an afternoon of food, fun, games, and holiday vending. This...

Sheep Shearing

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on November 3, 2013. Posted in Farms, Gateway, Regenerative Agriculture, Village Economics. No Comments on Sheep Shearing

The sheep got sheared at Gateway Farm in Late October…. Shearing the Sheep Skirting the Fleeces The Fleeces The Shearers

Diana Leafe Christian Teaches at Findhorn

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on November 2, 2013. Posted in Articles, Governance and Legal, Members. No Comments on Diana Leafe Christian Teaches at Findhorn

In October Earthaven’s international community researcher and advocate Diana Leafe Christian gave workshops and consultations to several intentional communities in England, and co-led a workshop on Sociocracy at Findhorn Community in Scotland with her teacher and mentor, John Buck, the man who brought...

Garlic Plantin’ Time at VT

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 15, 2013. Posted in Food, Gardens, Village Terraces. No Comments on Garlic Plantin’ Time at VT

On a crisp fall morning last Saturday, we planted our neighborhood garlic. It’s one of our favorite garden crops because we all eat garlic, it’s easy to plant and harvest with a group, and we can watch it grow in the early spring before planting our other spring crops.

VT Gets a Solar Upgrade

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 24, 2013. Posted in Articles, Off-Grid Living, Renewable Energy, Solar Power, Village Terraces. No Comments on VT Gets a Solar Upgrade

by Bob Lienhart Village Terraces Cohousing Neighborhood just completed a multi-faceted upgrade to their power, heating, and domestic hot water (DHW) systems and the neighborhood is now enjoying the results. Domestic hot water for the main building had been provided by a wood-burning stove. The system...

Rural Academy Theater

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 22, 2013. Posted in Fun and Play, Renewable Energy, Social Events, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Rural Academy Theater

Horse-pulled Theater, Bicycle-powered Cinema, & Live Orchestra at Earthaven! In horse-pulled wagons stocked with a bicycle-powered silent cinema, an Appalachian-balkan-brass-klezmer-dixieland-string ensemble, kinetic sculpture and their signature low-tech theater appliances, the Rural Academy...

Earthaven Fire Warden Starts Fire

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 10, 2013. Posted in Bellavia Gardens, Regenerative Agriculture. No Comments on Earthaven Fire Warden Starts Fire

by Arjuna da Silva Who better to start a fire than the “fire warden” of your local safety committee? My neighbor, Marjorie, stood firewoman duty around a burn of dead and diseased tree stock and other brush that she and neighbor Gaspar recently set on an overcast day that promised to rain … sooner...

Council Hall Face-Lift

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 2, 2013. Posted in Ecological Design, Natural Building. No Comments on Council Hall Face-Lift

by Arjuna da Silva Our Council Hall was built in the late 90’s with limited experience and the unskilled labor of hundreds of volunteers. Happy with imperfect yet functional, we’ve chosen more often to develop new systems rather than improving imperfections. For example, we completed the radiant...