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Author: Courtney Brooke

Courtney Brooke (she/her) is an ancestor who was a Social Ecologist, Regenerative Designer, and educator whose work aims to reconnect people with a sense of belonging to place. Her work in the world aims to address the root cause of today’s overwhelming ecological challenges – that humans are starved of a sense of belonging to the places they live. Courtney Brooke was raised on a small farm in North Georgia, and has been guided by a lifetime of living close to the land. Her greatest teachers have been the Appalachian Mountains, the land of Aotearoa, and Selu, the Corn Mother. She holds a degree in Ecology from the Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, and has 10 years of experience facilitating earth-based education, ecological landscape design, women’s rites of passage, and cultural healing. Courtney Brooke has taught and facilitated environmental education curriculum, Deep Ecology, Permaculture Design Courses, hands-on craft and farming workshops, and Holistic Management to a wide range of audiences in nine countries from toddlers to adults and everyone in between. Deeply committed to spreading the healing that comes from belonging to the places we live, Courtney Brooke is passionate about designing learning opportunities that celebrate life. She lives at Earthaven Ecovillage where she tends the land, raises food, participates in communal ritual agriculture, swims in wild water, enjoys the mysterious blessing of being alive, and tends her own wild Hearth. She loves cooking home-grown and wild foraged foods, playing her flute to the sunrise, running on mountain trails, making compost piles, crafting from natural materials, and bringing people together to create beauty that feeds the holy.

Roadside Agroforestry in North Georgia with Courtney Brooke

(Transcript from Video) Courtney Brooke: Well, we’re not at Earthaven, but you know I’m still on planet earth and just seeing this. I’m on the side of the highway in north Georgia. I’m like driving by and I’m like:  Wow! look at those trees blooming. Then I realized...

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Cover Crop Conditions Soil, turning clay into black soil with Leon at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcript from Video: Starting with Clay, Working with Cover Crop Courtney Brooke:  Okay Leon what’s happening? Leon: We’re gonna just show you what this is doing to the soil. What this cover crop method is…..Yeah, think of it as a massage. This is massaging the soil and all of...

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Sweet Potatoes, Turmeric, Ginger, and more in the Spring Greenhouse at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcript from Video: Courtney Brooke:  Who have we got here? Sweet potatoes. Hello different kind of sweet potatoes! Hello another kind of sweet potatoes. We must love sweet potatoes! Oh and what is this? sweet potatoes. What is this? Saawwwwheat potato, sweet potato, sweet potato, sweet potato,...

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Compassionate Communication in Community using NVC in 2021 with Steve Torma at Earthaven Ecovillage

(Transcript from video) Hi! Steve Torma again and today I want to talk to you about my upcoming class being sponsored by School of Integrated Living.  It’s going to be September 2021 and it’s called Compassionate Communication in Community. This is one of my very favorite topics. I’ve...

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Chickweed Song with Alinahh at Earthaven Ecovillage

(Transcript from video) Alinahh: Okay, well I have a few things… more than a few….. but there are a few things I’m passionate about one of them is foraging. I like to call it original earth food or original earth garden food or original garden food rather than wild because it’s what we were...

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Blood of Life Song with Kaitlin at Earthaven Ecovillage

(Transcript from video) Kaitlin: I give away my blood of life to all my relations and I open my womb with delight. I give away my blood of life to all my relations and I open my womb with delight. I give away, give away, give away, give away I open my womb with delight. I give away my blood of life...

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Tour of the Cover Crop Mix with Zev at Earthaven Ecovillage

(Transcript from video) Courtney Brooke: What are you doing, Uncle Zev? Zev: I’m admiring this cover crop that Eli put down with veggie ladies. And Daikon’s flowering with all of their, so many insects, bumblebees and honeybees and little parasitic wasps and stuff, into their flowers. Courtney...

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Eating Bamboo Shoots with Esme at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcript from video: Eme: Taking video of me peeling my bamboo shoots? Courtney Brooke: Yeah what are you doing Esme? Esme: Peeling a bamboo shoot! Courtney Brooke: What are you gonna do with that bamboo shoot? Esme: Eat it! Courtney Brooke: What? You can eat bamboo shoots? Esme: Yes! Courtney...

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Artichoke Patch in Courtney Brooke’s Garden at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcript from video: Courtney Brooke: Good morning. I wanted to show you something really exciting in my garden. This is my artichoke patch. I got several artichokes here some different kinds that I’m experimenting with. I planted them just last year so they’re about a year old. I love...

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