Author: Lee Warren

Lee Warren is reclaiming wisdom through conscious relating with self, land, and others. She has 25 years of experience envisioning, designing, and living innovative solutions to mutually empowered relationships, land-based food systems, residential community, non-violent communication, and sustainability education. She is the principal and founder of Reclaiming Wisdom, a co-founder of SOIL, School of Integrated Living, and a proponent of regenerative systems, consent culture, and authentic living. Lee is a writer, teacher, and activist, with a passion for embodiment practices, rural wisdom, sustainable economics, conscious dying, and community of all kinds.

New Floor in Jonathan’s Addition at Village Terraces Cohousing at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Lee Warren on April 26, 2021. Posted in Families and Children, Natural Building, Village Life, Village Terraces. No Comments on New Floor in Jonathan’s Addition at Village Terraces Cohousing at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcript from Video: Lee: So this is your new floor? God it’s so beautiful! What was the process like? Johnathan: Well, there’s a long process. Originally, this room was open, it was a balcony… it was a porch balcony. Many years ago we enclosed it. Like five six years ago, we...

Robbie Wheelock reflecting on Earthaven Ecovillage Experience Week

Written by Lee Warren on April 19, 2021. Posted in Earthaven Education, In-Person Events, People Care, Permaculture. No Comments on Robbie Wheelock reflecting on Earthaven Ecovillage Experience Week

(Transcript from video) Hey there. I’m Robbie Wheelock. And I was a participant of the Earthaven Experience Week. Being from Asheville, and being from school at the time, that was something that I felt would be a good supplement to the education I was receiving. There was a lot of hard learning...

NikiAnne in the Blue Comfrey Patch at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Lee Warren on March 29, 2021. Posted in Gardens. No Comments on NikiAnne in the Blue Comfrey Patch at Earthaven Ecovillage

(Transcript) NikiAnne: I have some blue comfrey here. I got gifted this by a friend and lo and behold it likes to spread. It’s ambitious and I’ve been using it in what I call my nursery; a place that I just put plants where I don’t know where I want them. Ultimately, but eventually...

NikiAnne the Columbine Farmer at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Lee Warren on March 28, 2021. Posted in Gardens. No Comments on NikiAnne the Columbine Farmer at Earthaven Ecovillage

(Transcript) NikiAnne: So really what I want to be in life is a Columbine farmer. I don’t know if that exists. This is just the beginning of the Columbine coming back after winter. The ones in this yard- the flowers are deep, deep, purple and then there’s another one that’s like...

NikiAnne in the Sedum Patch at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Lee Warren on March 27, 2021. Posted in Gardens. No Comments on NikiAnne in the Sedum Patch at Earthaven Ecovillage

(Transcript) NikiAnne: So, I don’t know if you can see what’s here…I’ve got some strawberries and sedum. The sedum I just wanted to mention because I use it as a weed barrier. It spreads really easily it’s really hearty. I even use it as a mat. Bless its sweetness. It can...

NikiAnne in the Ox Eye Daisy Patch at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Lee Warren on March 26, 2021. Posted in Gardens, Village Life. No Comments on NikiAnne in the Ox Eye Daisy Patch at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcription: NikiAnne: So, this green friend was introduced to me by my friend, Dimitri. It is ox eye daisy. It grows so well, it reseeds itself and it’s just coming up. It’s spring and so it’s going to get a little fuller and eventually bloom into what are called ox eye daisies. These...

NikiAnne and the Firewood Stack at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Lee Warren on March 25, 2021. Posted in Heat, Village Life. No Comments on NikiAnne and the Firewood Stack at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcription from video: NikiAnne: Oh my gosh, I love my firewood. Thanks to my partner Chris Farmer who built this! This is under a plastic like greenhouse roofing corrugated that allows a lot of sun to get through. Keeps it dry and we have cut it to really short lengths so that it fits in our...

New Online Courses

Written by Lee Warren on January 27, 2021. Posted in Earthaven Education, Online Events. No Comments on New Online Courses

In December, we announced that Earthaven’s non-profit, Culture’s Edge, and the School of Integrated Living (SOIL) had merged, and announced a new program of online workshops. Interested in learning more about Earthaven? Join our series of workshops about Earthaven infrastructure with Lee Warren....

Harvest Time Photo Tour

Written by Lee Warren on August 26, 2013. Posted in Regenerative Agriculture. 3 Comments on Harvest Time Photo Tour

August is a busy harvest month at Earthaven. Abundance (and labor) abounds. Extra summer cabbage turns into lots of saurkraut. Elderberries...

Aspiring to the Working Class

Written by Lee Warren on November 1, 2012. Posted in Articles, Culture Restoration, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Aspiring to the Working Class

Excerpted from Communities Magazine (Sept. 2012) One-hundred-fifty years ago, 90 percent of people on earth were farmers. This meant that every person in every family knew how to survive. Men and women knew how to work a field, fix tools, build a house, feed themselves. They knew how to raise animals,...