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Planting a Greenhouse Bed Full of Brassicas

Written by Courtney Brooke on April 17, 2021. Posted in Farms, Gardens. No Comments on Planting a Greenhouse Bed Full of Brassicas

Part 1 (Transcript from video) Courtney Brooke: Here we are in the greenhouse at Full Circle Farm. It’s raining and it’s cold; it’s early spring and here we are planting this brassica bed. Me and Jonathan. Hey Jonathan! We’re putting in cabbages and cauliflower and...

The Hut Hamlet Neighborhood at Earthaven Ecovillage. An Origin Story.

Written by Courtney Brooke on April 16, 2021. Posted in Hut Hamlet, Natural Building. No Comments on The Hut Hamlet Neighborhood at Earthaven Ecovillage. An Origin Story.

Transcript from video Paul: I’m Paul Caron and I’m a resident of the Earthaven neighborhood which is called the Hut Hamlet The reason why it’s called the Hut Hamlet… It was originally called the neotribal village, there’s a story behind all that that I’m not gonna tell...

Living Fences & Intergenerational Pruning at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on April 15, 2021. Posted in Gardens, Permaculture, Village Life. No Comments on Living Fences & Intergenerational Pruning at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcript from video: Courtney: What are y’all doing? Zev: Stone’s giving me a sawdust snack. Pruning. Courtney: What kind of tree is that? Stone: Ash. Ah it doesn’t taste like ash though. Courtney: Ash. Zev: And we’ve been pruning black locusts and mulberries and this...

Raised Beds Anyone?

Written by NikiAnne Feinberg on April 13, 2021. Posted in Bellavia Gardens, Gardens, Permaculture. No Comments on Raised Beds Anyone?

There are many different ways to garden, from the no-work method of Ruth Stout to the double-dig method of John Jeavons. Most of us at Earthaven have our hands in the soil on some level, even if minimally. Our very own Dr. Monique Mazza seems to excel at everything she does. And gardening...

Furniture Building Advice & Mentoring at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on April 12, 2021. Posted in Businesses, Village Life. No Comments on Furniture Building Advice & Mentoring at Earthaven Ecovillage

(Transcript from video) Paul: And it comes all the way from here to here. It’s that one that that makes this be flat. And then you build from that. The pieces that are also fastened but come to where the leg is going to be. You know where… Gabriel: And those, they just they just...

Membership Committee Design Session at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on April 11, 2021. Posted in Earthaven Education, Governance and Legal, Membership. No Comments on Membership Committee Design Session at Earthaven Ecovillage

(Transcipt from video) Courtney Brooke: Here we are. The inside scoop in the membership education committee. So we’ve been in here just reflecting on the deep journey of what it is to come into relationship with Earthhaven. All the different phases and stages and life cycle of that whole...

Caring For Our People

Written by NikiAnne Feinberg on April 10, 2021. Posted in Online Events, People Care. No Comments on Caring For Our People

There are about 125 of us living at Earthaven in rural Western North Carolina carving out land-based lives in the forest. Earthaven Ecovillage started in 1994 and for over 25 years has been experimenting with physical, social, and economic systems that embody a different way of...

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...

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...

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...