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Forest Garden Neighborhood, July 20, 2010

Written by Diana Leafe Christian on July 21, 2010. Posted in Families and Children, Persimmon Grove. No Comments on Forest Garden Neighborhood, July 20, 2010

Chioke, Amakiasu, & Ayo in Forest Garden Neighborhood On her next-to-last day at Earthaven, our Forest Children’s Collective tutor Amakiasu (center), and her kids Chioke, 17 (left) and Ayo, 13 (right), sheet-mulched the slope between Greg’s homesite and our place with cardboard and...

Business profile: Southeast Wise Women

Written by Lee Warren on July 21, 2010. Posted in Businesses, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Business profile: Southeast Wise Women

Women will gather from across the Southeast at the 6thannual Southeast Women’s Herbal Conference on October 1-3, at Lake Eden in scenic Black Mountain, NC. With over 60 classes by more than 30 teachers, the weekend focuses on herbal education, nourishing foods, wholistic sexuality, and ecology. The...

Garlic harvesting day!

Written by Debbie on July 11, 2010. Posted in Gardens, Regenerative Agriculture, Village Terraces. No Comments on Garlic harvesting day!

Debbie and Steve digging up garlic. Photo by Martha. Garlic is one of the highest value plants we grow in our Village Terraces neighborhood garden – it’s one of the few things everyone eats and is expensive to buy. I especially enjoy that we plant the bulbs in the fall when it’s...

Prevent Birds from Striking Windows

Written by Martha Harris on July 10, 2010. Posted in Natural Building, Nature. 4 Comments on Prevent Birds from Striking Windows

Our passive solar home–Photo by Caroline Williford Millions of birds are killed each year when they strike windows of homes and offices. I used to worry about cats killing birds, but window strikes are a significantly bigger problem. Here at Earthaven, our passive solar homes have large, south-facing...

Thank You, Transition Towns!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on July 8, 2010. Posted in Articles, Ecological Design, Regenerative Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Village Economics. No Comments on Thank You, Transition Towns!

By Diana Leafe Christian, Earthaven Airspinner Some of my friends in Ashland, Oregon celebrating their town’s Transition Initiative with a parade and floats! The way I see it, Transition Towns (now called Transition Initiatives) are doing exactly what Ecovillage activists...

News Notes – July 2010

Written by Debbie on July 1, 2010. Posted in Village Life. No Comments on News Notes – July 2010

Greetings from Earthaven Ecovillage! We’re enjoying the hot, hot days of summer, with tomatoes and basil from our gardens and swimming in the creek! Now you can read about Earthaven daily life in the Earthaven blog, featuring anecdotes and photos from Earthaven residents. Recent articles...

An Early Morning Tractor Tale

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 8, 2010. Posted in Nature, People Care, Village Life. No Comments on An Early Morning Tractor Tale

Written by Diana Leafe Christian The morning after the February 12 unexpected snowstorm I had a rendezvous with Mana and Johnny and the tractor at 7:30. Mana, a sailor who knows knots, lashed my 2 suitcases to the front fork. Johnny got in the seat and Mana and I perched on the bumpers on either...

The Imani Ag Coop A Food-Growing Cooperative at Earthaven

Written by Lee Warren on March 6, 2010. Posted in Farms, Village Terraces. No Comments on The Imani Ag Coop A Food-Growing Cooperative at Earthaven

When we finished the first building at Village Terraces Cohousing Neighborhood in 2004, we had $50 in our collective checking account. As one of our intentions as a group was to grow food together, we began to think of it more as a long-term goal than a current one. Aside from the fact that clearing...

Journal of an Incoming Member

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 5, 2010. Posted in Members. No Comments on Journal of an Incoming Member

Written by Jonathan Swiftcreek Entry 1: The First Steps Towards Earthaven The joint story of eli (lower case intentional) and me, our search for community, and two years later, our move to Earthaven, began in April 2007, in Asheville, NC. We had met recently, connected through community-oriented...

We Fly Through the Air with the Greatest of Ease

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 3, 2010. Posted in Community Service, Governance and Legal, Village Economics. No Comments on We Fly Through the Air with the Greatest of Ease

by: Diana Leafe Christian Earthaven founders were emphatic about naming things differently than in the world of business and bureaucracy, to take the edge off any harshness and also to bring real meaning into our administrative activities. So instead of calling our corporate officers...