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Earthaveners love Starhawk

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 1, 2006. Posted in Businesses, Nature, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Earthaveners love Starhawk

by Ivy Lynn Many of the women of Earthaven attended the Second Annual Southeast Women’s Herbal Conference held during the Fall Equinox, sponsored by Red Moon Herbs. Starhawk’s presence as this year’s keynote speaker was particularly significant for Earthaveners. Starhawk is well...

What The Children Did During the Summer

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 25, 2006. Posted in Families and Children, Village Life. No Comments on What The Children Did During the Summer

by Arjuna da Silva During the school year, kids who attend the Forest Children’s Program can be seen scampering across the Village Green at least three days a week, while several, mostly older kids commute to schools in Black Mountain or to their other parent’s locale in Asheville....

Vedanta

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 11, 2006. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Conscious Dying. No Comments on Vedanta

by Arjuna da Silva We’ll remember you. Remember us. We love you, Vedanta. Phrases painted into the collective painting that began the night after Vedanta died, March 22, and was completed on his birthday, April 14 (now officially Ananda Vedanta Music & Art Day) at a “hippie”...

The time has finally come for Sweat Equity at Earthaven

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on May 22, 2006. Posted in Membership, Village Economics. No Comments on The time has finally come for Sweat Equity at Earthaven

By Ivy Lynn Over the years Earthaven has tried to prioritize agriculture, and to provide ways for skilled folks to be able to be at Earthaven even if they hadn’t amassed savings. First site option 3 was created. It allowed a few people to be here, but it just delayed their inevitable need...

Shoes Off!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on May 15, 2006. Posted in Conscious Relating, Social Events, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Shoes Off!

Being Healed by the Earth “American feet are atrophied; they don’t develop, they are inarticulate,” says Warren Grossman, energy healer and author of the book, To Be Healed By The Earth, pointing out that in cultures where people don’t wear shoes, the toes spread and the...

Practicing Gender Appropriate Languaging (GAL)

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on May 3, 2006. Posted in Conscious Relating, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Practicing Gender Appropriate Languaging (GAL)

by Arjuna da Silva It’s not unusual for new folks at Earthaven to feel overwhelmed by many of our members’ insistence on the use of gender appropriate language; that is, when gender specific pronouns and nouns are used, the request is that they refer to the actual genders of the...

Useful Plants Abounding!

Written by Asha on April 23, 2006. Posted in Businesses, Food, Gardens. No Comments on Useful Plants Abounding!

by Arjuna da Silva Another sign of Spring at Earthaven is the expansion of Chuck Marsh’s Useful Plants Nursery from his homesite in Benchmark neighborhood. The nursery grows permaculture and edible landscaping plants that are well adapted to our mountains and the surrounding bioregions,...

News from Council Hall

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 6, 2006. Posted in Community Service, Natural Building, Village Economics, Village Life. No Comments on News from Council Hall

By Ivy Lynn In our Council Hall, the new and gorgeous, luminescent granite and marble mosaic floor is finally finished! The design for the floor was created by Jessica Evans and provided an opportunity for Earthaven to support sweat equity by approval of Jessica’s proposal to barter half...

Imani

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 23, 2006. Posted in Farms, Food, Village Terraces. No Comments on Imani

It is so heartening to see so much progress, in the realm of animal husbandry, happening at Imani. The barn and the rock retaining wall in front of it, embody the combination of practicality and aesthetic harmony we appreciate in our central village farms. The picture to the left shows the...

Season of New Beginnings

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 22, 2006. Posted in Cosmology, Farms, Nature. No Comments on Season of New Beginnings

by Arjuna da Silva In Oriental metaphoric tradition, Spring’s direction is East, its color yellow (or green-yellow), its quality innocence. The time of day is sunrise, and it corresponds to the Wood element. Its animal image is an eagle, flying high over the landscape. Spring is a time of...