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Lush and Ripe

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 2, 2015. Posted in Articles, Food, Gardens, Permaculture. No Comments on Lush and Ripe

Celebrating elderberry season! Walking in more than one Earthaven neighborhood in July, you would have enjoyed the dark, luminous clusters of elderberry hanging from both the older, taller trees and ones just beginning to bear. And while folks do harvest some of the white flower clusters earlier...

Can We Slow Down?

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 25, 2015. Posted in Articles, Families and Children, Nature, Village Life. No Comments on Can We Slow Down?

by Arjuna da Silva When Camp Elliott Road was still unpaved, in dry spells we had to crawl “like the Elliotts” so cars and homes wouldn’t be enveloped in clouds of dust. We agreed to the paving for that reason, but ease brings speed, and attempts to self-regulate to 10 mph or less have been spotty. We’ve...

Critters in the Yard

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 1, 2014. Posted in Articles, Nature. No Comments on Critters in the Yard

by Peggy Austin-Malone I’m not sure if it was the full moon that made all these visitors appear, but we sure had fun watching the black snake scale our house and the box turtle come see us at our front door today, while we were admiring the nests of a Carolina Wren and an Eastern Wood-Pewee,...

Posse Poulet

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 25, 2014. Posted in Articles, Farms, Food, Village Economics. No Comments on Posse Poulet

By Zev Friedman Thirteen Hut Hamlet neighbors recently established a chicken co-op, endearingly referred to as Posse Poulet. From these 50 or so birds, we have been receiving almost all of our needed eggs, and we’re looking ahead to a possible moderate increase in number of birds, including...

Firekeeping for the Commons

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 11, 2014. Posted in Articles, Spirit and Culture, Uncategorized. No Comments on Firekeeping for the Commons

by Kimchi Rylander As Firekeeper (aka President) of Earthaven for 2014, I am excited to announce that we will be turning 20 years old this year! Earthaven has been an intentional community seed bed all these years, attracting villagers to settle and explore what it means to take responsibility...

Cultivating New Community Members Starts with New Roots

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 8, 2014. Posted in Articles, Membership, New Roots, Visitors. No Comments on Cultivating New Community Members Starts with New Roots

by Arjuna da Silva Among the many new and exciting things life in an ecovillage exposes us to—new ideas, new diets, new techniques and technologies, new celebrations—one of the most vital are the new people we meet! Our gate is open to visitors who may come for a tour, a workshop, to visit friends...

Council Hall Gets a New Coat

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 8, 2014. Posted in Articles, Members, Natural Building. No Comments on Council Hall Gets a New Coat

Long-time member and natural builder Mollie Curry trained a crew of Earthaveners in earthen plaster repair and lime plaster techniques over the past year, and the interior walls of the great hall are wearing a new, slightly tinted Spring coat. After completing the rest of the interior straw bale walls,...

Throw it “Away” – A De-Salvage Operation at Salvation Alley

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 7, 2014. Posted in Articles, Community Service, Natural Building, Uncategorized. No Comments on Throw it “Away” – A De-Salvage Operation at Salvation Alley

by Andy Bosley This March, Earthaven residents participated in a “Spring Cleaning” event, sorting through a ton of stuff (kept because someone once thought each item would someday be “useful)” and hauling much of it “away” in a trailer of metal and a couple of dumpsters of trash. Items from...

‘Tis the Season of the Students

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 5, 2014. Posted in Ecological Design, Gardens, Regenerative Agriculture, Visitors. No Comments on ‘Tis the Season of the Students

by NikiAnne Feinberg Several weekends in a row this past April, we had the pleasure of hosting college groups from the College of Charleston, Furman University, and Elon University. We dig bamboo, but how many shoots can we eat?! Bamboo needs maintenance to keep it from overextending its boundaries....

Local Economics at Work: Earthaven’s Bizarre Bazaar

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on January 5, 2014. Posted in Social Events, Village Economics, Visitors. No Comments on Local Economics at Work: Earthaven’s Bizarre Bazaar

by River Otter Earthaven’s annual holiday Bazaar is one of our community’s focal points for creating economics on the village scale. Each year in December, Earthaven members, neighbors, friends and visitors gather in the Council Hall for an afternoon of food, fun, games, and holiday vending. This...