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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...

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‘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....

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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...

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