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Village Arts Building Takes Shape and You Can Help Too!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on July 25, 2010. Posted in Businesses, Natural Building. No Comments on Village Arts Building Takes Shape and You Can Help Too!

by Arjuna da Silva, Earthaven Founder and natural building enthusiast An exciting development on Another Way this year has been the slow but steady progress on the Village Arts Building (VAB). Located right before the entrance to Useful Plants Nursery and the Third Creek Crossing, the VAB is the...

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...

Village Arts Building – It’s a Sign!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 27, 2009. Posted in Natural Building, Village Economics. No Comments on Village Arts Building – It’s a Sign!

Growing a community from the forest forward happens on so many levels. Creating decision-making protocols and gaining skill with them; discovering the lay of the land and working out site plans; developing infrastructure and sources of funding. Living with each other and deepening our connections....

Council Hall Completion Campaign – Moving Ahead to Phase Three: We Need Your Help!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on August 5, 2009. Posted in Costs, Ecological Design, Natural Building, Village Economics. No Comments on Council Hall Completion Campaign – Moving Ahead to Phase Three: We Need Your Help!

This fall we want to complete the Council Hall. We have a plan and most of the funding, but need to raise a little more money. We are all into the wisdom of ecological sustainability and intentional community, and creating a partnership culture — but it takes a lot of hard work and cash to get there....

Natural building profile: Pokeberry

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 22, 2009. Posted in Ecological Design, Natural Building, Village Terraces. No Comments on Natural building profile: Pokeberry

(Talk by Chris Farmer to a visitors’ tour, describing the upstairs of the new building at Village Terraces) Chris Farmer and Brian Love are the two main builders of Pokeberry Hill, a two story dwelling built using ecological principles. Farmer started by noting that many innovative building techniques...

New Buildings Sprout Up in Spring

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on May 1, 2007. Posted in Bellavia Gardens, Natural Building, Village Terraces. No Comments on New Buildings Sprout Up in Spring

In April a site blessing ceremony was held for the new duplex apartment, “Pokeberry Hill,” going up at Village Terraces. The 26 ft. x 40 ft. building is being built with lumber milled from trees felled on the land. The ground floor apartment will be the home of new Earthaven and Village...

Gateway: Solutions in the Face of Insufficiency

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 15, 2006. Posted in Farms, Forestry, Gateway, Natural Building, Permaculture. No Comments on Gateway: Solutions in the Face of Insufficiency

by Ivy Lynn The bright, creative thinking and dedicated, diligent work of Chris Farmer and Brian Love are the stuff of future Earthaven legends. Folks are always wanting to know what amazing things they’ve been up to. Considering their plan for Gateway Field, we will probably not be disappointed,...

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 her...

Sustainable Systems

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on January 8, 2006. Posted in Businesses, Gateway, Natural Building, Solar Power. No Comments on Sustainable Systems

Two of our most enterprising and innovative problem-solvers are Chris Farmer and Brian Love. These guys have been “wrapping their minds around” how to make building at Earthaven more efficient and sustainable. Some of their solutions are manifest in their truck, outfitted with everything...

At the top of Suncatcher Way

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on January 7, 2006. Posted in Ecological Design, Natural Building, Upper Rosy Branch. No Comments on At the top of Suncatcher Way

Geoff and Sue Stone came to Earthaven years ago with visions of building a typically Southwestern, passive solar “earthship” as their environmentally sustainable home. After experimenting with techniques by building a community root cellar in the Village Center, they went on to create...