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The Snake Catcher

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on July 18, 2011. Posted in Farms, Members, Village Terraces. No Comments on The Snake Catcher

Black snakes love eggs. Martha became a snake catcher when one-too-many a black snake coiled itself around a nest of hard-won chicken eggs at Imani Farm, where Martha manages the chicken operation. Chicken and songbird eggs alike are safe wherever Martha may roam. Martha relocates the snakes...

Celebrating Imbolc

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 1, 2011. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Families and Children, Farms, Village Terraces. No Comments on Celebrating Imbolc

This year Imbolc, also known as Brigid’s Day, Candlemas, or Groundhog Day fell, on February 2nd. Group of celebrants at Imani Farm to bless the animals. Kaitlin hangs the Brigid cross on the Imani barn. Standing around after the...

Local Food All Winter

Written by Eli on February 7, 2011. Posted in Celebrations, Farms, Gardens, Regenerative Agriculture, Village Terraces. No Comments on Local Food All Winter

Tomatoes! Garlic! Chicken Stock! And that’s just the beginning The author, Eli, here with cheese squash. At the Village Terraces common kitchen we haven’t stopped eating a diet based on local foods just because it’s February. In fact, we’re practically swimming in foods from our farm,...

It Never Snows in NC

Written by Lee Warren on January 14, 2011. Posted in Families and Children, Fun and Play, Hut Hamlet, Nature, Village Terraces. No Comments on It Never Snows in NC

Group of mostly adults sledding after a snowstorm this week. It never snows in North Carolina. “Or so I was told,” said Tanya Carwyn, who moved to Earthaven from Colorado two years ago. “So I sold my skis before I left.” The other common thing you’ll hear people say...

3 Women And a Sugar Baby

Written by Lee Warren on September 2, 2010. Posted in Celebrations, Gardens, Regenerative Agriculture, Village Terraces. No Comments on 3 Women And a Sugar Baby

And Other Village Terraces Cohousing Neighborhood News Watermelon Love Jenna, Marie, and Liz enjoy Sugar Baby Watermelon from the Village Terraces Cohousing Neighborhood garden. “I never even liked watermelon before now” says Liz Diaz. Small and sweet with a green rind, red flesh,...

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...

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...

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...

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...