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Moving the Mobile Coops for Pastured Chickens with Andy at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on April 21, 2021. Posted in Farms, Village Life. No Comments on Moving the Mobile Coops for Pastured Chickens with Andy at Earthaven Ecovillage

Courtney Brooke: Hey Andy! Andy: Hey! Courtney Brooke: What are you doing? Andy: Well I’m moving the chickens to a fresh spot. Courtney Brooke: Oh; good morning chickens! Well, that’s quite a lot of chickens. How many chickens is that? Andy: Well, we started with a little over a hundred...

Robbie Wheelock reflecting on Earthaven Ecovillage Experience Week

Written by Lee Warren on April 19, 2021. Posted in Earthaven Education, In-Person Events, People Care, Permaculture. No Comments on Robbie Wheelock reflecting on Earthaven Ecovillage Experience Week

(Transcript from video) Hey there. I’m Robbie Wheelock. And I was a participant of the Earthaven Experience Week. Being from Asheville, and being from school at the time, that was something that I felt would be a good supplement to the education I was receiving. There was a lot of hard learning...

The Candle Factory at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on April 18, 2021. Posted in Businesses, Village Economics, Village Life. No Comments on The Candle Factory at Earthaven Ecovillage

(Transcript from video) Paul: You can see how it shrinks down. This one here didn’t. The thin ones don’t shrink down so much, the deeper ones do. Courtney Brooke: What are you all doing? Paul: We’re talking about candles wax behavior. Courtney Brooke: Wow! Look at that candle. Paul:...

Living Fences & Intergenerational Pruning at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on April 15, 2021. Posted in Gardens, Permaculture, Village Life. No Comments on Living Fences & Intergenerational Pruning at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcript from video: Courtney: What are y’all doing? Zev: Stone’s giving me a sawdust snack. Pruning. Courtney: What kind of tree is that? Stone: Ash. Ah it doesn’t taste like ash though. Courtney: Ash. Zev: And we’ve been pruning black locusts and mulberries and this is...

Furniture Building Advice & Mentoring at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on April 12, 2021. Posted in Businesses, Village Life. No Comments on Furniture Building Advice & Mentoring at Earthaven Ecovillage

(Transcript from video) Paul: And it comes all the way from here to here. It’s that one that that makes this be flat. And then you build from that. The pieces that are also fastened but come to where the leg is going to be. You know where… Gabriel: And those, they just they just fasten...

Caring For Our People

Written by NikiAnne Feinberg on April 10, 2021. Posted in Online Events, People Care. No Comments on Caring For Our People

There are about 125 of us living at Earthaven in rural Western North Carolina carving out land-based lives in the forest. Earthaven Ecovillage started in 1994 and for over 25 years has been experimenting with physical, social, and economic systems that embody a different way of being. Different...

NikiAnne in the Ox Eye Daisy Patch at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Lee Warren on March 26, 2021. Posted in Gardens, Village Life. No Comments on NikiAnne in the Ox Eye Daisy Patch at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcription: NikiAnne: So, this green friend was introduced to me by my friend, Dimitri. It is ox eye daisy. It grows so well, it reseeds itself and it’s just coming up. It’s spring and so it’s going to get a little fuller and eventually bloom into what are called ox eye daisies. These...

NikiAnne and the Firewood Stack at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Lee Warren on March 25, 2021. Posted in Heat, Village Life. No Comments on NikiAnne and the Firewood Stack at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcription from video: NikiAnne: Oh my gosh, I love my firewood. Thanks to my partner Chris Farmer who built this! This is under a plastic like greenhouse roofing corrugated that allows a lot of sun to get through. Keeps it dry and we have cut it to really short lengths so that it fits in our...

Bio Char with Zev & Dimitri, at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on March 25, 2021. Posted in Gardens, Natural Building, Village Life. No Comments on Bio Char with Zev & Dimitri, at Earthaven Ecovillage

Dimitri: We’re at Earthaven Ecovillage with Zev Friedman in the Hut Hamlet neighborhood. We are now watering this char that’s made from bamboo in this Kon-tiki. Zev: Teensy micro Kon-tiki kiln, otherwise known as hickory nut pounding charcoal pounding vessel. Oh yeah..look at that beautiful...

Dr. Monique Mazza’s Raised Beds at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on March 24, 2021. Posted in Gardens, Village Life. No Comments on Dr. Monique Mazza’s Raised Beds at Earthaven Ecovillage

Hi all! This is Dr Monique Mazza from our home in Earthaven Ecovillage and I’m inviting you today to talk about our raised beds. These are three or four raised beds that we have here. Why do we have raised beds instead of planting right in the ground? Well there’s several benefits. For...