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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...

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...

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...

Naia’s Garden at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on March 19, 2021. Posted in Families and Children, Gardens, Village Life. No Comments on Naia’s Garden at Earthaven Ecovillage

Courtney Brooke: It’s a beautiful Wednesday morning garden session over here at the Gateway neighborhood. That’s some little garden gnome over here… Good morning yarrow! Good morning snapdragons! Good morning oregano! Sam: Wow! Like a little special plant kind of in the mix you know what...

Rainy Day Commute at Earthaven Ecovillage with Courtney Brooke

Written by Courtney Brooke on March 19, 2021. Posted in Nature, Village Life. No Comments on Rainy Day Commute at Earthaven Ecovillage with Courtney Brooke

(Transcript) Courtney Brooke: One of the things I most love about living at Earthhaven is my commute to work a lot of times is you know a five-minute walk or a three minute walk. Today it happens to be a three-minute walk in the rain. Which is so nice and one of the other things that I love so much...