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The Spring Greenhouse at Earthaven Ecovillage: Our Hope for the Summer

Written by Courtney Brooke on March 18, 2021. Posted in Businesses, Farms, Gardens, Gateway, Regenerative Agriculture, Village Economics. No Comments on The Spring Greenhouse at Earthaven Ecovillage: Our Hope for the Summer

Transcription of The Spring Greenhouse at Earthaven Ecovillage: Our Hope for the Summer Courtney Brooke: Here we are in the greenhouse at Full Circle Farm at Earthaven Ecovillage in the early spring. Here it’s raining, it’s kind of cold outside and here is what we’ve...

Chicken Wrangling at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by NikiAnne Feinberg on March 16, 2021. Posted in Businesses, Families and Children, Farms, Persimmon Grove, Regenerative Agriculture. No Comments on Chicken Wrangling at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcription from the Chicken Wrangling NikiAnne: We’re out here at the horn of plenty field with nutter, the great pyrenees and a bunch of chicks.Broiler chicks.And some wranglers.So that these chicks are protected from the hawks.They obviously have a mind of their own...

What does the creation of true wealth look like?

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on June 27, 2020. Posted in Farms, Gardens, Natural Building, Permaculture, Village Life. No Comments on What does the creation of true wealth look like?

Here are a few snippets of what we think it looks like around the village! (Photos from before and during COVID)

Why I Bother to Farm at Earthaven, Part Two: A Collaborative Farming Manifesto

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on February 3, 2018. Posted in Farms, Food, Gardens, Permaculture, Regenerative Agriculture. No Comments on Why I Bother to Farm at Earthaven, Part Two: A Collaborative Farming Manifesto

Written by: by Zev Friedman Now in its 24th year, I believe that Earthaven is in a stage of cultural succession in which collaborative farming has more of a role to play than in the early years. The pioneer effort of Earthaven’s first two decades created both the literal and...

Pioneering and Succession

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 29, 2017. Posted in Articles, Farms, Food, Gardens, Permaculture, Regenerative Agriculture. No Comments on Pioneering and Succession

Written by: Zev Friedman “The pioneer effort that founded Earthaven created both literal and cultural topsoil, which is now capable of supporting not only plants but the human systems it takes to successfully grow food.” I’ve heard early members of Earthaven frequently remark that this ecovillage...

Young Family, Farm Family

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 5, 2016. Posted in Families and Children, Farms, Members, Persimmon Grove. No Comments on Young Family, Farm Family

Editor’s note: Andy Bosley and Julie McMahan have operated Yellowroot Farm at Earthaven continuously for ten years. During that time, they managed to incorporate the startup of three ag fields. The Hut Hamlet field was first leased in ’05, and the Horn of Plenty near the campground in about ’08. Persimmon...

Spring!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 22, 2015. Posted in Farms, Gardens, Village Economics, Village Life. No Comments on Spring!

Spring came early with intimations of summer, then backed off for a few freezing nights and turned around for a balmy re-entrance. Buds already opening on fruit and berry branches may not all recover, but many were slow bloomers and will make it. NikiAnne was out touring when Mana’s mom Dorien...

Posse Poulet

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 25, 2014. Posted in Articles, Farms, Food, Village Economics. No Comments on Posse Poulet

By Zev Friedman Thirteen Hut Hamlet neighbors recently established a chicken co-op, endearingly referred to as Posse Poulet. From these 50 or so birds, we have been receiving almost all of our needed eggs, and we’re looking ahead to a possible moderate increase in number of birds, including...

Sheep Shearing

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on November 3, 2013. Posted in Farms, Gateway, Regenerative Agriculture, Village Economics. No Comments on Sheep Shearing

The sheep got sheared at Gateway Farm in Late October…. Shearing the Sheep Skirting the Fleeces The Fleeces The Shearers

Field Day at Cove Creek Farm

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on June 22, 2013. Posted in Businesses, Community Service, Farms, People Care. No Comments on Field Day at Cove Creek Farm

by Rae Jean On a Saturday in mid-June, several folks from Earthaven went to our neighbors’ farm. It was a great day filled with many chores to assist Cove Creek Farm in planting and to learn more about where our local food comes from. Alvin Lytle, his father, Therman, sister June, and...