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We Give Thanks for Juan Jo Qualia Farm

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on November 15, 2006. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Farms, Food. No Comments on We Give Thanks for Juan Jo Qualia Farm

by Ivy Lynn As we approach the holiday known as Thanksgiving, it seems fitting to acknowledge the gratefulness so many of us feel to have been eating vegetables grown by Juan Jo Qualia Farm in the Hut Hamlet this year. It is so important to the success of our ecovillage that we keep moving toward...

Meeting New Members

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 22, 2006. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Hickory Knob, Members, Village Terraces. No Comments on Meeting New Members

by Arjuna da Silva We’d love to introduce you to our most recent members, with apologies to all who’ve come before and those after that we neglect to feature. There are so many things to write about, to update you on, that it becomes impossible to include it all. But here’s a little...

Earthaveners love Starhawk

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 1, 2006. Posted in Businesses, Nature, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Earthaveners love Starhawk

by Ivy Lynn Many of the women of Earthaven attended the Second Annual Southeast Women’s Herbal Conference held during the Fall Equinox, sponsored by Red Moon Herbs. Starhawk’s presence as this year’s keynote speaker was particularly significant for Earthaveners. Starhawk is well...

Vedanta

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 11, 2006. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Conscious Dying. No Comments on Vedanta

by Arjuna da Silva We’ll remember you. Remember us. We love you, Vedanta. Phrases painted into the collective painting that began the night after Vedanta died, March 22, and was completed on his birthday, April 14 (now officially Ananda Vedanta Music & Art Day) at a “hippie”...

Shoes Off!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on May 15, 2006. Posted in Conscious Relating, Social Events, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Shoes Off!

Being Healed by the Earth “American feet are atrophied; they don’t develop, they are inarticulate,” says Warren Grossman, energy healer and author of the book, To Be Healed By The Earth, pointing out that in cultures where people don’t wear shoes, the toes spread and the feet...

Practicing Gender Appropriate Languaging (GAL)

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on May 3, 2006. Posted in Conscious Relating, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Practicing Gender Appropriate Languaging (GAL)

by Arjuna da Silva It’s not unusual for new folks at Earthaven to feel overwhelmed by many of our members’ insistence on the use of gender appropriate language; that is, when gender specific pronouns and nouns are used, the request is that they refer to the actual genders of the people...

Season of New Beginnings

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 22, 2006. Posted in Cosmology, Farms, Nature. No Comments on Season of New Beginnings

by Arjuna da Silva In Oriental metaphoric tradition, Spring’s direction is East, its color yellow (or green-yellow), its quality innocence. The time of day is sunrise, and it corresponds to the Wood element. Its animal image is an eagle, flying high over the landscape. Spring is a time of many...

The 9th Continental Bioregional Congress

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on January 6, 2006. Posted in Conscious Relating, Social Events, Spirit and Culture, Village Economics. No Comments on The 9th Continental Bioregional Congress

Earthaven Ecovillage, July 2005 Over five months later, we offer these highlights from Cathy’s daily reports: People came from all over the country, from the Ozarks, Chesapeake Bay, Minnesota, the Great Lakes, Florida, California, Puget Sound, Texas, Mississippi, and Maine; from as far away...