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Loveletter Corner

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on February 14, 2015. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Medicine Wheel, Uncategorized. No Comments on Loveletter Corner

Georgia Papadakis spent a few months with the Medicine Wheel Collective last year and sent this sweet note from her travels… Hey there, People of Earthaven, This is my belated goodbye. Dominator culture maintains that “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” or that personal growth stems most...

Earthaven Celebrates 20th Anniversary with “Intimate” Gathering of 125 Local Friends and Neighbors!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 22, 2014. Posted in Celebrations, Celebrations and Gratitudes, Chosen Family, Social Events. No Comments on Earthaven Celebrates 20th Anniversary with “Intimate” Gathering of 125 Local Friends and Neighbors!

Twenty years ago on September 11, 1994, a dozen people so disillusioned with existing options for satisfying, life-affirming living situations, put their hands and available capital together to put Earthaven Ecovillage on the Western North Carolina map. This year, in the midst of much rethinking...

Firekeeping for the Commons

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 11, 2014. Posted in Articles, Spirit and Culture, Uncategorized. No Comments on Firekeeping for the Commons

by Kimchi Rylander As Firekeeper (aka President) of Earthaven for 2014, I am excited to announce that we will be turning 20 years old this year! Earthaven has been an intentional community seed bed all these years, attracting villagers to settle and explore what it means to take responsibility...

Thank you Alex & Violetta

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on February 1, 2014. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Conscious Relating, Uncategorized. No Comments on Thank you Alex & Violetta

Last month our friends and favorite facilitators Violetta Ilkiw and Alex Bulkin left after a 10-month internship as our bi-monthly weekend “group conflict and organizational change” cross-mentors. We’re “cross-mentors” because we were mentoring them in the challenges of doing their humble work in...

Rural Academy Theater

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 22, 2013. Posted in Fun and Play, Renewable Energy, Social Events, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Rural Academy Theater

Horse-pulled Theater, Bicycle-powered Cinema, & Live Orchestra at Earthaven! In horse-pulled wagons stocked with a bicycle-powered silent cinema, an Appalachian-balkan-brass-klezmer-dixieland-string ensemble, kinetic sculpture and their signature low-tech theater appliances, the Rural Academy...

The Wedding of Kaitlin & Bruce

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on June 2, 2013. Posted in Celebrations, Celebrations and Gratitudes, Chosen Family, Members, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on The Wedding of Kaitlin & Bruce

by Arjuna da Silva It seems the whole month of May was taken up with the preparations for THE wedding. The village was abuzz with excitement and anticipation for the May 25th event. It was one of those times when everyone comes together to celebrate the same wonderful thing, and old friends...

Paul Caron on the System of Exploitation and the Nature of Happiness

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 22, 2013. Posted in Members, Spirit and Culture, Uncategorized. No Comments on Paul Caron on the System of Exploitation and the Nature of Happiness

Earthaven has many philosophers. We’re awash with abundance when it comes to theories of the industrial complex, natural systems, and know-it-all opinions on just about everything. If we took a vote on the “Most Likely to Philosophize,” it’d be a close race. But one of the...

Aspiring to the Working Class

Written by Lee Warren on November 1, 2012. Posted in Articles, Culture Restoration, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Aspiring to the Working Class

Excerpted from Communities Magazine (Sept. 2012) One-hundred-fifty years ago, 90 percent of people on earth were farmers. This meant that every person in every family knew how to survive. Men and women knew how to work a field, fix tools, build a house, feed themselves. They knew how to raise animals,...

Naming Ceremony

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 23, 2012. Posted in Dancing Shiva, Social Events, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Naming Ceremony

Earthaven members Rudy Ballantine and Norm Self, and resident Banyan Fierer renamed their neighborhood Dancing Shiva to align with their intention to participate in the ongoing creation of pleasure, joy and fulfillment. They named the neighborhood after Shiva, the dancing deity who brings...

Twenty-Twelve And All That Jazz

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on June 22, 2012. Posted in Articles, Cosmology. No Comments on Twenty-Twelve And All That Jazz

by Arjuna da Silva Here’s what’s most exciting to me in the talk about 2012: the ancient stories are in step with results of scientific research and measurement! These correlations may not be getting into the major newspapers or on the radio, but that doesn’t make them any less true. Many scientists...