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)
Author: Earthaven Admin Team
The Value of Happiness and Connection
Add value to your and your loved ones’ lives by spending quality time in nature… observing, playing, laughing, and exploring. Below are nature adventures and activities as well as some perspective from Lia Grippo, Reaching Nature Connection Conference Instructor and our colleagues...
Savings Loan Pool
On June 11, 2020, fourteen Earthaven members and neighbors formed the Earthaven Valley Business Savings Loan Pool – the first savings loan pool at Earthaven and the first savings loan pool formed with the mentorship of Co-operate WNC.
In a savings loan pool, a group of people saves...
Black Lives Matter – Resources to Heal our Communities
Dear Earthaven Family,
Awareness is at the core of community. Usually we write to you with inspiration to deepen connections to each other and the natural world. As a predominantly white community, we write to you today with a different awareness:
Of our privilege, of the structures of...
Behind the Scenes – Care Bubbles
What’s the children’s equivalent to social distancing? Gabriel Vieira, one of our community’s early childhood educators, has devised an answer: care bubbles!
Here’s what Gabriel had to say about his “care bubble” lesson: “Social distancing is grown-up speak, technical, dry, even a bit...
Converging Paths: the Carbon Harvest Program
Have you ever heard of carbon trading or carbon markets? In our Converging Paths segment, we’ll learn about a fresh new take on this idea that will empower individuals, organizations, and farmers in Western North Carolina to take a different kind of environmental action.
Co-operate WNC—a...
Behind the Scenes – the Big Day
The Big Day, as it is so often referred to, is not merely a symbol of two people sharing their devotion in the company of loved ones; all too often it also represents the internalized values of consumer culture. This means that stress, pressure, and anxiety make as much of an entrance as wedding...
Celebrating the 2nd Annual Compassion Camp at Earthaven
Over 100 people passionate about living and promoting compassionate consciousness gathered in August to learn, play, and celebrate together. It was a wonderful weekend full of life… smiles, tears, dancing, deep connections, new friendships, and wonderment filled the village. If you...
Legal at Last
By Diana Leafe Christian
If you see us smiling broadly these days, it’s because in January 2019 we finally finished our legal restructuring process, underway since we learned the severity of our financial/legal structure issues in 2010. Now every Earthaven member and our entire 329-acre mountain...
25 Ways To Build Community In Your Neighborhood
Do you long for community? Do you want to live in a place where kids play together in front yards and adults hang out on front porches? Well, you can, starting with where you live right now. You don’t have to live in an intentional community to have community.
Community isn’t the sort of...