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Healing People and the Planet with Swami Ravi Rudra Bharati

Earthaven Ecovillage Podcast Healing People and the Planet with Swami Ravi Rudra Bharati Broadcast November 1, 2021Featuring: Swami Ravi Rudra Bharati Swami Ravi Rudra Bharati, formerly known as Dr. Rudolph Valentine, has been very committed to the integration of Eastern thought, particularly...

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From Permaculture to Regional Mutual Aid with Zev Friedman

Earthaven Ecovillage Podcast From Permaculture to Regional Mutual Aid with Zev Friedman Broadcast March 29, 2021Featuring: Zev Friedman and Diana Leafe Christian In this podcast, Zev Friedman shares how he started living and teaching permaculture at Earthaven Ecovillage, and then how that led...

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What Is Permaculture?

Our world is always looking for things to be boiled down to a soundbite. Sometimes complex things can’t be conveyed in a summary or a sentence. I recently found a phrase from an article entitled The Indigenous Science of Permaculture by Rohini Walker that, for me, conveys the essence of Permaculture: “An...

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Mulching with Leon from Full Circle Farm at Earthaven Ecovillage

(Transcript from video) Courtney Brooke:  Good Morning Leon. What are you doing? Leon: We are mulching. You take the cover crop and we’re spreading it out so no weeds will grow through. And no sun will hit the ground. And we’re gonna move this greenhouse onto it. Then plant some ginger. Courtney...

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Roadside Agroforestry in North Georgia with Courtney Brooke

(Transcript from Video) Courtney Brooke: Well, we’re not at Earthaven, but you know I’m still on planet earth and just seeing this. I’m on the side of the highway in north Georgia. I’m like driving by and I’m like:  Wow! look at those trees blooming. Then I realized...

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It Takes A Village

We recently revamped our entire outreach process. You’re hearing more from us by email. We’re making lots of videos to share with you. And we are engaging more on social media. During our first two decades on the ground at Earthaven we didn’t have much capacity for outreach. And sometimes...

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My Experiences With Permaculture

  My training with land and culture repair has fallen in the realms of deep ecology, nature connection, mentoring with the wild, wilderness awareness, and racial equity realms. Huge shout out to some of my mentors in these wisdom ways: Sobonfu Somé Warren Brush and the whole Quail Springs...

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AlnoCulture; Alder Tree as a living trellis with Courtney Brooke at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcript from video: Courtney Brooke: Good morning, it’s Courtney Brooke here. I wanted to show you another exciting plant in our landscape which is called an Alder. It’s a tree; it’s these trees here. This is a baby one. It was planted about …maybe two years ago. Here’s...

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The Lumber Yard Gets a Design Upgrade at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcript from Video: Paul: Then the trailer is going to be over in there next to the tree. Zev: Oh, OK, Good. Paul: So, Yeah, if this is sloped enough, there will never be any wet pools. Zev: Yeah, it looks kind of like there needs to be a little more digging out right through here to get a little...

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Hurricane Helene has impacted Earthaven:

Roads, bridges, hydro systems, and a residence sustained heavy damage. We are all uninjured and involved in recovery work. Please support our recovery by donating here or through our GoFundMe.