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Business profile: Southeast Wise Women

Written by Lee Warren on July 21, 2010. Posted in Businesses, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Business profile: Southeast Wise Women

Women will gather from across the Southeast at the 6thannual Southeast Women’s Herbal Conference on October 1-3, at Lake Eden in scenic Black Mountain, NC. With over 60 classes by more than 30 teachers, the weekend focuses on herbal education, nourishing foods, wholistic sexuality, and ecology. The...

News Notes – early Spring 2010

Written by Debbie on March 1, 2010. Posted in Businesses, Neighborhoods, Village Life. No Comments on News Notes – early Spring 2010

Greetings from Earthaven Ecovillage! We’re enjoying the first few days of spring – with daffodils blooming and long strings of toad eggs in the ponds. Marie Reilly became a full member on February 28. Current provisional members Tanya Carwyn and Troy Swift will soon have company...

News Notes – Winter 2009

Written by Debbie on November 28, 2009. Posted in Businesses, Social Events, Village Life. No Comments on News Notes – Winter 2009

Greetings from Earthaven Ecovillage! All of the leaves are off the trees and we just had our first really frosty morning – unusually late for our area! In October we had a wonderful Village Harvest Festival, featuring local crafts and food, tours and musicians. The weather was beautiful...

Neighbor Profile: Leon Birstein and Geni Stephenson, of Full Circle Family Farm

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 1, 2009. Posted in Businesses, Chosen Family, Farms, Permaculture. No Comments on Neighbor Profile: Leon Birstein and Geni Stephenson, of Full Circle Family Farm

Just outside Earthaven’s main entrance lies the homestead farm of Geni Stephenson and Leon Birstein. Like many of our neighbors, Geni and Leon used to be Earthaven members. They lived at Earthaven in the early days, helping to carve out a space in the forest. They helped build some of the very first...

The Wise Women of the Blue Ridge Are At It Again

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 28, 2009. Posted in Businesses, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on The Wise Women of the Blue Ridge Are At It Again

If you plan to visit Earthaven the weekend of October 2-4, don’t expect to see many women. Not only do Earthaven and neighbor women organize the conference, but it has become such a draw that Earthaven is virtually “men-only” when the Earthaven and neighbor women head down the mountain to the beautiful...

A Visit With Useful Plants Nursery

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on July 25, 2009. Posted in Businesses, Gardens, Permaculture, Regenerative Agriculture. No Comments on A Visit With Useful Plants Nursery

Alice Henry and Matt Kolosky (Southern Connecticut State University) interviewed Useful Plants Nursery Manager Bruce Johnston. Bruce took us on a tour of the nursery, pointing out plants and answering questions as we went. We began our tour by visiting some of the medicinal and edible shrubs that...

Forest children seedlings

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 24, 2009. Posted in Businesses, Families and Children, Village School for Kids. No Comments on Forest children seedlings

by Tanya Carwyn The Seedlings Program is the early childhood part of the Forest Children Parents’ Cooperative. It is inspired by Waldorf education, a way of teaching and being with children devised by turn-of-the-last-century scientist and philosopher Rudolf Steiner (who is also the father of...

$7,000 Grant to Offer Support to Local Organic Farmers

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 30, 2007. Posted in Businesses, Regenerative Agriculture. No Comments on $7,000 Grant to Offer Support to Local Organic Farmers

In January, 2007, Culture’s Edge, the nonprofit educational organization founded and staffed by Earthaven members, received its first grant: $7,000, from the North Carolina-based resourceful Communities Program.”We applied for the grant to help Culture’s Edge develop into a more...

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...

Useful Plants Abounding!

Written by Asha on April 23, 2006. Posted in Businesses, Food, Gardens. No Comments on Useful Plants Abounding!

by Arjuna da Silva Another sign of Spring at Earthaven is the expansion of Chuck Marsh’s Useful Plants Nursery from his homesite in Benchmark neighborhood. The nursery grows permaculture and edible landscaping plants that are well adapted to our mountains and the surrounding bioregions, with...