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Diana Leafe Christian FIC’s Communitarian of the Year!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 1, 2017. Posted in Celebrations, Community Service, Conscious Relating, Members. No Comments on Diana Leafe Christian FIC’s Communitarian of the Year!

Diana Leafe Christian, international author, workshop leader, and advocate for ecovillages, community living, and the Sociocracy governance method, receives the Fellowship for Intentional Community’s (FIC) 2018 Geoph Kozeny Communitarian Award at the West Coast Communities Conference in San Diego...

Letting Go Slowly

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 27, 2017. Posted in Chosen Family, Conscious Dying, Hut Hamlet, Members. No Comments on Letting Go Slowly

When you fall in love with community-mates, over time and through all kinds of circumstances, you develop a relationship very much like family. When they leave or die, it’s an amazing loss and also a treasure trove of meaningful connection and nourishing memory. We can’t say enough about them,...

Beloved Member, Friend, Community Leader Kimchi Rylander passes away at 56

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 25, 2017. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Chosen Family, Conscious Dying, Members. No Comments on Beloved Member, Friend, Community Leader Kimchi Rylander passes away at 56

by Sarah Anne Amazon Kimchi Rylander came into my life 10 years ago at the Southeastern Permaculture gathering in Celo, NC. In the last year of her life, we were on “The Divine Feminine” committee for the gathering and when we met she would share her perspective, saying,...

Earthaven Turns 22!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 30, 2016. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Members, Social Events. No Comments on Earthaven Turns 22!

Earthaven celebrated our 22nd birthday on September 11th. We held a community-wide check-in, giving new and long-term members a special opportunity to sit together in a big circle, catch up with each other and touch hearts. The annual parade down Another Way stopped to celebrate completion of the...

We love you, Rosetta! – Rosetta Neff, Earthaven’s Oldest Member, Passes Away

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on June 20, 2016. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Chosen Family, Conscious Dying, Members, Persimmon Grove. No Comments on We love you, Rosetta! – Rosetta Neff, Earthaven’s Oldest Member, Passes Away

Rosetta Neff, Earthaven’s eldest member—who celebrated her 100th birthday at Earthaven in January—passed away at Solace Hospice in Asheville on May 17th. Many of her closest friends and neighbors from Earthaven visited her at the hospice. Her daughter, Diana Leafe Christian, also an Earthaven member,...

Young Family, Farm Family

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 5, 2016. Posted in Families and Children, Farms, Members, Persimmon Grove. No Comments on Young Family, Farm Family

Editor’s note: Andy Bosley and Julie McMahan have operated Yellowroot Farm at Earthaven continuously for ten years. During that time, they managed to incorporate the startup of three ag fields. The Hut Hamlet field was first leased in ’05, and the Horn of Plenty near the campground in about ’08. Persimmon...

Eldest Earthavener, Rosetta Neff, celebrates a century!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 3, 2016. Posted in Celebrations, Celebrations and Gratitudes, Members, Persimmon Grove. No Comments on Eldest Earthavener, Rosetta Neff, celebrates a century!

We glimpsed Rosetta’s beginnings in Indiana, her early move to and marriage in Los Angeles, her family’s move to Hawaii and her own world travels while a career employee with the airlines. Perhaps the most enticing pictures of all were those of Rosetta we were told she sent to her husband when he...

Missing Finch

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 22, 2015. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Chosen Family, Members, Village Terraces. No Comments on Missing Finch

Lee “Finch” Finks passed away on June 20, after several years of declining health. He was 80. He joined Earthaven in 2006 after retiring from a career as librarian and then professor of library science. He will be remembered for his warm, friendly manner; his love for family and friends; and his...

Goodbye to Brian Love

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 22, 2015. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Gateway, Members, Natural Building. No Comments on Goodbye to Brian Love

We are saddened to report that Earthaven Member Brian Love passed away in March of 2015. Brian contributed enormously to the agricultural and technological development of our community, contributed countless hours of creative design, planning, management and physical labor to land-based and building...

Beauty on the Bridge – A Wonder of the World!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on February 25, 2015. Posted in Cosmology, Ecological Design, Members, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Beauty on the Bridge – A Wonder of the World!

by Gaspar Robles I took on the bridge project because I had a vision of a thing of beauty at the crossroads of our community. My plans originally included more extensive stonework, but in the end I settled for a strong and simple foundation with a pyramid at one end. I collected stones for...