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Autumn forest beauty as we took our forest inventory at Earthaven

Doing the Forest Inventory, by Alice Henry

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on January 12, 2012. Posted in Community Service, Forestry, Nature. No Comments on Doing the Forest Inventory, by Alice Henry

It’s a dance of sorts. It starts in a circle, holding hands. There’s a break, for talking. Then there are the reels through the woods, discovering the way the forest grows. It’s also a future legend that starts like this. Once upon a time Earthaven hired a forester, Shawn Swartz (who used to be...

Musings on Membership

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 3, 2011. Posted in Membership. No Comments on Musings on Membership

by Todd Edward Having taken this step in the community’s membership process, I find myself with a few (mostly new) notions about my place in the community and in the world. Primarily I am now better poised to more fully participate in the exciting exchange of ideas and opinions that...

Profile of Geoff Stone

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 1, 2011. Posted in Members, Natural Building, Upper Rosy Branch. No Comments on Profile of Geoff Stone

by Davene Wasser Geoff Stone’s wife, Sue, had been reading about intentional communities for years before he paid much attention. He already considered community to be an important part of his life and had always been active in community groups, local festivals, and church groups. When his...

The Tree Climber

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 1, 2011. Posted in Ecological Design, Forestry, Members, Renewable Energy. No Comments on The Tree Climber

by Mana Vermeulen-Mcleod Johnny McLeod is our resident tree climber. He loves hanging out high in the canopies, often overlooking some amazing vistas here in our Blue Ridge Mountains. He started his climbing career in Arkansas some ten years ago and brought his skills to our ecovillage....

Wise Women of the Southeast

Written by Lee Warren on September 6, 2011. Posted in Businesses, Members. No Comments on Wise Women of the Southeast

As women in our 30’s and 40’s, we’ve grown up with the notion that women can do anything. Thanks to our foremothers, we’ve experienced much liberation. Our life paths have taken us back even further to learn the old ways: herbal medicine, home-birth, tending animals, growing food, and sitting in...

Found by a Home

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 1, 2011. Posted in Dancing Shiva, Members. No Comments on Found by a Home

by Norm Self I didn’t come looking for a new home. Yet suddenly last summer, I discovered that Earthaven had found me. My first visit was the summer before, and my purpose was to spend time with my beloved and esteemed Tantra teacher, Rudy Ballentine. I wanted to dig deeper into the joys and...

The Snake Catcher

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on July 18, 2011. Posted in Farms, Members, Village Terraces. No Comments on The Snake Catcher

Black snakes love eggs. Martha became a snake catcher when one-too-many a black snake coiled itself around a nest of hard-won chicken eggs at Imani Farm, where Martha manages the chicken operation. Chicken and songbird eggs alike are safe wherever Martha may roam. Martha relocates the snakes...

Shangri-Laundry

Written by Martha Harris on June 27, 2011. Posted in Ecological Design, Membership, Persimmon Grove, Renewable Energy. No Comments on Shangri-Laundry

The Shangri-Laundry is located in the basement of this building In June 2011 the Forest Garden Neighborhood welcomed Shangri-Laundry, a self-service laundromat that is convenient, green, and clean. Parking is available just past the building. There is one double-load washer and one double-load...

Video Portraits of Two Earthaven Members

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on June 12, 2011. Posted in Earthaven Education, Membership, Video. No Comments on Video Portraits of Two Earthaven Members

Here are two portrait videos made by Jacki Huntington, a UNC journalism student who spent a month here last summer, then returned for a weekend this spring to wrap up her project. One focuses on Michaeljon and the other on redmoonsong. Her article is here. and

Doing the Forest Inventory, by Alice Henry

Musings on Membership

Profile of Geoff Stone

The Tree Climber

Wise Women of the Southeast

Found by a Home

The Snake Catcher

Shangri-Laundry

Video Portraits of Two Earthaven Members

Virtual Earthaven Tour

Sociocracy for Communities, Part One

Working Effectively with Three Kinds of Community Conflict

The Re-membering Retreat