Celebrations Archives - Earthaven Ecovillage

Seasons Changing: Beltaine Traditions at Earthaven

Written by Kaitlin Ilya Wolf on April 26, 2023. Posted in Celebrations, Celebrations and Gratitudes. No Comments on Seasons Changing: Beltaine Traditions at Earthaven

Kaitlin Ilya Wolf, author of this article Earthaven is like two different villages in the winter and summer. In winter all the leaves are off the trees and everything in the village feels closer together. I can see buildings in other neighborhoods and mountain horizon around us. When the leaves grow...

Paul Caron: The Three Things I Love about Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on March 22, 2021. Posted in Celebrations. No Comments on Paul Caron: The Three Things I Love about Earthaven Ecovillage

Courtney Brooke: All right Paul, what are the three things you most love about living at Earthhaven? Paul Caron: Well, this is going to be a kind of a unique answer because my relationship to Earthaven is different from other people in that I’ve been visioning and working towards this situation...

Behind the Scenes – the Big Day

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on February 2, 2020. Posted in Celebrations, Celebrations and Gratitudes, Chosen Family. No Comments on 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...

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...

New Baby!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 18, 2017. Posted in Celebrations, Families and Children, Village Terraces. No Comments on New Baby!

We’re blessed with the arrival of Jasper Ori Millar-Swiftcreek, born to Julia and Jonathan August 29, Virgo Sun/ Sagittarius Moon! Originally from Richmond, VA, Jonathan came to Earthaven from Asheville in 2009. He is passionate about family and children, and about food production and cooking,...

Dancing Into Our 24th Year!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 15, 2017. Posted in Celebrations, Social Events, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Dancing Into Our 24th Year!

On Monday, September 11th, we turned 23 years young, managed a small parade in the wake of Hurricane Irma weather, and packed the White Owl for a community lunch and some good old socializing! Then on Saturday night, the 16th, nearby Celo-community-based gypsy jazz band Carpathian Spruce lit...

Coming of Age in Community – Mira Tieman Turns 18, and we celebrate!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on July 2, 2016. Posted in Celebrations, Celebrations and Gratitudes, Families and Children. No Comments on Coming of Age in Community – Mira Tieman Turns 18, and we celebrate!

Our teenagers keep growing, and soon the oldest ones will no longer be teens. Mira Biddle Tieman, first baby of a member born since Earthaven began, spent as much time living at Earthaven as her Mom, Tara, could conjure, while living and working in Asheville the rest of the time. They traveled together...

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...

Earthaven Celebrates 20th Anniversary with “Intimate” Gathering of 125 Local Friends and Neighbors!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 22, 2014. Posted in Celebrations, Celebrations and Gratitudes, Chosen Family, Social Events. No Comments on Earthaven Celebrates 20th Anniversary with “Intimate” Gathering of 125 Local Friends and Neighbors!

Twenty years ago on September 11, 1994, a dozen people so disillusioned with existing options for satisfying, life-affirming living situations, put their hands and available capital together to put Earthaven Ecovillage on the Western North Carolina map. This year, in the midst of much rethinking...

The Wedding of Kaitlin & Bruce

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on June 2, 2013. Posted in Celebrations, Celebrations and Gratitudes, Chosen Family, Members, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on The Wedding of Kaitlin & Bruce

by Arjuna da Silva It seems the whole month of May was taken up with the preparations for THE wedding. The village was abuzz with excitement and anticipation for the May 25th event. It was one of those times when everyone comes together to celebrate the same wonderful thing, and old friends...