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ClubCar: Our golf cart with a solar panel on top at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on . Posted in Renewable Energy, Solar Power, Village Life. No Comments on ClubCar: Our golf cart with a solar panel on top at Earthaven Ecovillage

  Transcript from video: Courtney Brooke: Here’s our new ride, the club car. It’s a golf cart for cruising around Earthaven, but the news about it is that it’s got a solar panel on top so you can charge it with electricity.   But that’s pretty challenging to do when...

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Moving the Mobile Coops for Pastured Chickens with Andy at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on . Posted in Farms, Village Life. No Comments on Moving the Mobile Coops for Pastured Chickens with Andy at Earthaven Ecovillage

Courtney Brooke: Hey Andy! Andy: Hey! Courtney Brooke: What are you doing? Andy: Well I’m moving the chickens to a fresh spot. Courtney Brooke: Oh; good morning chickens! Well, that’s quite a lot of chickens. How many chickens is that? Andy: Well, we started with a little over a...

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Robbie Wheelock reflecting on Earthaven Ecovillage Experience Week

Written by Lee Warren on . Posted in Earthaven Education, In-Person Events, People Care, Permaculture. No Comments on Robbie Wheelock reflecting on Earthaven Ecovillage Experience Week

(Transcript from video) Hey there. I’m Robbie Wheelock. And I was a participant of the Earthaven Experience Week. Being from Asheville, and being from school at the time, that was something that I felt would be a good supplement to the education I was receiving. There was a lot of hard...

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Living Fences & Intergenerational Pruning at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on . Posted in Gardens, Permaculture, Village Life. No Comments on Living Fences & Intergenerational Pruning at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcript from video: Courtney: What are y’all doing? Zev: Stone’s giving me a sawdust snack. Pruning. Courtney: What kind of tree is that? Stone: Ash. Ah it doesn’t taste like ash though. Courtney: Ash. Zev: And we’ve been pruning black locusts and mulberries and this...

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Furniture Building Advice & Mentoring at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on . Posted in Businesses, Village Life. No Comments on Furniture Building Advice & Mentoring at Earthaven Ecovillage

(Transcript from video) Paul: And it comes all the way from here to here.  It’s that one that that makes this be flat. And then you build from that. The pieces that are also fastened but come to where the leg is going to be. You know where… Gabriel: And those, they just they just...

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NikiAnne in the Ox Eye Daisy Patch at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Lee Warren on . Posted in Gardens, Village Life. No Comments on NikiAnne in the Ox Eye Daisy Patch at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcription: NikiAnne: So, this green friend was introduced to me by my friend, Dimitri. It is ox eye daisy. It grows so well, it reseeds itself and it’s just coming up. It’s spring and so it’s going to get a little fuller and eventually bloom into what are called ox eye...

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NikiAnne and the Firewood Stack at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Lee Warren on . Posted in Heat, Village Life. No Comments on NikiAnne and the Firewood Stack at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcription from video: NikiAnne: Oh my gosh, I love my firewood. Thanks to my partner Chris Farmer who built this! This is under a plastic like greenhouse roofing corrugated that allows a lot of sun to get through. Keeps it dry and we have cut it to really short lengths so that it fits in our...

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