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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...

News Notes – Autumn 2009

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 30, 2009. Posted in Celebrations, Village Life. No Comments on News Notes – Autumn 2009

Earthaven celebrated our 15th anniversary on September 11. See the article in this newsletter for information on the celebration. Marie Reilly jumped the candle to become a new provisional member. The third bridge over the stream crossing near the Hut Hamlet is finished! In the photo, Founding Day...

News notes – Summer 2009

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on July 20, 2009. Posted in Conscious Relating, Village Economics, Village Life. No Comments on News notes – Summer 2009

We had a wonderful forum workshop with Achim and Ina from ZEGG community in Germany. We’ve been using the forum process for a few years and it was great to have some refresher training! Suchi, Kimchi, and Gaspar have been facilitating forum at Earthaven for the past couple years. Arjuna, Debbie,...

News notes – Spring 2009

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 22, 2009. Posted in Celebrations, Farms, Membership, Village Life. No Comments on News notes – Spring 2009

It’s been nearly a year since our last newsletter. Much has been going on at Earthaven despite our silence! Bruce, Rudy, Alice, Eva, Julie, Johnny, and Mana have become full members! Culture’s Edge hosted a wonderful Village Harvest Festival last fall and are looking forward to the second...

Trading Post Re-opens

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 10, 2008. Posted in Community Service, Hickory Knob, Village Life. No Comments on Trading Post Re-opens

by Sue and Suchi Finally, an Earthaven office! And, in addition, an internet and coffee spot with goods from our neighbors, a warm place filled with information and other enticements. This comforting venue now exists and just the thought of it brings some kind of shift in our collective energy,...

News Notes – Spring 2008

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 22, 2008. Posted in Village Life. No Comments on News Notes – Spring 2008

by Suchi and Arjuna Sorry to our subscribers for the long gap between this and our last newsletter. Much has been going on at Earthaven despite our silence! Some of these are covered in this newsletter; another issue is planned for release in about six weeks. If you want to continue to be...

What The Children Did During the Summer

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 25, 2006. Posted in Families and Children, Village Life. No Comments on What The Children Did During the Summer

by Arjuna da Silva During the school year, kids who attend the Forest Children’s Program can be seen scampering across the Village Green at least three days a week, while several, mostly older kids commute to schools in Black Mountain or to their other parent’s locale in Asheville. Back...

News from Council Hall

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 6, 2006. Posted in Community Service, Natural Building, Village Economics, Village Life. No Comments on News from Council Hall

By Ivy Lynn In our Council Hall, the new and gorgeous, luminescent granite and marble mosaic floor is finally finished! The design for the floor was created by Jessica Evans and provided an opportunity for Earthaven to support sweat equity by approval of Jessica’s proposal to barter half her...

Building progress at Earthaven

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on January 2, 2006. Posted in Food, Natural Building, Persimmon Grove, Village Life. No Comments on Building progress at Earthaven

Folks often wonder why Earthaven members haven’t yet made significant inroads into food production for ourselves. Sure, some ardent and enthusiastic gardeners have created small kitchen gardens, there are perennials beginning to reach peak performance (it was a bumper year for blueberries!),...