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Equinox and Eggs

Written by Martha Harris on March 20, 2013. Posted in Farms, Food, Fun and Play, Regenerative Agriculture. No Comments on Equinox and Eggs

Happy Spring Equinox! At Earthaven we are singing and drumming at sunrise, and holding a children’s ritual and egg hunt. There are two equinoxes each year, when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the center of the Sun being in the same plane...

Living on the Edge

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 30, 2012. Posted in Articles, Farms, Hawk Hollar. No Comments on Living on the Edge

by Rae Jean Living in Hawk Holler neighborhood presents its own set of challenges. With only one house and two people living here so far, the main inhabitants are the four-legged, winged ones, and creepy crawly varieties. What to do when these creatures begin to multiply and take over the gardens,...

Top Ten Uses for a Gateway Sheep

Written by Eli on April 10, 2012. Posted in Farms, Gateway, Regenerative Agriculture. No Comments on Top Ten Uses for a Gateway Sheep

A new lamb with protective mom looking on. 1-Aesthetics: Let’s face it. Little baby lambs are cute. There is nothing quite like walking by a big beautiful pasture full of lush green grass and mama sheep with tiny new lambs. 2-Wool: The Gateway sheep are sheared twice a year, in the spring and fall,...

Spring Lambs at Gateway Farm

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 22, 2012. Posted in Farms, Gateway. No Comments on Spring Lambs at Gateway Farm

by Caroline Williford Springtime at Gateway Farm this year means our fifth lambing season is upon us! It is that magical season when you can walk into the field at dawn and find a just-born lamb, tottering up onto its delicate legs, and with great determination, stumbling towards the teat. Our sheep...

Calf Adoption – A Surprising Success by Liz Diaz

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on January 19, 2012. Posted in Farms, Regenerative Agriculture, Village Terraces. No Comments on Calf Adoption – A Surprising Success by Liz Diaz

LC (Large Cow) By Liz Diaz The harsh truth about milk is that it was made by a mother for a baby. We take the baby cows away early in order to get the milk and in exchange offer care and food in other forms. L.C. (Large Cow) has been bred 4 times, four years in a row, so that we may continue to have...

Coffee Hour Market

Written by Eli on October 2, 2011. Posted in Families and Children, Farms, Gardens, Regenerative Agriculture, Social Events, Village Economics. No Comments on Coffee Hour Market

Coffee Hour was started by Earthaven member Suchi in the summer of 2009. She was looking for a way to increase social opportunities and support the village economy. One picnic table outside the Trading Post held the coffee, tea, muffins, goods for trade–and all of us. Every Tuesday morning...

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 without...

Celebrating Imbolc

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 1, 2011. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Families and Children, Farms, Village Terraces. No Comments on Celebrating Imbolc

This year Imbolc, also known as Brigid’s Day, Candlemas, or Groundhog Day fell, on February 2nd. Group of celebrants at Imani Farm to bless the animals. Kaitlin hangs the Brigid cross on the Imani barn. Standing around after the blessing. The...

Local Food All Winter

Written by Eli on February 7, 2011. Posted in Celebrations, Farms, Gardens, Regenerative Agriculture, Village Terraces. No Comments on Local Food All Winter

Tomatoes! Garlic! Chicken Stock! And that’s just the beginning The author, Eli, here with cheese squash. At the Village Terraces common kitchen we haven’t stopped eating a diet based on local foods just because it’s February. In fact, we’re practically swimming in foods from our farm, Imani, other...

Abundance Abounds

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 2, 2010. Posted in Bellavia Gardens, Farms, Food, Gardens, Gateway. No Comments on Abundance Abounds

by Jonathan Swiftcreek 2010 was a year of delicious bounty. Natural factors such as the intensity of last winter along with the mildness and wetness of the following spring gave us fruit galore. In personal orchards, on farms, and in the wild, we had our pick of tasty fruits from May until even now...