What does the creation of true wealth look like?
Here are a few snippets of what we think it looks like around the village!
(Photos from before and during COVID)
Why I Bother to Farm at Earthaven, Part Two: A Collaborative Farming Manifesto
Written by: by Zev Friedman
Now in its 24th year, I believe that Earthaven is in a stage of cultural succession in which collaborative farming has more of a role to play than in the early years. The pioneer effort of Earthaven’s first two decades created both the literal and...
Pioneering and Succession
Written by: Zev Friedman
“The pioneer effort that founded Earthaven created both literal and
cultural topsoil, which is now capable of supporting not only plants
but the human systems it takes to
successfully grow food.”
I’ve heard early members of Earthaven frequently remark that this ecovillage...
Lush and Ripe
Celebrating elderberry season!
Walking in more than one Earthaven neighborhood in July, you would have enjoyed the dark, luminous clusters of elderberry hanging from both the older, taller trees and ones just beginning to bear. And while folks do harvest some of the white flower clusters earlier...
Spring!
Spring came early with intimations of summer, then backed off for a few freezing nights and turned around for a balmy re-entrance. Buds already opening on fruit and berry branches may not all recover, but many were slow bloomers and will make it.
NikiAnne was out touring when Mana’s mom Dorien...
‘Tis the Season of the Students
by NikiAnne Feinberg
Several weekends in a row this past April, we had the pleasure of hosting college groups from the College of Charleston, Furman University, and Elon University.
We dig bamboo, but how many shoots can we eat?! Bamboo needs maintenance to keep it from overextending its boundaries....
Garlic Plantin’ Time at VT
On a crisp fall morning last Saturday, we planted our neighborhood garlic. It’s one of our favorite garden crops because we all eat garlic, it’s easy to plant and harvest with a group, and we can watch it grow in the early spring before planting our other spring crops.
The 3 Sisters and Friends
Asters and Fungi
Full Circle Farm – a neighbors corn drying.
Corn drying before the rains came.
late blooming datura sub species
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...
Late Summer Abundance
Lammas, the traditional day to celebrate the bounties of the harvest season, falls at the beginning of August. It’s an appropriate time, when the earth’s growth gives forth her gifts.
Medicine Wheel Squash Flowers
Luscious Raspberries from the...