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Children are the Fruit

Written by Jill Lacasse on June 28, 2022. Posted in Families and Children, Uncategorized, Village School for Kids. No Comments on Children are the Fruit

When I was in my teenage years, I lived across the street from a playground and baseball park. I would walk almost every day around the park with my two dogs, and admire the beauty of the trees flourishing there — especially one weeping willow tree. She was nestled into her own little alcove among the...

Prevent Birds from Striking Windows – Update

Written by Martha Harris on June 8, 2021. Posted in Gardens, Nature, Uncategorized. No Comments on Prevent Birds from Striking Windows – Update

We love our birds here at Earthaven Ecovillage. It can be heartbreaking when one crashes into the window because it sees the sky reflected there. Up to one billion birds die each year as a result of window collisions in the United States alone. Since our earlier post, we have discovered several...

Grating Black Turmeric from our neighbors at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on April 27, 2021. Posted in Uncategorized. No Comments on Grating Black Turmeric from our neighbors at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcript from Video: Courtney Brooke: Good morning, Zev. Zev: Good morning. Courtney Brooke: What are you doing? Zev: I am grating this incredible black turmeric grown by Leon with his mad, passionate devotion to beautiful food and medicine plants at Full Circle Far next to Earthaven Ecovillage. Courtney...

Loveletter Corner

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on February 14, 2015. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Medicine Wheel, Uncategorized. No Comments on Loveletter Corner

Georgia Papadakis spent a few months with the Medicine Wheel Collective last year and sent this sweet note from her travels… Hey there, People of Earthaven, This is my belated goodbye. Dominator culture maintains that “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” or that personal growth stems most...

From Oneness to Diversity

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on January 30, 2015. Posted in Ecological Design, Uncategorized. No Comments on From Oneness to Diversity

by Arjuna da Silva The first structure Earthaveners built together, called the Pavilion, was intended as a kitchen. Foreshadowing the design of the Council Hall, it was a yurt with round, straight walls and an experimental ferro-cement roof. Bamboo harvested from a Weaverville roadside made the purlins,...

Firekeeping for the Commons

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 11, 2014. Posted in Articles, Spirit and Culture, Uncategorized. No Comments on Firekeeping for the Commons

by Kimchi Rylander As Firekeeper (aka President) of Earthaven for 2014, I am excited to announce that we will be turning 20 years old this year! Earthaven has been an intentional community seed bed all these years, attracting villagers to settle and explore what it means to take responsibility...

Throw it “Away” – A De-Salvage Operation at Salvation Alley

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 7, 2014. Posted in Articles, Community Service, Natural Building, Uncategorized. No Comments on Throw it “Away” – A De-Salvage Operation at Salvation Alley

by Andy Bosley This March, Earthaven residents participated in a “Spring Cleaning” event, sorting through a ton of stuff (kept because someone once thought each item would someday be “useful)” and hauling much of it “away” in a trailer of metal and a couple of dumpsters of trash. Items from...

Springtime Sentiments

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 2, 2014. Posted in Nature, Uncategorized. No Comments on Springtime Sentiments

Hepatica Trillium On a recent walk through the burgeoning Springtime woods, Suchi took these pictures to refresh those of us who are desk-bound, and to charm you who’ve not visited in a while. “A deliciously long spring began with Bloodroot blossoming, continued with Trillium coming on, Trout...

Thank you Alex & Violetta

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on February 1, 2014. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Conscious Relating, Uncategorized. No Comments on Thank you Alex & Violetta

Last month our friends and favorite facilitators Violetta Ilkiw and Alex Bulkin left after a 10-month internship as our bi-monthly weekend “group conflict and organizational change” cross-mentors. We’re “cross-mentors” because we were mentoring them in the challenges of doing their humble work in...

Slowing Down for Turtles

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on August 20, 2013. Posted in Articles, Nature, Uncategorized. No Comments on Slowing Down for Turtles

by Marjorie Vestal While bicycling to the Zendo for early morning sitting practice, I encountered a box turtle on the trunk road in my neighborhood. Stopping to get a closer look, I became enchanted with the rugged, bearded old critter. I thought it would make a good totem animal for Earthaven, symbolizing...