Leela House was constructed by the Natural Building School. Rounded rooms and curves are one of the joys of natural building with earth and straw. The cob dining alcove has a built-in cob bench on the inside, and a conical red roof outside. The north wall of the house is straw bale.
Council Hall
Our Council Hall is a 13-sided timber-framed structure with straw bale, straw-clay, and cob walls; earth-plastered interior and exterior wall surfaces; and a hardwood floor with poplar and walnut planks from the land and radiant heating.
Bellavia Office
Monique and JuanPablo Office is a small timber-framed structure with clay-straw walls, earth-plastered interior and exterior surfaces, an earthen and slate floor, and a living roof.
Timber Frames
The three-story, 4,300 sq. ft. Village Terraces (above) and the two-story White Owl are both timber-framed structures with earth-plastered exterior walls and blown-in cellulose insulation.
Natural Building School
The Natural Building School has used earth, sand, stone, straw and wood to build ecologically-sound, aesthetically pleasing cob, clay straw, wattle and daub and straw bale structures. Upcoming projects include apprenticeships for the completion of the Village Arts Studio. We look forward to sharing the liberating power of natural building with you!
Micro Hut and Tribal Condo
Both the Tribal Condo and the Micro Hut are timber-framed structures with lumber from the land and earth-plastered interior and exterior surfaces. Both have walls that combine thermal mass and insulation: the Tribal Condo has clay-straw walls, and the Micro Hut has chip-slip walls (wood chips and clay slurry tamped into wall forms).
Medicine Wheel House
The “Pallet Palace,” a 3½ story multi-family home offering inexpensive cooperative living, is a stud-framed building made of used plywood from recycled cranberry juice pallets, recycled bridge spans, recycled hardwood floors, blown-in cellulose insulation, and poplar clapboard from trees milled on the land.
Stones’ Earthship
The Stones’ Earthship is a two-bedroom home that is bermed into the south side of a hill, and has walls of recycled tires filled with rammed earth. One of two roofwater catchment tanks is shown here.
Julie and Andy’s House
Julie and Andy’s House, a two-story, 3-bedroom home for a family of four, has let-in diagonal bracing (not plywood) for shear strength in exterior walls, blown-in cellulose insulation, recycled plywood subflooring, and an earth-plastered exterior.
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Upcoming Events
Virtual Earthaven Tour
There’s nothing like experiencing ecovillage life first hand, but taking a virtual tour of Earthaven is a close second!
The tour highlights ways in which Earthaven is striving to be a holistic, sustainable culture. The introductory overview tour examines the concept of sustainability at Earthaven through social, ecological, and economic lenses. Not only will you get a glimpse of what has worked through time, but also hear about what has been challenging. And you will have a chance to ask questions!
Earthaven Ecovillage Experience Weekend
Do you want to learn skills, gain insights and get to know the Earthaven community? Get an inside look at the radical social and ecological experimentation that has taken place in this land-based community for over 27 years.
Compassion Camp
Our annual event focused on Nonviolent Communication, featuring classes and experiential learning. An experience designed to foster compassion and connection in our hearts, communities and world, and to spread the seeds of justice and love.
Earthaven Ecovillage Experience Week
Join the homesteads, farms, and businesses of Earthaven Ecovillage for a hands-on, skill-building immersion in sustainable and climate-resilient community life. A residential service learning immersion in our unique community laboratory.