Tag: Berries

Rainy Day Commute at Earthaven Ecovillage with Courtney Brooke

Written by Courtney Brooke on March 19, 2021. Posted in Nature, Village Life. No Comments on Rainy Day Commute at Earthaven Ecovillage with Courtney Brooke

(Transcript) Courtney Brooke: One of the things I most love about living at Earthhaven is my commute to work a lot of times is you know a five-minute walk or a three minute walk. Today it happens to be a three-minute walk in the rain. Which is so nice and one of the other things that I love so much...

Harvest Time Photo Tour

Written by Lee Warren on August 26, 2013. Posted in Regenerative Agriculture. 3 Comments on Harvest Time Photo Tour

August is a busy harvest month at Earthaven. Abundance (and labor) abounds. Extra summer cabbage turns into lots of saurkraut. Elderberries...

Autumn forest beauty as we took our forest inventory at Earthaven

Doing the Forest Inventory, by Alice Henry

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on January 12, 2012. Posted in Community Service, Forestry, Nature. No Comments on Doing the Forest Inventory, by Alice Henry

It’s a dance of sorts. It starts in a circle, holding hands. There’s a break, for talking. Then there are the reels through the woods, discovering the way the forest grows. It’s also a future legend that starts like this. Once upon a time Earthaven hired a forester, Shawn Swartz (who used to be a...

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...

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...

3 Women And a Sugar Baby

Written by Lee Warren on September 2, 2010. Posted in Celebrations, Gardens, Regenerative Agriculture, Village Terraces. No Comments on 3 Women And a Sugar Baby

And Other Village Terraces Cohousing Neighborhood News Watermelon Love Jenna, Marie, and Liz enjoy Sugar Baby Watermelon from the Village Terraces Cohousing Neighborhood garden. “I never even liked watermelon before now” says Liz Diaz. Small and sweet with a green rind, red flesh, and...

Adventures in Blackberry Abundance

Written by Lee Warren on August 1, 2010. Posted in Regenerative Agriculture. No Comments on Adventures in Blackberry Abundance

Seems like everything comes at once this time of year. And as much as we ask for abundance, sometimes we forget how much it takes to manage it when it gets here. A friend of Earthaven has a beautiful blackberry farm near to us in Old Fort. Row after row are elegantly trellised and dripping with fruit....