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Goodbye to Brian Love

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 22, 2015. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Gateway, Members, Natural Building. No Comments on Goodbye to Brian Love

We are saddened to report that Earthaven Member Brian Love passed away in March of 2015. Brian contributed enormously to the agricultural and technological development of our community, contributed countless hours of creative design, planning, management and physical labor to land-based and building...

Spring!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 22, 2015. Posted in Farms, Gardens, Village Economics, Village Life. No Comments on 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...

$7,000 Grant to Offer Support to Local Organic Farmers

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 30, 2007. Posted in Businesses, Regenerative Agriculture. No Comments on $7,000 Grant to Offer Support to Local Organic Farmers

In January, 2007, Culture’s Edge, the nonprofit educational organization founded and staffed by Earthaven members, received its first grant: $7,000, from the North Carolina-based resourceful Communities Program.”We applied for the grant to help Culture’s Edge develop into a more...

Agriculture is Blooming!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 22, 2007. Posted in Farms, Forestry, Gateway, Regenerative Agriculture, Village Terraces. No Comments on Agriculture is Blooming!

In March, two lambs were born to Carla, the ewe who shares the Imani Field pasture with Bridget, the two-year-old Dexter cow, and flocks of Muscovy ducks and Rhode Island Red chickens. Imani Field managers Lee Warren and Mihaly Bartalos are leasing the quarter-acre field just downhill from their Village...

We Give Thanks for Juan Jo Qualia Farm

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on November 15, 2006. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Farms, Food. No Comments on We Give Thanks for Juan Jo Qualia Farm

by Ivy Lynn As we approach the holiday known as Thanksgiving, it seems fitting to acknowledge the gratefulness so many of us feel to have been eating vegetables grown by Juan Jo Qualia Farm in the Hut Hamlet this year. It is so important to the success of our ecovillage that we keep moving toward...

The time has finally come for Sweat Equity at Earthaven

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on May 22, 2006. Posted in Membership, Village Economics. No Comments on The time has finally come for Sweat Equity at Earthaven

By Ivy Lynn Over the years Earthaven has tried to prioritize agriculture, and to provide ways for skilled folks to be able to be at Earthaven even if they hadn’t amassed savings. First site option 3 was created. It allowed a few people to be here, but it just delayed their inevitable need to...

Season of New Beginnings

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 22, 2006. Posted in Cosmology, Farms, Nature. No Comments on Season of New Beginnings

by Arjuna da Silva In Oriental metaphoric tradition, Spring’s direction is East, its color yellow (or green-yellow), its quality innocence. The time of day is sunrise, and it corresponds to the Wood element. Its animal image is an eagle, flying high over the landscape. Spring is a time of many...

Sustainable Systems

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on January 8, 2006. Posted in Businesses, Gateway, Natural Building, Solar Power. No Comments on Sustainable Systems

Two of our most enterprising and innovative problem-solvers are Chris Farmer and Brian Love. These guys have been “wrapping their minds around” how to make building at Earthaven more efficient and sustainable. Some of their solutions are manifest in their truck, outfitted with everything...