Tag: Medicine Wheel

Build it, and They Will Come

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 20, 2020. Posted in Medicine Wheel, Permaculture, Village Economics. No Comments on Build it, and They Will Come

By Deborah Clark, Medicine Wheel Collective Greetings from Medicine Wheel Collective! As summer rolls into fall, and wave after wave of change sweeps the wider world, we find ourselves deep in a season of change at Medicine Wheel. As the pandemic prohibited us from hosting our normal summer...

Some changes are hard to believe…

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on June 22, 2018. Posted in Conscious Dying, Medicine Wheel, Permaculture, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Some changes are hard to believe…

Hard to believe this is our first newsletter since January, but it’s been busy and intense all around. Yes, another beloved senior member has taken her last journey—Patricia Allison left the planet (as far as we know) on March 19, after a relatively short bout with cancer. What we will do without...

New Micro-hydro Plant Amps Up – Adds Power for Two Neighborhoods

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 28, 2017. Posted in Articles, Bellavia Gardens, Hydro Power, Medicine Wheel. No Comments on New Micro-hydro Plant Amps Up – Adds Power for Two Neighborhoods

above: Spillway at the new micro-hydro installation. At long last, the second micro-hydro station at Earthaven is up and running, serving the delighted residents of Medicine Wheel and Bellavia Gardens neighborhoods. Through an ingenious design by neighbor Leon Birstein, each neighborhood is served...

Bellavia Gardens (among other neighborhoods) is Becoming a Co-op!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 22, 2016. Posted in Articles, Bellavia Gardens, Governance and Legal, Medicine Wheel, Neighborhoods. No Comments on Bellavia Gardens (among other neighborhoods) is Becoming a Co-op!

by Arjuna da Silva Some Earthaven neighborhoods are balancing collective and personal ownership issues by forming housing cooperatives. While used in other parts of the country, housing co-ops are new in our region and could be a reasonable model for other ecovillages, especially in rural areas. One...

Member Profile-River Otter

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 22, 2011. Posted in Community Service, Members. No Comments on Member Profile-River Otter

by Davene Wasser Before River Otter came to Earthaven, she was creating her own lifestyle in New Orleans. She was busy gardening, developing her healing skills, and giving tours of the city. Then Hurricane Katrina struck. “The storm was really a turning point for me,” she said. “I survived the storm...

New Members

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on May 2, 2007. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Medicine Wheel, Members. No Comments on New Members

Lyndon Felps became a full member at our Sunday, April 22 Council meeting. He celebrated his leap over the candle by leapfrogging over it, to much laughter and applause, then making lots of happy-sounding monkey screeches as we lifted him up and sang our welcome song. Lyndon was born and raised in...