Tag: spring

Winter Weather… or not!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 22, 2017. Posted in Articles, Dancing Shiva, Nature, Visitors. No Comments on Winter Weather… or not!

above: This year’s first snow, about 8” in January, was poetically beautiful and rather quickly gone. Monday it gets warm, up into the 70s, and by Wednesday it freezes after midnight. Again. Cold wind slices through the sun’s bright warmth and we lean out of its way; next, it’s gone and we’re pulling...

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...

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...

Spring wild flowers

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 4, 2009. Posted in Nature. No Comments on Spring wild flowers

by Rae Jean Spring of 2009 blessed us with many rain showers and a few wet snow flurries. These rain showers have been sorely missed the past few years by numerous beings, including the plants. After a few years of below normal precipitation, the woods at Earthaven came alive with an abundance of...

Useful Plants Abounding!

Written by Asha on April 23, 2006. Posted in Businesses, Food, Gardens. No Comments on Useful Plants Abounding!

by Arjuna da Silva Another sign of Spring at Earthaven is the expansion of Chuck Marsh’s Useful Plants Nursery from his homesite in Benchmark neighborhood. The nursery grows permaculture and edible landscaping plants that are well adapted to our mountains and the surrounding bioregions, with...

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...