Tag: Yellowroot Farm

Young Family, Farm Family

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 5, 2016. Posted in Families and Children, Farms, Members, Persimmon Grove. No Comments on Young Family, Farm Family

Editor’s note: Andy Bosley and Julie McMahan have operated Yellowroot Farm at Earthaven continuously for ten years. During that time, they managed to incorporate the startup of three ag fields. The Hut Hamlet field was first leased in ’05, and the Horn of Plenty near the campground in about ’08. Persimmon...

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...

Becoming a Father

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on February 4, 2012. Posted in Families and Children, Members. No Comments on Becoming a Father

by Andy Bosley The tasks are many, and the time is scant. The urge to fit it all in flows hard against the need to develop rhythms with the new child. The ideal vision is just over the edge, glimpsed for moments, bringing that deep sense of place, at other times seeming so distant that it causes...

Abundance Abounds

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 2, 2010. Posted in Bellavia Gardens, Farms, Food, Gardens, Gateway. No Comments on Abundance Abounds

by Jonathan Swiftcreek 2010 was a year of delicious bounty. Natural factors such as the intensity of last winter along with the mildness and wetness of the following spring gave us fruit galore. In personal orchards, on farms, and in the wild, we had our pick of tasty fruits from May until even now...

News Notes – early Spring 2010

Written by Debbie on March 1, 2010. Posted in Businesses, Neighborhoods, Village Life. No Comments on News Notes – early Spring 2010

Greetings from Earthaven Ecovillage! We’re enjoying the first few days of spring – with daffodils blooming and long strings of toad eggs in the ponds. Marie Reilly became a full member on February 28. Current provisional members Tanya Carwyn and Troy Swift will soon have company...

News Notes – Winter 2009

Written by Debbie on November 28, 2009. Posted in Businesses, Social Events, Village Life. No Comments on News Notes – Winter 2009

Greetings from Earthaven Ecovillage! All of the leaves are off the trees and we just had our first really frosty morning – unusually late for our area! In October we had a wonderful Village Harvest Festival, featuring local crafts and food, tours and musicians. The weather was beautiful...

Forest children seedlings

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 24, 2009. Posted in Businesses, Families and Children, Village School for Kids. No Comments on Forest children seedlings

by Tanya Carwyn The Seedlings Program is the early childhood part of the Forest Children Parents’ Cooperative. It is inspired by Waldorf education, a way of teaching and being with children devised by turn-of-the-last-century scientist and philosopher Rudolf Steiner (who is also the father of...

News Notes – Spring 2008

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 22, 2008. Posted in Village Life. No Comments on News Notes – Spring 2008

by Suchi and Arjuna Sorry to our subscribers for the long gap between this and our last newsletter. Much has been going on at Earthaven despite our silence! Some of these are covered in this newsletter; another issue is planned for release in about six weeks. If you want to continue to be...

Yellowroot CSA Begins Second Year

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 2, 2007. Posted in Farms, Food. No Comments on Yellowroot CSA Begins Second Year

By Andy Bosley and Julie McMahan This is the second year of operation for “Yellowroot Farm,” the half-acre Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm we operate at Earthaven. This year we have 20 shares, five more than last year. We plan to grow food for the Hut Hamlet Kitchen and its...

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...