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An aspiring ecovillage near Asheville, learning, living, and demonstrating a holistic, sustainable culture. www.earthaven.org. [email protected].
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Home of schoolofintegratedliving.org Founded in 1994, Earthaven is located on 329 acres in culturally rich, biologically diverse western North Carolina, about 45 minutes southeast of Asheville. We are dedicated to caring for people and the Earth by learning and demonstrating a holistic, sustainable culture. Earthaven Ecovillage is located on the traditional lands of the Catawba and Cherokee (Tsala

gi) people, who have stewarded this land since time immemorial. Living within our mission and vision statement is the goal of working “towards partnership culture, towards racial and gender equity, and against oppression in all its forms.” In support of this goal, and for our collective liberation, we are in the early stages of healing and being in right relationship with the local Catawba and Cherokee people. Varying between 2000 and 2600 feet in elevation, our forested mountain land consists of three converging valleys with abundant streams and springs, flood plains, bottom land, and steeper ridge slopes. In recent years, our community has consisted of about 75 adult residents and 25 children. We intend to become a village of at least 150 people on 56 homesites. As the village grows, we would like it to become more racially and culturally diverse. Our permaculture site plan includes residential neighborhoods and compact business sites, as well as areas suitable for farms, orchards, market gardens, and wetlands. Much of Earthaven is still under construction. Physical infrastructure so far includes roads, footpaths, bridges, campgrounds, ponds, constructed wetlands, off-grid power systems, farms and gardens, our Council Hall, a kitchen-dining room, many small dwellings, and a growing number of free-standing and commonwall homes. We govern ourselves with a consensus decision-making process and a Council and committee structure, with a Homeowners Association board. The HOA owns title to our common land, which we financed with private loans from members. We value sustainable ecological systems, permaculture design, elegant simplicity, right livelihood, and healthy social relations. We are spiritually diverse. We have both vegetarians and omnivores; some members raise livestock. Our small ecologically sound businesses include a permaculture plant nursery; carpentry and home construction; tool rental; solar system installation; plumbing and electrical installation; and consultants and courses in permaculture design, natural building, creating new ecovillages, herbal medicine, and women’s health. Mission and Vision
To create a village which is a living laboratory and educational seed bank for a sustainable human future. In the midst of planetary change the Earthaven experiment helps inform and inspire a global flowering of bio-regionally appropriate cultures. Goals:

Goal 1: To catalyze local and global change through learning, teaching, and networking. Goal 2: To shift from wasteful to regenerative use of resources. Goal 3: To develop and support a thriving local economy. Goal 4: To grow, raise, trade, and use our own food, fiber, medicines, and forestry products in an ecologically regenerative, bioregional culture and network. Goal 5: To tend the land in a way that optimizes for diverse ecosystem health, food and resource production, and soil and water quality. Goal 6: To practice fair, participatory, and effective self-governance. Goal 7: To encourage diverse spiritual practices and awareness of our interconnection with all beings. Goal 8: To work towards partnership culture, towards racial and gender equity, and against oppression in all its forms. [See our Statement of Transparency]

Goal 9: To nurture personal growth, interpersonal understanding, and mutual trust, as the foundation for a deeply connected human community. Goal 10: To practice healthy, holistic lifestyles that balance self-care with care for others. Goal 11: To create a culture of celebration, beauty, and pleasure. Goal 12: To attract, cultivate, and inspire residents and members whose presence contributes to vitality and functionality in our community. Goal 13: We recognize elders as the trunk and children as the fruit of our village tree, and collectively prioritize what all parts of our “tree” need to thrive.

06/09/2024

What are you reading on National Read a Book Day? We'd love to know!

While we do curate an online bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/earthaven ) that supports us as well as local bookstores, we highly recommend sourcing books:
1) From your local library!
2) From a used bookstore or order used online
3) From a brick and mortar independent store

We also recommend reading books! We are currently forming a community book club around . I'm super excited to have a copy of their newest work in my hands!

05/09/2024

Wanting an inside look at Earthaven Ecovillage? Join us for a Saturday tour!

Tours are a great entry point into learning the history, purpose, and development of Earthaven Ecovillage. These tours are designed to provide learners with a deeper understanding about living in community as well as the strategies and solutions possible for doing things another way.

In just a couple of hours, you’ll get a very informative introduction to this 30 year experimental journey of social, environmental and economic sustainability. You’ll not only learn of things you might want to do, but also what you might NOT want to do.

Get registered at: https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/in-person-ecovillage-tours/

05/09/2024

Have better meetings, get more done, be better organized, and create more harmony and connection in your group.
Sociocracy is an especially successful self-governance method highly recommended by Diana Leafe Christian. Learn the concepts and practice the skills in this lively, online workshop.

Part Two covers Selecting People for Roles, Role-Improvement Feedback, Consenting to Circle Members, Sociocracy’s Circle Structure.

Did you miss Part One? Don't worry, these classes are designed to be taken in any order and Part Two will be offered again in January!

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/sociocracy-for-communities-part-two/

05/09/2024

Join us this Saturday and embark on a flavorful journey of vegetable preservation and probiotics! Join us for a hands-on experience where you’ll learn the art and science of transforming fresh vegetables into delicious, gut-friendly delights. Explore the ancient craft of fermentation as we cover essential techniques, fermentation vessel selection, and the magic of cultivating beneficial microbes.

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/vegetable-fermentation/

04/09/2024

Join us this evening for a free live Q&A session with The Re-membering Retreat Facilitators. Here's a chance to ask questions and sample the unique gifts of these amazing women!

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/trr-live-questions-answers/

03/09/2024

While at the communities conference we were able to tour the the egalitarian Twin Oaks Community. There are so many ways of living together as an intentional community, but one of the universal truths of the movement is the mundane beauty of the everyday as we come together to create a life. Here are our favorite moments:

31/08/2024

Register today! Class begins tomorrow!

Learn practical, workable solutions to resolve or contain three types of group conflict that arise in community.

Join communities expert Diana Leafe Christian in this lively workshop for people in communities of all kinds who may have felt confused, baffled, or even hopeless about ongoing conflict in their group and seek grounded, field-tested solutions. There are things you can do!

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/working-effectively-with-community-conflict/

29/08/2024

Thinking about making serious changes in your life?

Wanting to see Earthaven without traveling right now?

Read the Earthaven website and want to ask questions of a real person?

There’s nothing like experiencing ecovillage life first hand, but taking a virtual tour of Earthaven is a close second!

The tour highlights ways in which Earthaven is striving to be a holistic, sustainable culture. The introductory overview tour examines the concept of sustainability at Earthaven through social, ecological, and economic lenses. Not only will you get a glimpse of what has worked through time, but also hear about what has been challenging.

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/virtual-tour-recording/

27/08/2024

Free Online and Live Q&A Session
Wednesday, September 4, 7-8 pm Eastern Time

The Re-membering Retreat is an intimate four-day journey in a supportive community container, exploring what it means to Belong: to Belong to Oneself, to Each Other, to a Lineage, to a Place, to this Life. This retreat is designed to enliven your sense of connection and provide you with time to access nature’s candid mirror that informs the truth of how you want to live.

Have questions? Register below for our upcoming Live Info Session to meet the retreat facilitators and ask any questions you have.

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/trr-live-questions-answers/

27/08/2024

Celebrating another incredible year of Compassion Camp! Each year is more collaborative and dynamic than the one before. Participant offerings were diverse with classes exploring all aspects and offshoots of nonviolent communication, as well as witnessing, social justice, foraging, hip hop dance, grief, death care and home burials, connection games, song, and more.

We left with hearts full of new connections, healing, grief release, and the joy of being alive and together in this beautiful mountain setting! Thank you, Steve, for dreaming the dream!

If you missed this year's camp, don't worry. Compassion Camp will return in 2025!

26/08/2024

These pictures tell the the story, or parts of it at least, of the laying out and burial of our most recent ancestor, Courtney Brooke Allen.

Since 2015, our community has experienced the losses of eight beloved community members. These deaths rocked our world and initiated us into taking more responsibility for this stage of life. Some deaths were unexpected and some were after a long illness. Regardless of the nature of the death, we, as a village rose to the occasion of tending this final passage into the mystery beyond our human form.

When this initiation was thrust upon us, we leaned on the experience of our mentors. We learned to grieve together from Sobonfu Somé, now an ancestor herself. We learned to care for the dying together, as well as prepare bodies and conduct home funerals and home burials from Caroline and Ruth with the Center for End of Life Transitions (CEOLT). With each death and through years of formal death care training with CEOLT, we created beautiful, reverent, and sacred life-death honoring spaces of healing, transformation, and transition.

We are now starting to share what we’ve experienced in our village, as well as our stories, lessons-learned, and ideas of how we can be seed-crystals for others looking to feel empowered to care for and honor their dead from their homes, with their family and friends.

In this half-day workshop, we will share an introduction to home funerals and home burials, including a visit to our village burial ground. Join us at Earthaven Ecovillage November 2. 1-4pm.

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/home-funerals-home-burials-intro/

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23/08/2024

"The community concept is based on the fact that each person is invaluable and truly irreplaceable. Each person has a gift to give, a contribution to make to the whole. The kind of gift a person brings, the kind of being a person is, is very unique to them and is valued by the community. The community is constantly affirming each person, and that constant affirmation is why people are always in the community. We sleep together. We work together. We walk together. When we are 'separate' we are vulnerable and are more likely to underestimate the self. This way of life may sound like an invasion of privacy to a lot of people, but not in my village. Being in community forces us to cultivate a deeper sense of intimacy with one another, to notice one another and value one another's gifts."
— Sobonfu Somé, Welcoming Spirit Home: Ancient African Teachings to Celebrate Children and Community

Feeling so much gratitude for Sobonfu and the teachings she brought to so many of us at Earthaven and the world. Her beautiful spirit and imparted wisdom is woven throughout the experiences we'll be sharing together at The Re-membering Retreat this September.

Please consider joining us as we re-member ourselves home September 26-29 Ecovillage, nestled in the beautiful and ancient Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina.

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/re-membering-retreat/

Feel like finances are a barrier? We are now offering self-selected scholarships for many of our programs. No proof of need, no questions asked. Just the clear intention of trust that registrants can assess whether the cost of a program is truly a barrier to attendance and the growth of self and community our programs seek to foster.

In addition, we offer partial scholarships (50% of the middle of the sliding scale) to black, indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) with financial needs who otherwise would not be able to afford to attend, even with the self-selected scholarships.

22/08/2024

🥕What do you do with the tiny one-bite carrots from the garden? I (Rachel) used to feed them to the goats, but this year I started fermenting them. They become teeny delicious kimchi carrot snacks! In addition to the basic salt brine and carrots, add scallions, garlic, sesame seeds, fish sauce, and gochugaru (Korean chili flakes) to taste.

🥕 If you are curious about the techniques and culture of home vegetable fermentation, sign up for our hands on class September 7! I'll be offering up what I've learned in over two decades of fermentation while we chop, salt, and pack the late summer harvest together!

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/vegetable-fermentation/

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22/08/2024

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Want to learn about our culture and values through the voices of members?

Sign up for our weekly newsletter! When you do, you’ll get an insider’s look at three unique homes in different neighborhoods of Earthaven.

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/newsletter-signup/

20/08/2024

Want to get a feel for an ecovillage?

Only have a few hours for a visit?

Join one of our tours! Tours are a great entry point into learning the history, purpose, and development of Earthaven Ecovillage. These tours are designed to provide learners with a deeper understanding about living in community as well as the strategies and solutions possible for doing things another way.

In just a couple of hours, you’ll get a very informative introduction to this 29+ year experimental journey of social, environmental and economic sustainability. You’ll not only learn of things you might want to do, but also what you might NOT want to do.

Would you like a tour but can’t make it to Earthaven? Check out our virtual tours. There’s even a recorded tour you can enjoy right now!

Would you like to stay overnight? The Earthaven campground is open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights for people taking tours. For more information about camping and to register for a tour with camping, see the Earthaven Campground page.

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/in-person-ecovillage-tours/

18/08/2024

We are already experiencing the social, economic and environmental impacts of the polycrisis. As a movement that is all about collaborating and coordinating together to make a difference in the world, we, , need to come together.

If we are to truly become pivot points upon which humanity can turn towards a better future, we need to go beyond our good work as individuals and stretch the boundaries of our own communities' grounds, creating more solidarity, alignment, and collective action among communities.
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Let’s build relationships across the network, explore common interests and needs, and consider proposals for how we can build more solidarity in our intentional communities movement and make more impact in the world. Join us at the Convergence of Intentional Communities (CIC) for a two-day meeting of community members.

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👉Register at the link in bio at .intentional.community or .

16/08/2024

Learn practical, workable solutions to resolve or contain three types of group conflict.

Join communities expert Diana Leafe Christian in this lively workshop for people in communities of all kinds who may have felt confused, baffled, or even hopeless about ongoing conflict in their group and seek grounded, field-tested solutions. There are things you can do!

Classes begin September 1!

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/working-effectively-with-community-conflict/

16/08/2024

Curious about community living and want to learn more about existing communities? Join us at the Communities Conference at Twin Oaks in Louisa, Virginia!

Each Labor Day weekend, the Twin Oaks Communities Conference brings together people seeking intentional communities with folks who are already living in them.

Join us from August 30- September 2, 2024 to network and learn about communities of all kinds — co-housing, co-ops, communes, ecovillages, and more — at one of the best-known intentional communities in North America.

There are performances, tours, presentations, curated workshops on intentional community living, great food, and more!

You’ll get something out of the conference whether you’re brand new to communities and cooperatives, or have been living and working in them for decades.

Register https://communitiesconference.org/

15/08/2024

I wish for you to be loved unconditionally through grief's loneliest moments, when you go into their room and lay on their bed, when you find a strand of their hair in an old brush, when you simply, purely miss them with every part of your being or when you find yourself listening for the tiny whisper of that irreplaceable voice and laush.

I wish for you strength to allow weakness, to reach out for the hand of another when you are vulnerable.

When the magnitude of the implacable loss has you in its grip, I wish for you the tenderest of grief's touches born of inimitable love.

In your darkest moments of the deepest pain and long-ing, I wish for you the kindness of others who will join you there, meet you in your sorrow, and remember with you.

I wish for you and for me, and for us all--to embody this compassion toward all others, toward all beings, and to unfurl our love for those who have died into the world so they will touch others through us.

-A Benediction by Joanne Cacciatore

Join us in explorations and transmutations of grief and love, longing and guidance, self and belonging, at the Re-membering Retreat this September.

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/re-membering-retreat/ .

14/08/2024

Each year, the Veggie Ladies farming team harvests over 300 heads of cabbage and processes them into 40ish gallons of kraut. Fermenting cabbage allows us to preserve the harvest and enjoy the fruits of our labors in a delicious probiotic food all year long!

Come get hands on fermenting a variety of vegetables with Rachel in September. She will demystify the fermentation process, teach how to use common household items instead of fancy fermentation equipment, and everyone will taste an array of yummy probiotic treats!

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/vegetable-fermentation/

12/08/2024

Time is short but it hasn't run out if you are wanting to attend Compassion Camp! Registration is still open until 5pm tomorrow.

Don't let financial limitations stop you because we have three open work trade positions! We need your help to make Compassion Camp a success!

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/compassion-camp/

11/08/2024

A little monologue on the rhythms of land-based life. It uploaded wonky, but seeing how it’s a night time video, hearing is more important than seeing.

10/08/2024

Compassion Camp is just around the corner on August 15-18! It is by far the largest event we host with just over one hundred participants gathering in the hub of the Village Center to jump into exploring community building, compassion, deep vulnerability, authenticity, and joy—, true presence in the spirit of compassionate consciousness that is the fruition of deep longing and commitment by longtime Earthaven member and NVC teacher, Steve Torma. It is a place where folks find such a sturdy thread of connection they carry it with them into the world and continue to weave. Compassion Camp is a network of overlapping communities of all kinds committed to loving, grieving, playing, and supporting one another. Using Open Space Technology, the gathering in co-created by attendees! Come get your community vibe on and frolic, sing, cry, celebrate, honor, create, and love with us at Compassion Camp!

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/compassion-camp/

Work trade positions are still available!

August 15-18, 2024

09/08/2024

Don't miss our natural building tour tomorrow, Saturday, August 10!

Earthaven is known for three decades of natural buildings of all kinds. From tiny houses to single family homes, large co-housing units and community spaces, we have a natural, sustainable buildings at every scale.

In the exclusive-access afternoon tour, you can step inside our naturally built homes. Meet the builders and owners, hear about their successes and learning experiences, and ask questions. Glean insights from our three decades of natural building to fulfill your own naturally built dreams!

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/natural-building-tour/

07/08/2024

Community level conflict is vastly different in nature from interpersonal conflict, and requires a different set of tools and skills to navigate productively. Earthaven member and communities scholar and consultant, Diana Leafe Christian, outlines 3 different categories of conflict and strategies for containing and resolving community level issues in her live online class Working Effectively With Community Conflict.

The connection between members is the heart and hearth of the community, where the flame of vision is held by all. Gain insight and skills in this 5 session workshop that nourish that locus of connectivity.

Classes start on September 1 and run five consecutive Sundays.

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/working-effectively-with-community-conflict/

06/08/2024

We've got not one, but TWO awesome tours for you this Saturday!

Ecovillage Tours are a great entry point into learning the history, purpose, and development of Earthaven Ecovillage. These tours are designed to provide a deeper understanding about living in community as well as the strategies and solutions possible for doing things another way. Our regular Saturday ecovillage tour features our naturally built Council hall, a walking tour of nearby neighborhoods, and our village center off-grid infrastructure. Tours run from 10-12:30.

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/in-person-ecovillage-tours/

Pack a lunch and join us for the afternoon Natural Building Tour, too!

Earthaven is known for three decades of natural buildings of all kinds. From tiny houses to single family homes, large co-housing units and community spaces, we have a natural, sustainable buildings at every scale. So we created an intimate tour focused solely on our natural buildings just for you!

In the exclusive-access afternoon tour, you can step inside our naturally built homes. Meet the builders and owners, hear about their successes and learning experiences, and ask questions. Glean insights from our three decades of natural building to fulfill your own naturally built dreams!

Of course, tours can be taken separately, there's no need to participate in both, but the ecovillage tour lays a informational foundation that illuminates the evolution of our community, its neighborhoods, and buildings.

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/natural-building-tour/

05/08/2024

“Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground” -Oscar Wilde

The talk or presence of grief makes many people uncomfortable. Grief isn't only sadness or sorrow. It is our expression of love for the things we have lost or never had, just as gratitude is our expression for the things we love and have.

While grief might seem inevitable, as if it will just naturally come with loss, it's not. It's a skill, and like any skill, we must practice it to get good at it. Grief is a way to love it all the more because it's ending or gone, not in spite of it.

Grief is our response to a broken bond of belonging.
And being with our grief allows for healing to happen, so tha
t we can re-enter our life with a renewed perspective and vitality.

The more we sanction and honor our grieving as loving, the more we allow our whole selves to belong.

At the Re-membering Retreat, September 26-29, where we will be courageously undertaking a journey inward, through the sacred terrain of our pain, our grief, and our longing, so that we can be living more fully with vitality, joy, peace, and purpose.

If you are curious about some of the territory we'll be getting into together at this retreat ahead of time, we highly recommend checking out Toko-pa Turner's book Belonging. You can find it and others in this stack in our Earthaven Ecovillage Bookshop! By buying through our bookshop, you support our village as well as local brick and mortar bookstores. So much goodness in one small transaction!

https://bookshop.org/shop/earthaven

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/re-membering-retreat/

04/08/2024

"We don’t engage in ceremony to be ‘good people’ or ‘make the world a better place’. We engage in ceremony out of the innate need to be whole within ourselves.
Humans need ceremony as much as we need air.
Without this relationship, that allows us to tie back into belonging in a kinesthetic, body-sense-making way, we not only abandon the Living Earth around us, but we are rendered equally unable to receive creation’s abiding love for us.
Ritual, ceremony and intentional practices are the umbilical cord that connects us to the Greater. In this new circle around the sun, I want to deepen my relationship to the seasons, the tides and moons, the elements and elementals that create life on Earth for creatures of all sizes and shapes, including humans..."
Petra Lentz-Snow

What ceremonies have you created in your life to connect deeper to place, season, and self?

What daily practice in your life can be ritualized with greater intention and purpose?

Come and explore ritual as a practice of deep connection and belonging with us at the Re-membering Retreat this September 26-29, as the wheel turns, the season changes, and we start looking inward.

https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/re-membering-retreat/

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On the rhythms of land-based life

A little monologue on the rhythms of land-based life. It uploaded wonky, but seeing how it’s a night time video, hearing is more important than seeing.

This is not an opportunity to miss! https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/earthaven-ecovillage-experience-week/ #ecovillage #offgridliving #intentionalliving #intentionalcommunity #earthavenecovillage

It’s been a long hot dry spell, weeks going by without a drop of rain. All rejoiced in this afternoon thunderstorm! #gratitude #skywater #thunderstorms #permaculture #gardening #abundance #ecovillages #earthavenecovillage

Interdependence!!! Homesteading vs Community Self-reliance vs Interdependent Isolation vs Resilience ✨One person, one nuclear family, one farm cannot be every thread in the weave or every string in the web. An individual thread is fragile, while the cloth can bear much more weight and wear and tear.✨What are we on about?Come and find out at Earthaven Ecovillage Experience Week! See the threads that bind us into the interdependent and resilient cloth of community from the inside!✨See the link in our bio! #community #communitylife #communityliving #intentionalcommunity #intentionalliving #rurallife #ecovillages #offgridliving #sustainability #homesteading #homesteadlife #regenerativeculture #earthavenecovillage

The Re-membering Retreat is an intimate four-day journey in a supportive community container, exploring what it means to Belong: to Belong to Oneself, to Each Other, to a Lineage, to a Place, to this Life. This retreat is designed to enliven your sense of connection and provide you with time to access nature’s candid mirror that informs the truth of how you want to live. Visit https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/re-membering-retreat/ #belong #belonging #remembering #rememberingourselveshome #releasing #griefritual #soulpath #community #innerecology #intentionalcommunity #ecovillage #cultivatingcommunity #remember #itsaninsidejob #regenerativeculture #socialpermaculture #natureconnection #earthavenecovillage

Adorable new chicks for the laying flock, as well as a new project: ducks for the orchard! #smallfarms #communityfarm #regenerativefarming #homesteadlife #chicks #ducklings #landbased #ecovillage #earthavenecovillage #🐥

Farmer Elisa moving Annie and Dilly Bean onto fresh pasture. If you are interested in learning more about seizing the means of food production, raising your own cows, pasture management, and soil science, join us for our fall internship! With educational track options for everyone, for six weeks you can live and work with us here in the village and learn about all things, food production and the off grid infrastructure that supports it, as well as dip your toe into the world of community living. Schoolofintegratedliving.org/earthaven-internship-program/ #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #cows #dairyfarming #smallfarmers #gardening #homesteading #homesteadingskills #offgrid #community #outdooreducation #servicelearning #gapyearlife #earthavenecovillage #sunnydays

What do past participants say about Reaching Nature Connection? 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱The Reaching Nature Connection Conference at Earthaven was a soul-nourishing experience. I have been a nature and play-based early childhood teacher for 20 years, and I left this gathering full of inspiration, new questions about my work, a deeper understanding of what can inform it, and experiences of thrill, joy, and community. I will be looking for more opportunities to engage in these trainings!🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱 Visit schoolofintegratedliving.org/reaching-nature-connection/ #forestschool #forestkindergarten #outdoorclassroom #getthekidsoutside #playbasedlearning #lastchildinthewoods #homeschooling #caregivers #earlychildhood #earlychildhoodeducation #community #natureconnection #earthavenecovillage

Get out of digital space and into your body at Earthaven Ecovillage Experience Weekend! Our mountain valley doesn’t get cell service, so you can feel supported in being here and now. 🌱 Do you want to learn skills, immerse yourself in nature, and get to know the Earthaven community? An Experience Weekend will give you an inside look at the radical social and ecological experimentation happening in this land-based community, all while eating some scrumptious, homegrown meals! 🌱 Want more? You can stick around for Earthaven Action Week the following week and experience the everyday rhythm of life and work at EH. This hands-on, service-based program has you working side-by-side with residents, making meaningful contributions to life here, while exploring EH‘s neighborhoods. 🌱 Learn more at schoolofintegratedliving.org/earthaven-ecovillage-experience-weekend/ 🌱 Partial scholarships available for BIPOC folks. 🌱 Come expand your ideas of sustainable, ecologically-sound, off-grid living. Welcome to Another Way. #offgridliving #offgridcommunity #somaticliving #screenfree #sustainableliving #permaculture #permaculturecommunity #landbasedlearning #servicelearning #buildingcommunity #interdependence

✨Gain skills for drawing on source and spirit to feel more connected and resources in your life. ✨Join us in April for Extraordinary Realities, an experiential introduction to the shamanic practices of compassionate spirit relationship, communication, healing, and divination. ✨Visit https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/extraordinary-realities/ to learn more and register! #shamanism #shamanicjourney #shamanichealing #shamanicpractitioner #vibrations #energies #spirit #source #sourceenergy #plantspirit #spiritmessage #meditation #selfhealing

Making biochar is an excellent addition to the soil food web of your garden. Soil carbon provides a source of nutrients through mineralisation, helps to aggregate soil particles (structure) to provide resilience to physical degradation, increases microbial activity, increases water storage and availability to plants, and protects soil from erosion. We had an excellent safe and rainy day for burning some brush piles recently. We started with a pile 8 feet in diameter and about the same height. It yielded about 18 gallons of char. Before you burn, always check the local fire department's recommendations for open fire, and make sure to clear and soak the area before you burn. It is best to burn just after or during a soaking rain. #biochar #charcoal #soilcarbon #soil #soilfertility #soilscience #soilfoodweb #soilhealth #soilislife #tending #gardening #permaculture #womenfarmers

Go see Lyndon at Organic Growers School this weekend for high quality food plants for your garden, farm, or food forest! #earthavenecovillage #organicgrowersschool #usefulplantsnursery #foodforest #forestgarden #edibleplants #fruittree #permaculture #gardening #growyourownfood

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The boys wanted us to let you know that it's National Pig Day today! These gentlemen are Kune Kune and American Guinea Hog crosses. Even the boars are gentle and sweet and make a good first time pig project for the family or homestead! Many folks even keep Kune Kunes as pets! If you are interested in learning more about animal integrated agriculture and looking for an immersive service learning experience, check out our 2024 Earthaven Internship Program: https://buff.ly/3Pi7gqH #earthavenecovillage #kunekune #americanguineahog #pigs #homesteading #growyourownfood #regenerativeagriculture #farming #smallfarms #womenfarmers

Visit the Earthaven Ecovillage bookshop for a curated selection of books that inform the culture we are striving to create here! https://bookshop.org/shop/earthaven Bonus: Local bookshops benefit from your purchase! #earthavenecovillage #bookshop

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Living in community and struggling with conflict? Thinking about starting a community or cohousing project and want to get ahead of the game? Take advantage of Diana Leafe Christian's year of studying, visiting, living in, and consulting with communities around the world! Her online workshop starts February 1, on consecutive Thursdays 7-9pm. Visit our website to register! https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/working-effectively-with-community-conflict/ #intentionalcommunity #intentionalcommunitymovement #intentionalcommunitylife #cohousing #cohousingcommunity #conflictresolution

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This summer solstice we started our ceremonial fire with a we-drill. The joy of successfully making a fire in a group was inspiring, especially for those who might never approach making a friction fire on their own. There were so many different roles in making this fire. The experience included a diverse cross-section of all ages and levels of strength of our community. This is an example of the social glue at Earthaven. For a deeper discussion of the social glue at Earthaven, check out the People Care online course at https://buff.ly/3uOepC3

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Rachel talks about the plant walks that we go on during our Earthaven Ecovillage Experience Weekend! It's not too late to join - registration ends TONIGHT! Experience Weekend starts THURSDAY. Link here to join: https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/earthaven-ecovillage-experience-weekend/

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Hear from Rachel about our plant walks that we take participants on during our Earthaven Ecovillage Experience Weekend. Join us THIS THURSDAY, May 25th for our next upcoming weekend. Link to learn more here: https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/earthaven-ecovillage-experience-weekend/

LAST CHANCE to register for our Reaching Nature Connection Conference: Fields of Play East Coast Outdoor Conference this April 1-2, 2023! Join us at Earthaven, as we travel together through the stages of play, deepening our understanding of why and how we humans play, when we’re young and when we’re not. Deepen your capacity for mentoring children and explore our role in supporting, nourishing, and protecting healthy play, a state of kinship and reciprocity. With this year’s theme, Fields of Play, presenters Lia Grippo and Sharon Buczaczer will immerse participants in deep learning, joyful singing and the freedom of play in the spirit of the young child and young at heart. This annual conference is a program of The Academy of Forest Kindergarten Teachers, co-sponsored by SOIL. Registration closes WEDNESDAY! Join now! https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/reaching-nature-connection/

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