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BEST SELLING PRODUCTS
You will be required to participate in the heating rotation for the neighborhood. All of Lee’s apartments generally share a day per week in the winter for operating the heating system. Hummingbird is twice the size of either Goddess or Dragon so on a monthly basis Hummingbird would take two days a month to 1 day a month each by Dragon and Goddess. If there are no tenants in certain units, the other unit holders would cover those days.
Also, this decision was passed by our Council process on 8/14/22. It is the new official policy. “Only Provisional Members, Full Members, and HOA full members are welcome to apply to have a pet dog at EH. This excludes visitors, STNRs, and LTNRs from having a pet dog.”
You are now a resident of a collective. Your attention and awareness are important aspects of that that you’re requested/required to develop. Please be mindful of the following:
We have the following expectations around children at VT.
While we don’t have official quiet hours at VT, we tend to follow land-based routines of sleeping in the night and working in the day. Please be mindful of noise between 10pm and 8am.
Using pee jars in your apartments makes lots of sense for lots of reasons. Here are some guidelines:
You will be assigned space in a chest FRIDGE (we convert chest freezers to fridges) and likely be sharing that with one or more people.
Please don’t expect to get freezer space as the freezer is old and won’t be replaced. That being said, ONE THIRD of the freezer by the common kitchen (on the North Deck) is available for use by Lee’s tenants as long as it’s still functioning. Please figure out how you will share this space. More freezer space can be rented from Leon and Geni. Ask around.
Here are some thoughts that might help guide you in your entry:
Hopeful phase: You’re here because you’ve projected onto this project the idea that you’ll have a better life and you’ll meet some significant needs. Projections is what humans do. This is the nature of incarnation. You will likely meet many of those needs you were hoping to meet. And hopefully you will have a honeymoon in the process.
Sobering phase: You will also go through a disillusionment phase where things you were hoping for will not come to fruition. It may be disappointing and painful to realize the some of the things you hoped were true are not.
Intimacy phase: If you end up staying in community and are able to work through the sobering and disillusionment phase, it will give way to real intimacy. A deeper truth, a deeper understanding, a real sense of connection. With yourself. With this place. With this project. With the people. A sense of realness and depth and dynamism will take emerge. Regardless of whether you stay and make this your home you will have a sense of a more deeply embedded life.
Let’s discuss:
Please see the mission and goals of Earthaven Ecovillage here.
In order to help you understand and integrate the 13 areas of importance at Earthaven Ecovillage, represented by the 13 goals, here are some statements to review. Please frame these in terms of questions to ask yourself. This will help you and others determine how aligned you are with the strategic direction of the community.
As you deepen your relationship to these critical core values of the village, specifically in the context of your areas of strengths and interest, this can be supportive of your Earthaven journey and determination if this Ecovillage is a fit for you.
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 optimized 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 practice 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
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 the parts of our “tree” need to thrive
Please read all of the below linked pages and fill out the application on the Next Steps page.