Earthaven Ecovillage Podcast

Earthaven Ecovillage
Earthaven Ecovillage Podcast

The Earthaven Ecovillage Podcast features audio interviews about all aspects of ecovillage living. Each podcast is approximately 30 minutes. You can find podcasts here or subscribe wherever you get podcasts. (This podcast was formerly called the Integrated Living Podcast.) If you enjoy listening to this, please donate to support the podcast and our education programs. This podcast is produced by the Earthaven Ecovillage's School of Integrated Living.

Episodes

  1. On Storytelling with Doug Elliott

    07/24/2023

    On Storytelling with Doug Elliott

    Early childhood educator Lia Grippo interviews storyteller Doug Elliott about his storytelling process. As an example, he shares the background for each of the verses from his iconic black snake song.

    22 min
  2. My Journey with Natural Building with Mollie Curry

    08/12/2022

    My Journey with Natural Building with Mollie Curry

    Mollie Curry moved to Earthaven in 1996, becoming one of the first village residents and getting involved in natural building. She’s taught natural building workshops since 1998, covering cob, plastering, straw bale, straw-clay, earthen paint, earthbag, and carpentry, as well as permaculture. Mollie has been involved in many of the natural building projects at Earthaven, as well as teaching and doing projects in other locations, which has informed her building experience.  Mollie Curry shares what she learned in her nearly three decades of experience designing and building natural buildings at Earthaven and around the country.

    33 min
  3. Creating Culture and Community Through Ritual with Kaitlin Ilya Wolf

    07/03/2022

    Creating Culture and Community Through Ritual with Kaitlin Ilya Wolf

    In this podcast, Kaitlin Ilya Wolf discusses how creating a cycle of annual seasonal rituals helps Earthaven ecovillagers sink into the cycles around us and within us to become a part of this land. She then shares the parts of a ritual, challenges of facilitating ritual at Earthaven, and offers tips for rituals for people who don’t have a community or piece of land to connect with.

    29 min
  4. Mentors, Elders, and Groundhogs with Doug Elliott

    05/12/2022

    Mentors, Elders, and Groundhogs with Doug Elliott

    Doug Elliott is a naturalist, herbalist, storyteller, basket maker, back-country guide, philosopher, and harmonica wizard. For many years made his living as a traveling herbalist, gathering and selling herbs, teas, and remedies. Doug currently lives in Rutherford County, near Earthaven Ecovillage. Doug shares his early mentor experience while growing up in an estuary of the Chesapeake Bay. Later he moved to North Carolina as part of the back-to-the-land movement, learning from old timers. Along the way, he shares how shoestrings made from groundhog led to him meeting his wife and how important it is to help older people be who they are.

    21 min
  5. Healing People and the Planet with Swami Ravi Rudra Bharati

    10/31/2021

    Healing People and the Planet with Swami Ravi Rudra Bharati

    Swami Ravi Rudra Bharati, formerly known as Dr. Rudolph Valentine, has been very committed to the integration of Eastern thought, particularly yoga and tantra, and permaculture, and all that implies, as well as it relates to healing. Swami Ravi shares his background as a physician and holistic healer of Ayurvedic medicine in clinics in India and the US. During his medical career, he studied tantra, which he began teaching after retiring from medicine. In 2004, he moved to Earthaven, continued teaching, and developed the Dancing Shiva retreat center.  Most of the conversation explores a holistic view of soil health, plant health, the health of people and the planet, including the implications and challenges for healing the people and Gaia.

    35 min
  6. What Earthaven Ecovillage is All About... For Me with Paul Caron

    06/28/2021

    What Earthaven Ecovillage is All About... For Me with Paul Caron

    Earthaven Ecovillage co-founder and village philosopher Paul Caron shares how he got involved with the other Earthaven founders, innovations in round-pole timber framing that enabled building Earthaven's iconic Council Hall, and what the Earthaven Ecovillage project is all about... for him.

    29 min
  7. Nature connection with Lia Grippo, Kelly Virrarruel, and Erin Boehme

    05/11/2021

    Nature connection with Lia Grippo, Kelly Virrarruel, and Erin Boehme

    Academy of Forest Kindergarten directors Erin Boehme, Kelly Villarruel, and Lia Grippo discuss nature connection and young child development. They also talk about the annual Reaching Nature Connection weekend conference at Earthaven Ecovillage.

    35 min
  8. From Permaculture to Regional Mutual Aid with Zev Friedman, Season 1, Episode 5

    03/29/2021

    From Permaculture to Regional Mutual Aid with Zev Friedman, Season 1, Episode 5

    In this podcast, Zev Friedman shares how he started living and teaching permaculture at Earthaven Ecovillage, and then how that led to forming Co-operate Western North Carolina (Co-operate WNC). Along the way, Zev shares examples of different types of permaculture and the work that Co-operate WNC is doing. Diana Leafe Christian is host.

    32 min
  9. Compassionate Communication in Community Settings with Steve Torma

    02/07/2021

    Compassionate Communication in Community Settings with Steve Torma

    Earthaven member and SOIL Faculty member Steve Torma discusses how nonviolent or compassionate communication (NVC) has been helpful in his life, neighborhood, and at Earthaven, along with how he discovered and started teaching NVC. Steve has been an Earthaven member since 1994, helped build the village and was a co-founder of two neighborhoods.

    25 min
  10. Finding Community with Diana Leafe Christian

    01/13/2021

    Finding Community with Diana Leafe Christian

    International communities expert Diana Leafe Christian shares what she learned from interviewing people from successful and failed communities, and the questions people who are looking for a community should ask. She tells about how she ended up living at Earthaven and why it’s her forever home. She also tells the story of a woman and her snarling German Shepherd who drove into Earthaven without calling ahead – displaying all of the things not to do when seeking a community. Diana shares what she plans to cover in her Finding Your Community Home workshop and how it will benefit both folks looking for a community and communities looking for new members.

    29 min

  11. 12/26/2020

    Lee Warren's Lessons from a Life in Community, Season 1, Episode 2

    Lee Warren shares what she has learned living in community for 27 years. She has lived at Earthaven for over 20 years, co-founded the Village Terraces neighborhood and also the School of Integrated Living. She has many years of experience with farming, both with Imani farm at Earthaven and as Executive Director at a sustainable agriculture non-profit in Asheville.

    32 min
  12. Steve Torma's Life in Community

    12/05/2020

    Steve Torma's Life in Community

    Host Eric Wolf interviews Steve Torma about his life in community, starting from growing up in a large family to his current life at Earthaven Ecovillage in Western North Carolina. He shares what he wished he had known before co-developing a neighborhood at Earthaven.

    25 min
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    About

    The Earthaven Ecovillage Podcast features audio interviews about all aspects of ecovillage living. Each podcast is approximately 30 minutes. You can find podcasts here or subscribe wherever you get podcasts. (This podcast was formerly called the Integrated Living Podcast.) If you enjoy listening to this, please donate to support the podcast and our education programs. This podcast is produced by the Earthaven Ecovillage's School of Integrated Living.

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    • Creator
      Earthaven Ecovillage
    • Years Active
      2021 - 2023
    • Episodes
      12
    • Rating
      Clean
    • Copyright
      © Copyright 2020-2021 Culture's Edge 501(c)3
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      Earthaven Ecovillage Podcast

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