Earthen Grove Ecovillage

Hi, this is Zach and Hailey. We are building a Regenerative community in southern Vermont on 11.5 beautiful acres of woodland. With some space in the process of being cleared for community gardens. There is a cabin with a full bath and a large kitchen that is communal. And currently, the available space is a trailer that sleeps up to 4 people, two adults and two kids. It has its own bathroom and a small kitchen space. Other spaces on the land could accommodate camping in the warmer months while we, as a community, build each other’s homes. We welcome community members who have their own tiny homes to bring.

Our dream is to have people come build natural structures to live in and share the already existing cabin for larger amenities. We want to operate around sharing meals and helping with day-to-day tasks like cooking, chopping firewood, gardening, building projects, herbalism, childcare, and community education.

We have over a decade of experience is human scale natural structures that are a joy to craft, cost very little, and the whole family can engage in the artful process. We believe in small structures that are sculpted around personal needs. Our goal is to have a village of small homes gathered around the common cabin.

We grow using no-till, biodynamic practices. We have been certified in permacultural design. And eat a high protien Plant- based diet. Our goal is to be capable of feeding the whole community from food we grow locally.

The following is a collection of books that we have found inspiring, which illustrate aspects of community that we wish to cultivate.

“The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” by Annie Barrows & Mary Ann Shaffer

We love the free form but earnestly engaged and dynamically represented way that this group meets together and engages intellectually and as friends. As well as how they weather challenging times, making each other stronger in the face of adversity by creating a cozy culture that brings sweetness to the darkest times.

“Dies the Fire Trilogy” by S.M. Stirling

We love the Community resourcefulness and the way they collaborate to solve problems and meet needs. As well as how they use a strong community identity to build a sense of interpersonal continuity and ownership of making the community a place that they want their posterity to live. Routinely, people will set out to solve problems that would make the community more secure. And those who can’t help directly are quick to find a way to support. This story also illustrates how communities can develop a sense of inner continuity and pride by gathering around the development of a particular set of skills that make you feel unified and formidable as a community. It also illustrates having community rituals that help ground and connect the community, keeping them on the same page as far as where you are in the wheel of the year and what needs to be done now to fulfill the potential of the season, as well as helping community members feel seen, needed, and nurtured in the seasons of their own lives.

“The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien

“If more of us valued food, song, and cheer above horded gold, it would be a merrier world.” We wish to build small hobbit holes, and that means comfort. And all hobbits (Earthen Grove community members) share a love for things that grow. Small houses with small gardens tucked in around larger fields, orchards, and forests. And occasionally embarking on adventures together, even if it might make us late for dinner.

“The Hand-sculpted House” by Ianto Evans, Michael G Smith, and Linda Smiley

This inspiring book on human-scale natural building is really good at helping to redefine what ideal human habitation looks like. And how to truly sculpt a place of belonging that fits you like a glove and makes you feel more like yourself in a truly wonderful way.

We are cultivating a community spirit of contentedly connected, earnestly engaged, and artfully present people. Who flow through work and play, thought and song, story and stillness; secure in a sense of belonging, inspired by a sense of responsibility, and healed by living in the epicenter of your own artistic blosoming.

This Spotify playlist represents a color palette of music that resonates with the vibe we presently carry.

Peasanty, profound, timeless, earthy, mythological, wholesome work, natural insight, or adventure-oriented. vocal, and Acoustic.