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FOUND: Equinox Adventures at Hart’s Mill
My ears strain to catch the sound of trickling water. If I can find the wetland or the stream, I’ll know where I am and can shadow it home. Is that it? No, it’s giggling trees being tickled by the … Continue reading
Labor for–and from–the Hart
This Labor Day’s work weekend began with a tractor workshop led by Jeffry on Saturday afternoon. Tain, Margret, and Virginia were given a very thorough and clear explanation of all of the red beast’s bells and whistles—well, more like levers, … Continue reading
A Joyous July at Hart’s Mill
A lot happens in a month at Hart’s Mill Ecovillage! Here are the headlines from July: The July 3rd Work Day sizzled with activity—gardening, cobbing, trail building, and even excavating a seeder axel-deep in the mud(!)—followed by food for all. … Continue reading
Heart to Hart–A Sharing Circle Focused on the Architecture Process
People work hard at Hart’s Mill, traveling distances to come to meetings, work days, social gatherings, workshops, not to mention doing research, making phone calls, and preparing agendas and materials in-between. We have accomplished a lot and built bonds of … Continue reading
Work Camp Redux: A Smashing Time
The Second Annual Memorial Day Weekend Work Camp had a lovely mix of good work — trail maintenance and building, and cobbing, mostly — with lots of great 4-year-old energy (Gaius), thunderstorms going right over our intrepid Saturday night campers, … Continue reading
Gobs of Cob
The whirlwind of April activity has resulted in the little cob and straw bale building emerging from the ground. On April Fools day, Randy and Greg had an all day core work out building the urbanite (aka rubble) foundation. … Continue reading
Ahoy, Bok Choi! Hart’s Mill Farm activities
by Jeffry Goodrum Gardening for 2017 is well underway. In the community garden we have a bed of beets, a bed of onions and a bed of salad greens started, and the other 4 beds are soon to be planted. … Continue reading
A Glorious Cob Mob
Eleven hardy souls gathered from far and near on 4/8-9 to mix up several dozen batches of cob by foot and hand and start building the walls of the little building looking out over the eastern field. A big shout out … Continue reading
April Fools cobknobbing , and much anticipated April cob mobs
According to Websters, hobknob means: “to spend time with someone (such as a famous or wealthy person) in a friendly way”. By extension, the newly birthed word “cobknob” means “to spend time with someone (such as a famous or wealthy … Continue reading
New Harts Mill video…..
by Randy Dodd A couple months ago, I was perusing the Carrboro ArtsCenter winter/spring course offerings. One caught my eye, “Make a Documentary in Seven Weeks”. It promised to teach me “Final Cut Pro X”, and also offered access to … Continue reading
