Intimacy in the Ecovillage Setting

July 8, 2011

Written by Ted Sterling [Recently printed in Communities Magazine, issue #151, Intimacy] Since first I met Dancing Rabbit founder Tony Sirna at the Communities Conference in Willits, CA in 1998, I have understood that the “village” part of ecovillage here was meant as more than a euphemism. Dancing Rabbit was intended to be more or [...]

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How Much Does a Rabbit Consume?

June 29, 2011

How much can I consume while still being socially and ecologically responsible? How little can I consume and maintain a high quality of life? In many ways Dancing Rabbit is an experiment built around these questions. So far I believe we have made significant headway. In the chart below you can find numbers comparing consumption for [...]

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Ten Years Later, 50 People Call Dancing Rabbit Home

January 26, 2011

Written by Ted Sterling When I first came to Dancing Rabbit as an intern in 2001, there was a poster chart in one of the old double-wide trailer’s back hallways showing a more-or-less exponential projected growth rate, with a fairly linear actual growth rate plotted year-by-year beneath it. At our Land Day rituals, I have [...]

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Welcome to The March Hare Blog

October 3, 2010

Welcome to the newly launched March Hare blog! Dancing Rabbit’s long-running print newsletter is finally entering the era of blogs. We are sad to discontinue the print version of our beloved newsletter, but we’re also excited about the new possibilities of upkeeping a website dedicated to life at Dancing Rabbit with news, stories, how-tos, and [...]

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Sustainable Agriculture and Community at Sandhill Farm

December 22, 2009

Sandhill Farm, home to friends of Dancing Rabbit, is a small neighboring intentional community here in northeastern Missouri. Sandhill has been practicing organic agriculture and gardening since 1974 on 135 acres, and the community provides most of its own food, including vegetables, fruits, herbs, sorghum syrup, honey, chickens, and turkeys. This video gives us a [...]

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Milkweed Mercantile: Straw bale bed & breakfast – opening soon!

September 25, 2008

The Milkweed Mercantile at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage is an off-the-grid, straw bale bed & breakfast, organic cafe, and eco general store. Alline gives us a mini tour of the business, which is currently under construction, but opening soon. The Mercantile is currently a finalist for a $10K award at Ideablob.com. Please consider voting for us [...]

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‘Life With Thomas’ playing at Hi Mom! Film Festival

August 27, 2008

Hello dear viewers. Despite what you may think, DRTV is not dead. It’s merely on a break, since I have been busy building a cob house the past four months. With all that stomping of mud, little time is left to capture daily life here at Dancing Rabbit. However, there is some exciting and relevant [...]

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Rocket Stoves video: superefficient wood-fired heaters

April 30, 2008

Rocket stoves are superefficient wood-fired stoves that can easily be built using readily available and recycled materials. They are a common sight in cob, straw bale, and other natural building designs. In this video, Nathan and Tony describe two different rocket stove systems, detailing the inner workings of the stoves and their unique ability to [...]

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