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Posts from ‘April, 2009’

Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage and humanure on The Daily Show

A day or two later after A Kid Off The Grid aired on Nickelodeon, The Daily Show took notice. We were excerpted in a segment with Lewis Black making some funny commentary about our use of the humanure system (”pooping in buckets”). They didn’t use our name, so most people will probably never know just [...]

A Kid Off The Grid: Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage on Nick News TV

Dancing Rabbit was very recently featured on Nickelodeon’s Nick News in their Kid Off The Grid TV feature. A camera crew came out in February to talk to some of the DR kids about daily life in an off-the-grid community.
It’s a seven minute segment that’s actually quite well done and covers a lot of info. [...]

Sheet mulching keyhole garden beds

I think I’m done making my sheet mulched garden beds. I say “I think” because I may want to make up a couple additional beds in the near future, but I have everything complete that was priority.
I used the sheet mulching method of creating these garden beds. That means I did not dig into the [...]

Dancing Rabbit on My Life in Food on Food Network

On Saturday, April 4 at 6:30 P.M. ET, Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage will be featured on the Food Network’s new TV series, My Life in Food.
The episode is called Living Off The Land and it gives a sneak peak into community living at Dancing Rabbit and it documents the community’s relationship to growing and eating food.
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