Harvest Celebration

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Harvest Celebration

On Sunday we had a day harvest celebration. We started off, in the below freezing temperatures, with cider pressing and scarecrow making, then moved the newly painted chicken coop into it's winter location near the barns. Of course, a good chicken coop moving needs some celebration, so Alan (painter-in-chief of the coop) and Ruth served up some root beer float in the Common House. Dinner was pot-luck with the 'rule' that all the dishes had to be composed of ingredients grown at Cobb Hill (with the exception of salt and spices). From baked beans to corn bread to a multitude of winter squash concoctions the food was bountiful, varied and delicious. And we finished of the day with singing, drumming and hanging out in the den, munching on popcorn which was (you guessed it!) grown at Cobb Hill. I'm looking forward to next year's harvest celebration already!

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Dartmouth comes to Cobb Hill

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Dartmouth comes to Cobb Hill

I am a professor at Dartmouth and the Executive Director of a large research lab called the Digital Arts Leadership and Innovation (DALI) Lab.  Every year I bring my students and members of the lab to Cobb Hill.  Saturday night 20 students and staff came for dinner, blueberry picking, and s'mores by the fire pit.  It couldn't have been better. Once again Cobb Hill, and all we do and aspire to do, were inspirational to a group of young people from a wide range of backgrounds. 

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The Hope of Francis

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The Hope of Francis

If our species is to survive and thrive we must regain the knowledge, commitment and will to adapt our ways of living to sustainable and renewable patterns that enhance rather than destroy the life of this planet. We can do this. All the tumult, fears, struggles and hopes we each experience in our own microcosm of community are not in any way separate from this exciting macro-cosmic moment of danger and opportunity.

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A Day of Climate Advocacy for Some Cobb Hillians

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A Day of Climate Advocacy for Some Cobb Hillians

Three Cobb Hill teens, Jenna, Nora, and Gretta, have been particularly active in the Vermont divestment effort over the past six months, lobbying legislators, attending the pension investment committee meetings and delivering public comments to the investment board. Jenna has also been hand-painting banners for use at divestment rallies across the state (see a cool video of Jenna making one of those banners here).

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