Milkweed Mercantile

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Construction of the Milkweed Mercantile at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage began in the spring of 2007.

When completed, the two-story strawbale building will run solely on solar and wind power. (Like all buildings at Dancing Rabbit, the Mercantile is being built entirely with alternative energy. All power tools are run on power from Kurt & Alline's solar and wind system). It features a 7,000 gallon cistern to hold collected rainwater and a wraparound porch.

We made great progress until July 3rd, when we received news that Alline's brother had been critically injured. On the day of his funeral, July 20th, we learned that Kurt's father was ill.

The bright side of building a business in a community like Dancing Rabbit is that we were able to drop everything and be with our families. Kurt's father passed away in October. The trusty crew continued working through freezing weather in November and December, when they finally had to stop to avoid frostbite.

Work resumed again in the spring of 2008.

We opened the store in July 2009, and had our first event in October. We look forward to hosting you and your friends and family beginning March 2010. For reservations please see the inn website.

The Mercantile Webstore store.milkweedmercantile.com opened in August. We look forward to hearing from you, and to having you visit us once the Milkweed Mercantile is open for guests!

Cordially,
Alline & Kurt
aka "The Milkweeds"

For more about life at Dancing Rabbit from Alline's point of view, see ecovillagemusings.blogspot.com/

For more on Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage see www.dancingrabbit.org/

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items are from between 08 May 2009 & 26 Oct 2009.