The March Hare: Fall '04
Issue 42

The many faces of Fall * The Ecovillage at 1 Jaunty Weasel Lane * Member Bio: Amy * A growing appetite for life at Dancing Rabbit * 7th Annual Land Day Celebration and Open House * Nature Corner: Metamorphosis * Eggplant "Caviar"-- Missouri style

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The many faces of Fall

Ironweed kitchen

For some, fall means new beginnings: a new school year, or a move to a new home. Others are scrambling to bring in the harvest and preserve it against the cold, while their neighbors are hustling just as hard to complete their building projects--all the while welcoming surges of tours and visitors. And some are slowing down to admire the turning leaves and the wildlife before the snow changes everything.

This issue of the March Hare lets you sample some of these modes at Dancing Rabbit. Our newest member Amy Seiden tells the story of how and why she chose to pick up her life and her cats and move it all here to NEMO (northeast Missouri for you non-locals). This fall she's nestling into her room in Skyhouse as their newest member. And our new resident Nicole Dionne reveals some of the reasons a former intern might have for returning to DR.

Alyson serves up the tasty and popular recipe that helped deal with the buckets and buckets of eggplants, red peppers, and tomatoes that flooded in this fall. Our Rabbit friends were happy to benefit from the failure of some of the jars to seal.

Every fall we celebrate Land Day, the anniversary of buying our land seven years ago. Friends, family and visitors were here to help us celebrate and joined us the following weekend for Open House. Some snapshots of those events are in these pages.

We hope the adventures of the dwellers of Jaunty Weasel Lane continue to entertain you; this time you get a whiff of one of the less public sides of our village, but one that perhaps saves more water than any other single aspect of life here.

Rachel offers a glimpse of nature bringing itself to her door, as often happens here even for those of us who are less knowledgeable about it than she is. In such cases we usually summon her immediately, so we can find out what we're looking at.

There's lots more going on here--Skyhouse and the Community Building both have kitchens now, Dan's house boasts a porch (not to mention a roof and walls!), the Ironweed kitchen frame is stunning everyone with its beauty, Laura and Bob are moving along on their winter shelters, we're making progress on our land use planning guidelines, and we're getting better at contra-dancing. May winter find us all--and you, our readers--snug, well-fed, and content.

The many faces of Fall * The Ecovillage at 1 Jaunty Weasel Lane * Member Bio: Amy * A growing appetite for life at Dancing Rabbit * 7th Annual Land Day Celebration and Open House * Nature Corner: Metamorphosis * Eggplant "Caviar"-- Missouri style