sequatchie valley institute

Solar powered and energy efficient homes and buildings in Tennessee and across the country will be open for public tours. It’s all part of the upcoming National Solar Tour. The tour offers local residents an opportunity to find out how their neighbors are: trimming energy bills increasing energy independence taking steps to address global warming [...]

Sequatchie Valley is a relatively long and narrow valley in the U.S. state of Tennessee and, in geologic terms, Alabama. It is generally considered to be part of the Cumberland Plateau region of the Appalachian Mountains; it was probably formed by erosion of a compression anticline, rather than rifting as was formerly theorized. You can learn more about the Sequatchie Valley and [...]

SVI and Moonshadow will be closed to the public on Saturday, June 19 2010 for a private event, and there will no public tour on this day. our next public tour will be July 17,2010.

Johnny Kimmons of Sequatchie Valley Institute will join john johnson and forestry management students from the University of Tennessee for this informative workshop explaining the methods and benefits of sustainable small-scale forest management. Local, sustainable, low-input, positive impact forest management for lumber, firewood, wildlife habitat and fungiculture will be discussed, with hands-on work for participants. Topics [...]

SVI and the moonshadow crew will be found in Planet-Roo in the middle of Center-Roo for our seventh year of natural building demos, craft sales, solar stage performances and academy presentations. Come say hi and hang out in our cool (in more ways than you can count) straw bale and cob booth!

sequatchie valley institute at moonshadow invites you to the twelfth annual food for life  in the new millennium a gathering about the source and protection of life held in beautiful rural tennessee — Jun 3-6, 2010 Our twelfth annual comprehensive food conference includes skill-building workshops as well as discussion-oriented political dialogues. Plan to attend for [...]

well, thanks to many helping hands, march brought us the third floor’s roof! yippppeeeee! no more tarps! an incredible feeling of accomplishment and calm has washed over the moonshadow community as we remember all of the aspects of our lives that are *not* related to this amazing building project… we have a lot of folks [...]

hello there friends of svi and moonshadow! we are now up to the highest level we will attempt.  the third floor has been laid and it’s time for us to work towards the final gable roof!  WE ARE ALMOST COVERED!  there are only about 20 more posts and beams to raise and we would like [...]

greetings, friends! well, we got back into it mid-january with a super-great work-weekend full of positive energy and lots of progress. we got over half of the posts up on the second floor and had enough strong backs to lift all of the beams into place. that’s the kind of work we just can’t do [...]