We are living in an extraordinary moment of time where there is a global awakening to the creative opportunities of an alternative paradigm in our relationship with the earth and each other. This is fuelled by the many crises we are faced with. It is time for us to bring a new paradigm into being, […]
Last weekend we celebrated the equinox and harvest festival season by having a special dinner with friends and creating a huge table of all of the produce that we had been harvesting. It is such a special feeling having all that summer energy stored away for winter. Kay said about the event “It reminded me […]
We processed our Essene flax seed today and we ended up with 5 .5 kgs from two biointensive beds of 10 sq m each. I think we can still go way better than that but we are building soil and that is great start. I did a bit of research and found out that there […]
In the 70’s and 80’s there was a flurry of intentional communities that then seemed to lose their relevance, and less followed. Interest and developments have once again mushroomed for obvious reasons. The promise of high tech society and increasing leisure, somehow got lost – most people are working busier lives with bigger mortgages, for […]
This is a letter we wrote to or friends at Weston A. Price Foundation. Sharing it here because it paints a nice picture of what village life looks like…. Kia Ora to all Weston Price members. We are a group of people in beautiful New Zealand who are developing an eco-village, Kotare Village, where we are […]
I’m an early riser, every morning sees me walking the tracks, listening to the gaps in the silence here. Observing what’s new. This week the paradise ducks moved in for the breeding season here after being in the river all summer. I love their honking as I disturb their grazing. My highlight for the week […]
At this time I see that one of the most important things we can do is recreate communities, especially in rural areas around regenerative agriculture, communities that can be models all around the world for the regeneration of the land and our communities, and of the regeneration of of life on earth! This is my […]
A special thanks to those of you who joined us in the last hui. Did you know we hold a monthly hui for people interested in the project? It always a pleasure and ends with a Koanga Institute tour. It’s a big weekend for all of us in the village and we find holding hui with several groups […]
First and foremost I want to thank you for all your support, for your continued interest in Kotare Village, and for reminding me that there are others who share in this dream and are contributing to make it a reality. You keep inspiring me! It has been an exciting past few weeks at the Kotare […]
26th June 2014 Just had an amazing talk with a trustee for a meditation retreat, who descibed how they used a company to purchase their land after they weren’t able to raise enough through donations. He shared with me the stratgeies they used and the support they received to be able to purchase their land. […]