Written by Bob, Over the last few weeks I have been helping build a greenhouse/workshop for our family home. Exploring how we use our sub-soil pumice to provide subfloor insulation, and mixing with lime to provide flooring. Incorporating a wicking bed, a soldier fly farm, and a worm farm into the greenhouse to make it an intensive […]
Lots of new settlers have been arriving lately from all over; tents, buses, caravans etc…, all settling in with a new energy on the land. Kyle has been beavering away on the designs, so we are starting to imagine houses sprouting up soon. Our new community tent is up, and I have enjoyed the […]
Setting the Sails After reaching our goal of purchasing the land (we finally saw the new certificate of title today) I just ‘pulled the sails down and coasted, lying about on the deck’, while we tidied up the details. Its been a time to de-stress, and catch up on life (the garden is looking great) […]
Thirteen Sites With New Owners! The Land Is Secure For The Village! Four months ago we launched sales of leases for settlers at Kotare Village. We’ve had a roller coaster of a time since then. We have been inundated with families and people wanting to check us out and join us and many of them entering the settlers […]
Oxi – Bravo to the Greeks. For me there has been something special in watching the Greek people stand up to the financial/political orthodoxy. They are by no means out of the mess their old leaders have got them into, but enough of them have at least got clear that the existing order doesn’t work […]
Right now myself, Kay, Tes and Shaked are on a workshop tour. We did a talk in Taipo last night and are off to Hamilton today for a few days then back through Whakatane. Life back in Koatre Village is pretty exciting right now. We are far far too busy, but watching the new settlers […]
This week in the village has been full on, between the Appropriate Technology Internship, voting in 5 new families to join us (Leon, Laura, Campbell and Monika, Soni and Kyle, & Michelle) along with our usual Monday night circles, and our Thursday night ‘design nights’, which have become Wednesday and Thursday night design nights while […]
This last week has been amazing. As most of you know the first step in the settlers process is to set a skype call with Shaked and myself to get some of your detailed questions answered and get to know eachother a bit. Shaked and I were very busy meeting some of you this last […]
It is an exciting time in the village as we have crossed a major threshold. Everyday we are receiving new inquiries and interest from all over the world for both prospective Settlers and Investors. This has been largely due to Kirsten’s marketing drive to get the word out over the last few months, so my […]
Wow, we can hardly remember what happened last week, it was a lot!. Firstly Kay & Bob got a new roof over the house truck which has meant no more condensation on the ceiling during the cold mornings. As per Kay “this changes my life a lot!”. Their next step will be to instal a […]