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 […]
A few of us went on a bit of a sour dough craze here at the village after Leòn taught us how to make it. Always trust a German when it comes to bread making! We’ve had quite a few requests for the recipe to go with this photo we posted on Facebook last month […]
It is such an exciting time in the village and we are honoured you are interested! We launched last week with the sale of Kotare Village Sites. All the information is NOW UP on the website for your review! On Kotare Village web site you will notice the new tab “Buy Land” Simply hover over “Buy Land” […]
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 […]