Written by Kay, Last night at Design night we came to an agreement about how and what we will celebrate over the next year….. we were already regularly celebrating the Summer and Winter solstices, as well as the Spring and Autumn equinox’s, and we are doing that by each bringing the things from our past […]

Written by Shaked. Not long ago, while communicating with a prospective settler, i was faced with an interesting question relating to policy and management of ‘the commons’ called ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’, here is a description of the question as presented by the thoughtful person: (thank you for that!) [Taken from The Inverse Commons, […]

Written by Amy, This was our second hui.. we had been to the September one and it had been very rainy and cold.. unusually so apparently. Nevertheless, we had enjoyed it enough to want to come again. I had been sold at the get go.. My husband, Cameron, is normally the one who insists on […]

Written by Franzi, Taiamai and I moved to Kotare Village in 2011. After initially living within the communal camping area, first in one caravan and later, when our daughter Elanor arrived, in a second ‘bedroom’ caravan, we moved onto our section (Lot 3) in late 2012. The caravans, together with a kitchen awning called ‘the […]

As part of our ‘settlers process’ we have put together a program that we run once a month during the summer months, this is a time for people who are interested in the village to come here, get a feel for the land, meet us, those who have already chose that Kotare Village is a […]

Written by Shaked. For several days during the last month we have been planting hundreds of trees, small and fragile they look now, but they are the start of a forest, the forest that Kotare Village is going to become. We have been learning and designing forest gardens for a while now, on our sections […]

Written by Shaked. This is just a taste to an amazing book, Bob recommended it to me and I dived in. In her book ‘Owning Our Future’ Marjorie Kelly has brought forward a great assessment of our situation, and some great examples for hope, its been great to see how the system’s design that bob […]

Written by Brian Over the last several years I have been feeling less connected to the way we, as humanity, are living and have been open to alternative living when Kotare Village showed up! After attending the hui, Rose and I agreed that Kotare ‘felt good’ and represented a lot of what we desired to […]

Written by carolyn. I have actually ended up with two solar systems. One is designed for my caravan and is the one I generally use. The other solar system came with my fridge/freezer which is not yet in use, so I am looking after that battery by keeping it charged. I have found that the […]

Written by Tes. I’ve been living here at Kotare for 4 years now, Since August so you may have seen my name pop up here and there if you have followed Kotare Village for a while. I’m Tes, I was born in NZ and have family mostly in Tauranga, as well around Aotearoa and the […]