Written by Michelle, What an adventure life is. Always sitting there waiting for us to wake up to the opportunity of possibilities that lie in front of us. How that translates into daily life at Kotare Village…. As a community blending of ages from 2- 75 years, we are an experienced collection of folks from varied backgrounds always […]
Kotare Villagers local town of Wairoa is around a 24km ride away and is the northernmost town in the Hawkes Bay area. The word Wairoa is Maori for long river which reflects the length of the serene river which runs through the town. Wairoa is like a garden that has once been bountiful and then […]
It’s Hui Season and we want to warmly invite you to come and find out whether this village life might be the change that you are looking for. Always been interested in what we do? Signed up to the newsletter and curious to know what it’s really like and whether maybe this is the place […]
Some people may of heard of CSA, as in Community Supported Agriculture, well have you also heard of CSB? Community Supported Broth? For three weeks now I have been making a broth based soup lunch Monday to Friday to help out all the new people who are just getting settled in here at Kotare […]
Shaked and Carolyn have been literally in the trenches, digging, laying pipes and connecting to 30+ sections. Requiring stamina, persistence and logic on a parr with solving a rubix cube, the Water team has done an amazing job, with input from resident engineering intern Mateus, and initialised and implemented by Kyle, Shaked, Sean, Mateus and Carolyn. Carolyn has been there throughout […]
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 […]
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. […]
