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 […]