My name is Sonrisa and I am the newest animal on the farm. I arrived on September 15th and hit the ground running on the 16th with my first milking shift. I have been wide eyed and constantly learning and moving in my new job here. Its been a big shift from teaching high school […]
Water is such a major thing. During the last years of living on the land here at Kotare Village, we had 2 main lines carrying water for us around the property, one line with drinking water (drinking, cooking, showers, laundry) the water comes from a spring on the hill block, or from the Mangaone stream, […]
In the past month there has been lots of activity on the building front at Kotare Village and I figured it would be a good time to introduce the biggest of these projects, village housing. I intend this to be the first in a series of posts which share a bit about the building process along […]
With the land secure, our focus has shifted to the settler process, and the ‘development process’ which will be enacted through Kotare Commons – so time for a little background. Kotare Commons Ltd (KC) is a private limited liability company set up to manage the infrastructure development (roading, water reticulation, cabling etc) plus to encourage […]
So……..we’ve not been having a rest, I can assure you! We have been taking some time to take care of things at home and also to nourish ourselves over the winter since we owned the home block and could begin to relax a little…… bringing in new settlers takes a lot of energy and we […]