Atamai Ecovillage New Zealand Living in the Future (Ecovillages) 60 

They never last long, especially down there as the isolation of NZ drives people to depression and exacerbates the inherent selfishness of this sort of person.

I’ll tell you why as I used to live in the wider area for over 40 years until recently . The ground in that area is predominately moutere clay . The more fertile productive land is down in the flats and valleys and this village is relatively high on a hill where there is not a lot of top soil . Excavation of the area has removed alot of soil down to the clay . The clay in the area is very hard to grow trees in unless they are pines . I spent alot of time planting in this type of land and it usually involves removing the clay and back filling the hole with decent material to get the tree off to a good start . The land there is rubbish but people pay through the nose to live in the Tasman / Nelson district for the relatively good weather year round .

This project appears to have been a real estate fraud scheme: www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/89774973/Son-of-Atamai-Village-financiers-buys-up-liquidated-land-for-new-project

@@crispyglove What a HUGE disappointment!!!

@@crispyglove My husband and I lived at Atamai for awhile and we had high hopes but there were too many Chiefs and not enough Indians. The Chiefs fell out with each other (which is your link above) and the other factor was that the individual sections were too pricey. Sadly, the co-housing project never got off the ground as I think that could have saved it.

jessie mayfield why would you put toxic makeup on to please others, my skin has never been better since I quit using make up so now I don't need it

julieandbrooklyn are you alone?,have you gone full on anti cosmetics and oh natural also when it comes to shaving?,why do most (not all but most) alternative lifestyle people smell and look like hairy forest fairy’s 🤔each their own

Gray Frank I can’t I disagree with everything you said but you said it in a cruel way

This is what you’ll find down there in Takaka etc. It’s horrendous.

Thanks for engaging and thinking about it :)