As usual, we have had a lovely diverse mixture of people around us.
SPRING AT EARTHSONG
October 19, 2014 by 1 Comment
Recently, Tanya organised a working bee with the Permaculture focus group to clear overgrown garden beds around the Earthsong Common House in preparation for spring planting. 24 Earthsong people turned up to help. Six large beds cleared, a giant hot compost built, and delicious muffins and coffee provided … Now most Earthsongers are busy planting up their […]
living in different worlds
September 19, 2014 by Leave a Comment
This month we’ve been living in three vastly different worlds within Aotearoa Read more in the other postings : ..a cooperative community ..a city of contradictions ..an election
a city of contradictions…
September 19, 2014 by Leave a Comment
beauty … The kowhai around Ranui are in full flower now, and visited daily by dozens of tui which hurtle with aerobatic skill through branches, and chortle and warble their spring invitations. Piwakawaka – including a rare pale cream one (leucistic is the technical description) discovered by Earthsong resident Melody – flutter around the trees in […]
Artist in Residence
August 19, 2014 by 2 Comments
We are delighted to be hosting at Earthsong our friend and artist, Nic Moon, from Nelson. She is creating an amazing indoor Earth Forest on the walls of the new Ranui Library currently under construction. Each day we marvel at the different phases of the project, starting from the gathering and mixing of local clays to […]
Atiu Island
August 19, 2014 by 1 Comment
We’ve been lucky to spend a week of our winter on Atiu, which is a small island three-quarters of an hour’s flight north-east from Rarotonga in the southern Cook Island group. It’s a volcanic island 11 million years old, with a central plateau slowly rising from the sea, a raised fossil coral border (makatea), and a […]
Arts on Atiu
August 19, 2014 by Leave a Comment
We discovered amazing artistic talents on Atiu. While chatting to an elderly couple at the local store, Nga and Paiere Mokoroa, we were invited to visit and see Nga’s exquisite heritage tivaivai (a type of patchwork quilt developed in the Cook Islands). We also visited Andrea Eimke, a German woman who set up Atiu Fibre Arts studio […]
People on Atiu
August 19, 2014 by Leave a Comment
We met several interesting locals during our stay. We visited Mata Arai in her coffee plantation, and then her home, where she showed us her hand processing of the beans and served us a pikelets with a brew of freshly ground coffee. Birdman George (George Mateariki) took […]
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