Campaign Closing
26 October 2022
Thank you everyone who supported us through the heartbreaking storm damage, it has been a crazy year and we are nearly (nearly) through the major repairs, just a few more fences to go (and a whole lot that we will forget about fixing forever).
I’m sorry I haven’t been more in touch, but it has been a whirlwind of a year, it took 5 1/2 months to get a road, and 6 or 7 months to get a working phone line. We have major power line realignments coming in the next few weeks and we hope soon to get a fencer in to help.
We have started planting and with heartfelt thanks to the Akaroa Playcentre and Meridian Energy who have donated plants and turned up to help get them in, it’s not so much about how much is achieved but how much love is shown.
We also have a brand new swimming hole, which is an incredible place to escape to and take time to admire the small natives taking root and hand weed out the gorse and other weeds.
While the amount of damage is still hard to understand, I am far past the grieving for what we lost and all the familiar places of childhood that are gone forever, and am now thrilled at a whole new world to explore without ever having to get in a car.
Spring is also helping, with the vegetable garden flourishing and my house cows giving fresh milk everyday.
While we heal the land, the land heals us. And, I have rediscovered my dream of abundance in nature, beauty for beauty’s sake, joy in the small things.
