New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Our Own Little Utopia

When Jasmine Brown wakes in the morning to her children running in calling out “Mōrena” (morning), all feels right in the world.

On her Āwhitu Peninsula village, four generations of her whānau, including husband Pineamine, 29, her children, seven siblings, parents and grandparents are all living harmoniously on their shared land.

Together they homeschool, grow their own food, raise animals and turn to nature for medicinal remedies in a bid to reconnect to a more

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