Our story so far …
our beginning
Jagera eco community started when our neighbours, Pete Cuming and Eshana Bragg, got a knock on the door from the owner of the land who wanted to sell it. The 5 acres of land on the very edge of town had been a cleared paddock up to the 1970’s, then got overgrown with weeds and some rainforest trees. Pete and Eshana had long dreamed of being part of a land-based community of earth carers and cultural creatives, and as sustainability professionals they have designed ecovillages and taught ecovillage design for other people. But the opportunity had not arisen so close to home … until that knock on the door in 2013!
“A happy and healthy community is not a fairytale. All you need is a seed.”
— NADIA Shabazz, FOUNDER of PROJECT SPROUT
They invited friends and colleagues to invest in the project, and a bunch of “seed investors” and “land bankers” were first up to put money down to help buy the land and pay for all the background studies, planning and design needed to get it through the Development Approval process. So, that’s us. On 26 June 2018, with support from the wider community and like-minded Councillors, we got approval to go ahead. Yahoo!
As a “seedling” community, we are now reaching out to find other folk who want to co-create a beautiful, caring, inspirational and nature-based lifestyle … could that be you?
We are currently raising funds to construct our shared infrastructure, so we can move on to the land and start to build our homes. Would you like to invest?
our mission
The ecological footprint of the typical Australian lifestyle is quite literally “costing the Earth” and stealing from our future generations. At Jagera, we believe that we each need to “do our bit” to reduce resource use and our impacts on climate change, and that we can do this in a creative, collaborative, mutually supportive, socially just, and joyful way. We are co-creating a sustainable and regenerative lifestyle in symbiosis with each other and the natural systems of which we are a part. In a practical sense, we aim to develop and live on 11 eco-household lots, within a Community Title, with the impact of only 2 conventional households.