“The whole back yard would be planted, my dad would plant fruit trees and we had the best nectarines and golden queen peaches and of course the by-product of living like this is really good strong whānau relationships and what it does, it builds your spirit because for me as a Māori, you know a lot of people say it’s a final poverty but it’s a spiritual poverty that really gets us down, gets anybody down to be honest.” He says he was part of the rural-urban drift in the 1960s. This kind of thinking has turbo-charged people into this way of life, Terei says. “Now people are thinking no, my wealth is not going to be completely measured by what I’ve accumulated and it’s measured about my standard of living, what I can give my tamariki, just building resilience, patience within kids is sometimes worth more than a qualification.” Most people on the show believed in the longterm this way of life would be better for them and better for their whānau. People have a range of ways of going off the grid they’re converting agitator washing machines, looking into wind turbines or using solar to power their homes. “It’s that typical number 8 wire, ingenuity, New Zealand spirit that you see when you visit these people.”
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