When their dream block came up for sale, they propositioned their nearest and dearest to pool their resources and make it theirs in a co-owning arrangement.
WHEN BROOKE PETERSON AND HER partner, Tai O’Connor, first visited the property they now call home, they felt an instant and powerful connection with it. “Everything about this place resonated with us and who we are,” she says. “It was like finding the thing you had always wanted.” She walked away with tears in her eyes, in awe of how perfect it was.
The place that stole her heart was a ramshackle wooden cabin on a 230-acre block in the bottom of a valley. It’s at the end of a dirt road bordering on a national park in northern New South Wales, surrounded by big eucalypts and rainforest ferns. When they first saw it, there
