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Panelist: 

• Rob Small – Pourewa Tribal Gardens and Growing Point

This presentation explores how matauranga Māori and tikanga can be expressed in a garden that meets the contemporary needs of Ngati Whatua Orakei and their whanau. It explores the creation of soils and garden design to meet an expression of Mauri, Wairua and whakapapa from te Ao Māori perspective.
Feeding the family and making transitions to individual gardening and a journey from Fast food to slow food.
This is all in the context of Te Waka Kai Ora perspective of Hua parakore

• Lani Rotzler-Purewa - Common Unity and  Cuzies in the Mara

Relearning and reigniting within us the skills to feed our communities, save seed and store kai, not just as a nessecity for our future, but as an assertion of mana motuhake, and to create space to share the healing we expecience from connection to soil. 

• Tina Walker Ferguson – Kai Cycle Urban Food Farm

Tina will kōrero about doing mahi māra in an urban setting, including working with Kaicycle (an urban food sovereignty and composting project) and Te Toi Mahana (local social housing provider) to set up a Māra Kai, kōhanga tupu at social housing in central Wellington alongside tenants and the wider community to facilitating wānanga and whenua time for whānau Māori living in the city. Hua Parakore principles, whanaungatanga and honouring kōrero of the whenua are central to all of the mahi Tina connects to. 

 

• Gretta Carney – Hāpi Market Garden and Cafe 

Shared learnings from our Hapī experience of developing a small commercial Maara Kai that supplies our cafe and artisan food production enterprise. 

 

• Sarah Hopkinson – Tangata Tiriti -and allyship in Hua Parakore

Sarah will reflect on being tangata tiriti in the Hua Parakore programme and ways that she can be “right-sized” in kaupapa Māori spaces. She will talk about some of the ideas that have been informing her and some of the lessons that she has learnt along the way. 
 

Chaired by Pounamu Skelton