MĀORILAND MAARA
& KAI COLLECTIVE

OUR MAARA TEAM

Elishka Graham & Tania Hakaraia

Māoriland is committed to

-Kaitiakitanga – Being good caretakers
-Para Kore – Zero Waste
-Tikanga Māori – practices to achieve ecological sustainability
-Hauora – Better kai means better health
-Mana motuhake – Food sovereignty `

Nau mai Haere mai…
Join us in the maara!

Maara Noticeboard

For all your community notices and handy hints in the garden!

BRING YOUR COMPOST TO US

KAIBOSH

Māoriland has partnered with Kaibosh to share quality surplus food that would otherwise have gone to landfill with our community.

One day every week we set up outside Toi Matarau Gallery. We try to ensure everyone can get a little something, and at times when people need extra we can usually help. This whole event depends on manaakitanga and engaging in respectful, sharing and caring way.

SLUG AND SNAIL TRAP

This little contraption, filled with beer, in every bed has changed my gardening life, check out the photos of my slug and snail traps and I totally recommend you make your own!

Safe from slugs and snails, tomatoes and cucumbers are taking up space in the kitchen while we wait for the soil to warm up, not long now and I will have the dining table back.

ELISKHA'S PARSLEY PESTO
Pesto can be made from any green, but here’s Elishka’s Parsley Pesto Recipe…

Parsley 2 packed cups roughly

Chopped Cashews 3/4 cup (can substitute with any seeds or nuts you have)

Oil 3/4 cup (I strongly prefer cold pressed olive oil)

Grated rind half lemon

Salt and Pepper to taste (more is good!)

Mix well and enjoy with bread or crackers!

Koanga in the Maara

Kōwhai are flowering! Plum and peach are blossoming at home, and citrus are pumping. I love this time of the year in the maara kai, at home and at Māoriland. Our Māoriland seedlings and onions are growing, strawberries are blossoming, and bees are buzzing madly around the rosemary. Cuttings of sage, geranium and rosemary simply […]

Matariki in the Maara

In the Māoriland Maara it is Matariki. The Matariki holiday made official and consequential busy-ness contrasts with the quiet grounding of winter in the maara, a slow time of reflection and planning. Tania dreamed up a lovely community ‘whanau kai’ shared lunch event we held yesterday, a Sunday afternoon. Whanau traditions walked in the door, with scones wrapped […]

Ngahuru in the Maara

Corn Harvest! Late in 2022 I planted corn, placing some in the centre row of the long bed by the Māoriland Hub back door, a reliably visible and busy spot during film festivals. Knowing that corn is culturally significant, a taonga, for our Indigenous Turtle Island friends, I wanted it to be prominent and visible. […]

April in the Maara

Keeping on top of regular planting is keeping me busy in the maara with the seedlings all requiring attention and somewhere to grow i.e. ongoing transplantation! Charlie and I planted the garlic gifted by Raureka Cook and are feeling optimistic…garlic is rumoured to be easy to grow the first year you ever put it in, […]

MĀORILAND MAARA & KAI COLLECTIVE