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!

Spring in the Maara

Elishka updates us on whats been happening in the Māoriland Maara this Spring…

Hereturi-koka in the Maara

Hereturi-koka (August) is an eager moment of anticipation in the maara. We have been planning toward a bountiful summer garden full of kai and flowers, we’re seed sowing and bulb planting to this end. We have created cloches out of Toi Matarau gallery bubble wrap cast-offs and begun celebrating the joyous seedlings bursting into life in […]

Taiao Tuesday; Environmental Films at MFF2020

Friday 20 March, 11 amThe Civic Theatre Book tickets Wawa No Cidal The Taipei Film Festival audience award-winner revolves around the struggle of an Indigenous family resisting property developers encroaching on their ancestral land. Inspired by a true story, a woman returns home after years away from her village to find it overdeveloped and heavily […]

Caring for Papatūānuku at Māoriland Film Festival

Well, we scrubbed and we washed and laughed and we sighed but we did it! Caring for our earth is a collective effort. Thanks to our combined commitment during the MFF 2018 together we diverted 244kgs of waste from the landfill! Tu meke e hoa mā! We buried and composted our serve ware and food waste returning as […]

MĀORILAND MAARA & KAI COLLECTIVE