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!

Microscopic Life in the Maara

Biochar is a fine-grained, stable, carbon-rich charcoal substance made through pyrolysis. Organic materials like wood chips or forestry slash are heated between 350°C and 700°C in a process that limits or completely excludes oxygen.We have found we can make biochar in an old bathtub! With the flame looping and not pulling in oxygen, the material […]

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Koanga

One of the joys of the maara is the buzz about the place as the warmer longer days arrive and people come help out. Wednesday mornings (9.30 am-11.30 am) have a generous crew who may or may not turn up as they wish, you can do a bit of mahi maara without too much pressure! […]

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