Papawhakaritorito Charitable Trust

Weekends are for getting into the māra. By spending the time now, you will have strong cropsn through Koanga (Spring).

Here’s a few tips to support your māra mahi this weekend.
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We can make a real difference to the health of te Taiao by being active kaitiaki in our own rohe or supporting mana whenua led projects that exercise their kaitiakitanga.

The new research we’ve just completed looks at how kaitiakitanga and kaitiaki-led monitoring and reporting systems can lead to better biodiversity outcomes.

Te Mātai i te Taiao was a two-year research project, in collaboration with and .

One of the kaitiaki we spoke to for a case study is Dion Pou (Ngā Puhi). Dion is a restoration ecologist, working with whānau and community groups to restore the local habitats of Te Atatū Peninsula in Tāmaki Makaurau.

His mission is to connect mātāwaka whānau (urban Māori) to both te taiao and mātauranga (Māori knowledge) in ways that are regenerative for whenua, awa, moana and tangata.

Pictured is Dion conducting a Marine Metre Squared session with Te Atatū Intermediate & Amber Aratema.

Read the summary sheet here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/kajabi-storefronts-production/file-uploads/sites/2147595858/themes/2151315005/downloads/7587e4e-4716-063a-f32-0fe5c5e11f5_Dion_Pou_and_Te_Tatai_FINAL.pdf

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Would you like to win a prize pack and get the latest on kaupapa Māori research and practices that connect you to the soil?

🌱 We are getting ready to send out our next monthly newsletter and we want to invite you to join our community.

🌱 If you subscribe this week, you’ll go in the draw to win a bunch of products and merch from the Trust.

➕ You’ll receive monthly updates about the latest research we’re releasing, seed, soil and kai sovereignty issues in Aotearoa and beyond and a connection to other kaupapa we are championing.

👉 Go to www.papawhakaritorito.com to be inspired to put your hands in the soil, every day.

🌼 Spring is just around the corner, making this a great time to start thinking about your māra.

🌼 Join us for an online course to learn the basics of how to grow a Hua Parakore garden that produces lots of nourishing, clean kai.

🌼 Over six, video-based modules, you’ll learn all the skills you need to get your māra going – from where to put your garden to which veggis to grow easily to how to compost and even make a worm farm.

🌼 We’ve created this course, based on Jessica's 20 years of experience in growing with Hua Parakore
(Māori organics).

🌼 Reduce your food bills and take care of your whānau with fresh, nutritious kai, free from nasty chemicals.

Sign up now for an abundant Spring māra ➡️ https://www.papawhakaritorito.com/sign-up-1

Growing Clean Kai Online Course Sign Up Join our six-week Indigenous-led online gardening course to learn all the basics about how to start your māra. From growing veggies to composting to saving seeds and creating healthy soils. Start your course today and learn at your own pace.

“Eating food from our cultural landscape, from Papatūānuku, Hineahuone, Tangaroa, and Tāne Mahuta- it is about reconnecting with the environment, and this is what Matariki is all about.” - Dr. Jessica Hutchings with for a Matariki special interview.

Click the link below to listen to the inspirational kōrero from Jess.

In the interview, you will learn about what Matariki means for Papawhakaritorito Trust and the power of Indigenous wisdom and knowledge through Hua Parakore, a kaupapa Māori (Indigenous) system and framework for growing kai (product and food)) developed by .waka.kai.ora.aotearoa (National Maori Organics).

Link here: https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018944678

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Hauhake tū, ka tō Matariki

Lifting of the crops begins when Pleiades sets.

This whakataukī reminds us that Matariki teaches us how to work with te Taiao and soon we'll be feasting on all the nourishing hua parakore goodness we've been growing in our māra over the last few months.

To share more insights into gardening and Māori food sovereignty, we're delighted that our founder Jessica Hutchings will be live on Breakfast this morning and on the Matariki special with RNZ on Saturday at 10.20am sharing what Matariki means to us. Tune in!

Our soil has a wairua, infused by the energies of Hineahuone.

We are on the threshold of genetic engineering potentially being unleashed in Aotearoa and it’s why we all must do whatever it takes to protect the biome of our soil.

As Matariki rises later this week, it is a reminder to all of us to get our hands in the soil and do what we can to protect Papatūānuku.
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Ka nui te mihi ki a koutou, thanks to all who turned up to stand for the rise of seed, soil and kai sovereignty in Aotearoa.

Remember, every seed we save and every seed we plant is an act of resistance.

Head to our website to check out all the photos from the event!
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Meet one of our most popular pieces of merch, our tote bag!

🌱 Our tote bag is very practical, designed to be used all year round, and is the perfect purchase to support you and your whānau on their māra kai journey.

🌱Head to our Papawhakaritorito online to shop local to support our social enterprise vision of uplifting Māori soil sovereignty and decolonising our food systems.

🌱Click the link in our bio to purchase

We still love your positive feedback from He Whenua Rongo, and what better way to reflect than sharing some of our favourite māra moments.

Comment below and share your photos with us - we would love to see your māra. You’ll go to the draw to win a beautiful Papawhakaritorito prize pack.
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Nō reira! Congratulations to our May E-news competitions, Gemma and Angie!

We will be sending your beautiful prizes shortly.

Do you want to go in the draw to win some prizes from us? Click the link in our bio and subscribe to our E-news.
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Have you watched this yet? A searing talk from Dr Vandana Shiva from Navdanya a few months ago. Listen to capitalist patriarchy being critiqued, the role of colonisation in food and farming and the power of nature.

Dr Vandana Shiva's speech and Q&A at He Whenua Rongo 2024 Dr Vandana Shiva of Navdanya International speaks on day one at He Whenua Rongo - Soil and Food Sovereignty Symposium in Tāmaki Makaurau. Day one looked at t...

Join us tomorrow morning NZ time to celebrate World Environment Day with the Earthed community, it’s an early one but will be worth it 🌺💚🌺

🌍 Generation Restoration: Three Pathways to Reconnect with Nature 🌿

Join us online for World Environment Day! Hear from nature leaders , Dr. Jessica Hutchings of , and of on how to restore our planet. 🌱✨

🗓️ 5 June 2024
🕖 7-8 PM BST

Comment “🌱” below to join!

in partnership with for

Join us tomorrow morning, its an early one but well worth it -talking about regeneration and restoration alongside amazing teachers from the Earthed community earthed.co

Join us online for World Environment Day! Hear from nature leaders , Jessica Hutchings of , and of on how to restore our planet. 🌱✨

Looking forward to this webinar tonight, am honoured to be invited to share korero from Aotearoa

Nau mai haere mai - please join us for this webinar on Biodiversity Day 21 May hosted by Navdanya International "Biodiversity is Life: Rights of Nature vs Financialisation of Nature". Jessica Hutchings from Papapwhakaritorito Trust is honoured to be joining leading international thinkers to share critique from the homelands of Aotearoa about returning to right relationships with nature.

Webinar for International Day for Biodiversity – Biodiversity is Life: Rights of Nature vs Financialisation of Nature Date and time: Tues, 21st May 2024 at 8:30pm IST/ 5 pm CEST/ 11 am EDT Featuring : Dr. Vandana Shiva – Navdanya International Dr. Jessica Hutchings – Papawhakarirtorito Trust, New Zeala…

“No matter how big or small, a step forward is a movement towards a better future,” says Annette Sykes from

We want the future to be an Indigenous one. One that makes space for Indigenous ways of knowing and doing. This will ensure the health of all people and Papatūānuku.


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We have been attending and presenting at the ‘Living Breath - Indigenous Food Sovereignty conference’ for the last 2 days held on the lands and waters of the Coast Salish peoples at University of Washington. Thank you Dr Charlotte Cote and Tia Yazzie and all the Indigenous women involved in hosting such an incredible event. It was an honour to connect across our waters to rebuild our indigenous foodways.

Was great to hear reflections from the Rangatahi you brought to Aotearoa last month on how they experienced Māori food sovereignty. What stood out was their reflections of manaakitanga and aroha at the heart of Maori food systems as well as our koha or gifting economies.

We have learnt so much alongside you at this conference over the last two days, the ancient practices of weaving dating back 4000 years, your cockle baskets, fishing nets made of nettles and the need to be quite to listen to the plants like our ancestors did.

Thank you for nourishing our heart, minds, spirit and bodies we look forward to hosting you at Papawhakaritorito when you return to Aotearoa next year and to bringing rangatahi back with us to this conference in the future. Nā te aroha 🙏🏽💚🙌🏾

“The fixed corporation entity is inert. It’s unchanging, and that is a huge threat to diversity.”

Inspiration from during her kōrero at
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Ka mau te wehi, congratulations koutou, we love all you do

We’re feeling grateful for all the māra memories and connections made at

Day three out at focused on Hua Parakore. Hosted by .waka.kai.ora.aotearoa, we got a chance to meet the growers who are on their road to verification. It was also a chance to get out in the magic māra – love those bananas!

Do you spot yourself in any of the day three photos? Comment, like and follow us to keep up to date with more content from He Whenua Rongo.

As always an epic korero from Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey, if you haven’t watched this or heard her at the conference I highly recommend it. Her analysis and clear explanation around the impacts of free trade for Maori and Papatuanuku and articulate and clear. While we are not against free trade we must weight the benefits that get dangled in front of us vs. the harm they create globally - as Jane says, Free Trade is about Free for the corporations to plunder nature and knowledge for unfettered growth.

Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey's speech at He Whenua Rongo 2024 Ngā Toki Whakarururanga pūkenga Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey speaks on day one at He Whenua Rongo - Soil and Food Sovereignty Symposium in Tāmaki Makaurau ...

Annette Sykes' speech at He Whenua Rongo 2024 Ngā Toki Whakarururanga pūkenga Donna Kerridge speaks on day one at He Whenua Rongo - Soil and Food Sovereignty Symposium in Tāmaki Makaurau on April 11, 202...

Two weeks on from He Whenua Rongo and so much gratitude for Vandana Shiva from Navdanya for joining us He Whenua Rongo, an Indigenous seed, soil and food sovereignty symposium. Thank you for sharing two korero with us over the first two days. For many of us this was the absolute highlight of the symposium to not only be in her presence but to also have the benefit of hearing her sharp critique of capitialist patriarchy. The amazing Mariana Te Rangi bringing her into the marae shortly after she lands from India and joins us off the plane after a cuppa at home with Mum Shanti Narendra Patel and whānau to reground. Thank you to all who helped to manaaki Dr Shiva while she was here and for the outpouring of love that was felt at the hui for her.

Day two of , brought together over 300+ farmers, growers, scientists, activists, local food producers, researchers, writers and storytellers from across Aotearoa and around the globe to gather in one sacred place, Marae.

We had the great honour of hearing the stories and legacies of the Onedia Nation, who had travelled from upstate New York and Wisconsin in North America. Our incredible speakers openly shared their emotionally charged stories of regaining lost corn seeds, re-igniting language and the fight to keep the home fires of their traditions alive. We were humbled by the long, dedicated journey they are on to rebuild their communities, one seed at a time.

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One of the great opportunities at was to share seeds, kai and kōrero together. Learning together like this creates inspiration. Ngā mihi to all our stall holders and for holding this space for our guests.

Want to see more images and video from the event? Stay tuned as we will be uploading more images and video to the Trust’s website next week.

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Day one of brought inspiration, strength and hope for a future for everyone, led by Indigenous people. When we focus on Papatūānuku, the health of our natural world and all people, and move away from the individualist and paternalist colonist mindset, we create energy that leads to systems change. As Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey from stated, “staying informed is resistance”. By working together and learning from each other, we can continue the legacy of resistance and change that started with our tupuna.

Ngā mihi to for the updated illustration!

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Going live in an hour...

🌏 At 9.30pmNZT, join me for a special IG Live with the global .co crew
to kōrero about Māori food and
soil sovereignty.

🌏 If you like what you hear, you can sign up on their platform to check out the new course the Trust and I have launched
with them.

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