17 May 2024

Sowing the seed for Māori to grow food

From Country Life, 7:27 pm on 17 May 2024

It's early autumn and we're heading to a tunnel house - heaving with late harvest tomatoes and a flourishing vine.

It's part of a māra where whānau are getting their hands in the soil and finding out how to grow food in their own backyards with the help of Pounamu Skelton.

Pounamu Skelton in the tunnel house at the māra where she holds wananga for people learning to grow their own food

The tunnel house at the māra has produced a great crop of tomatoes this season Photo: RNZ/Sally Round