Meretini Bennett-Huxtable prepares her soil after the long winter using the Maramataka, the Māori lunar calendar as her guide.
Ricco Tito is new to gardening but he’s jumped in the deep end planting 3000 Kūmara seedlings for the community.
Three generations of wāhine Māori gardeners from the Māipi whānau, each bring a different life story, a different approach, but all travel on the same waka.
Kahutane and Whitney started their garden because they had to. Their food forest grew into a place that sustained, and helped them to heal.
The gardens of Parihaka were once huge, feeding the community and beyond. The māra kai is flourishing once more, and food is just one of the gardens fruits.
Plot by plot Raihania is indigenising the Wairarapa farm he grew up on, feeding the whānau and hapori in a sustainable way.
Aunty Hanui’s community garden is famous in Hastings. Every morning she’s up and in the garden, as she has been all her life.
Levi Makoare loves his Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei community, the taiao, the bush, bees, gardening, and the lessons gardening has given him raising his own whānau.