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Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore: A Māori Soil Sovereignty and Wellbeing Handbook
Soil health and security are key components of our wellbeing. Even so, soil is faced with many environmental challenges under the current iteration of capitalism. A paradigm shift is needed to encourage care for this resource. In te ao Māori, soil is taonga. It is also whanaunga – it holds ancestral connections and is the root of tūrangawaewae and whakapapa. It is the source of shelter, kai and manaakitanga.
Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore: A Māori Soil Sovereignty and Wellbeing Handbook shines a light on Māori relationships with soil, as well as the connection between soil and food security, and frames these links within the wider discourse of tino rangatiratanga from a variety of Māori perspectives. Through a range of essays, profiles and recipes, it seeks to promote wellbeing and elevate the mana of the soil by drawing on the hua parakore Māori organics framework as a means for understanding these wide-ranging, diverse and interwoven relationships with soil.
Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore: A Māori Soil Sovereignty and Wellbeing Handbook shines a light on Māori relationships with soil, as well as the connection between soil and food security, and frames these links within the wider discourse of tino rangatiratanga from a variety of Māori perspectives. Through a range of essays, profiles and recipes, it seeks to promote wellbeing and elevate the mana of the soil by drawing on the hua parakore Māori organics framework as a means for understanding these wide-ranging, diverse and interwoven relationships with soil.
187 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2020
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March 10, 2024
Review published in Organic NZ Jan/Feb 2021
This thought-provoking and inspirational multi-authored book focuses on Māori relationships with the taonga that is the soil. It begins by looking at the hua parakore nature-based knowledge system developed by Te Waka Kai Ora (the Māori organics authority) over the three years to 2011. This insight into Māori values, understandings and relationships with the soil is then expanded on in the 12 chapters that follow.
Māori have built up a deep knowledge of soils, as shown by the 60+ names for different types of soil in te reo Māori, in a chapter by Nick Roskruge. There’s a chapter about long-time organic grower Maanu Paul, and about Tūhoe kuia Ngāhuia Lena Hare, showing her absolute love for soil organisms. Last issue Organic NZ published an extract from the chapter about Te Wharekura Maniapoto, where the students learn about growing their own kai as part of their community.
Tucked in at the back of the book are some recipe cards with delicious healthy kai suggestions by Gretta Carney.
Highly recommended.
This thought-provoking and inspirational multi-authored book focuses on Māori relationships with the taonga that is the soil. It begins by looking at the hua parakore nature-based knowledge system developed by Te Waka Kai Ora (the Māori organics authority) over the three years to 2011. This insight into Māori values, understandings and relationships with the soil is then expanded on in the 12 chapters that follow.
Māori have built up a deep knowledge of soils, as shown by the 60+ names for different types of soil in te reo Māori, in a chapter by Nick Roskruge. There’s a chapter about long-time organic grower Maanu Paul, and about Tūhoe kuia Ngāhuia Lena Hare, showing her absolute love for soil organisms. Last issue Organic NZ published an extract from the chapter about Te Wharekura Maniapoto, where the students learn about growing their own kai as part of their community.
Tucked in at the back of the book are some recipe cards with delicious healthy kai suggestions by Gretta Carney.
Highly recommended.
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