Rongoā for the Land – School Journal Level 4 November 2020

Restoring the whenua on the Māhia Peninsula. Taipōrutu is a sheep and cattle farm on the Māhia Peninsula. The land has been in the same whānau for twenty generations. It was once covered in native bush: tī kōuka, mānuka, rewarewa, tītoki, kahikatea, nīkau, and kawakawa. These species ensured the health of the land and the health of its people – but then they were cleared for farming. A few years ago, the family who owns Taipōrutu came up with a plan to restore their whenua. They called the plan Ahikāroa.

NZ History, environment, healing, history, indigenous medicine, kaitiakitanga, land, mana whenua, medicine, native species, rongoā, tradition, wellbeing, whanau, whenua