Hua Parakore
Soil Health Wānanga

Elevating the Mana of Hineahuone

Hua Parakore
Soil Health Wānanga

Elevating the Mana of Hineahuone

Through collective learning, building relationships and the sharing of local knowledge, our focus is to help you leave with greater confidence to apply hua parakore approaches in your own māra, support healthy soils, healthy kai and the wellbeing of whānau, whenua and future generations.

Join us for a very special Hua Parakore Soil Health Wānanga, led by hua parakore food grower
Dr. Jessica Hutchings of Papawhakaritorito Trust.

$40

Two-day attendance

(including kai and a resource kete)

Saturday 2 May 10am-4pm & Sunday 3 May 10am-3pm

Innermost Gardens, Mt Victoria,
Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Spaces are limited to just 35 participants. Register your interest by clicking the button below and completing our Expression of Interest form.

Click here to register your interest

In this two-day wānanga, you'll get to:

Reconnect and re-member soil as an ancestor - as Hineahuone.

Explore how hua parakore supports soil health beyond productivity by focusing on balance, vitality and intergenerational care.

Learn the six key hua parakore principles and how these inform nurturing soils without synthetic inputs.

Understand how to observe environmental signs and work in alignment with natural and seasonal cycles.

Reflect on your own relationships with soil and place.

Understand how hua parakore can be applied within marae, community and whenua-based contexts to support seed, soil and food sovereignty.

For this kaupapa, you'll learn to engage deeply with Indigenous understandings of soil health, grounded in hua parakore.

Hua parakore is a kaupapa Māori framework for food systems, developed by Te Waka Kai Ora and based on tikanga, mātauranga Māori, and developing respectful relationships with whenua, wai, atua and all living systems.

At its heart is a holistic understanding of soil as a living entity - as our ancestor, Hineahuone - embedded within whakapapa and collective responsibility.

By weaving kōrero, practical learning and reflective discussion, and creating a kaupapa Māori space to reconnect with Indigenous knowledge systems, we'll support you to learn their relevance in contemporary soil and food practices.

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