Para Kore

E Kai Māori ki Tokomaru Bay In early October, a three-day ‘E Kai Māori’ wānanga - led by Matua Joe McLeod and supported by Para Kore - took place at Pakirikiri Marae in Tokomaru Bay. 💚 Whānau who attended learnt the names and how to identify rākau Māori and introduced plants, and what different combinations of leaves to use when cooking meat, fish, scallops, squid and vegetables. 🍠 E Kai Māori is an opportunity to decolonise our puku, connect to our whakapapa by eating from our traditional landscapes and raise the inherent mana of our kai. ✨ Attendees enjoyed the kai reka, left-overs were taken home, food waste went to the pigs, and the rourou kai made from harakeke were composted - hei aha te moumou kai! 🤲🏽

If you want to appreciate your kākahu more - try sew something. If you want to appreciate your kai more - try grow something. 💚

We are looking for a Project Lead. 🚨 Kia ora LinkedIn whānau! We are seeking expressions of interest for an experienced Project Lead to guide an exciting 2-year climate action project in partnership with iwi. 🤝🏽 This is a fantastic opportunity for someone passionate about climate action who understands the value of investing in iwi and Māori leadership to drive positive climate resilience and action. 🌱 Key details: •Part-time role (flexible hours) •Focused on partnering with iwi, and hapū •Fixed term for 21 months (nearly two years) If you know someone with the passion, skills, and experience to lead this kaupapa, tag them below. If this sounds like a project leadership opportunity for you, please send your expression of interest to: admin@parakore.maori.nz Ngā mihi ✨

Calling our Murihiku whānau! 🚨 We have a two-week online 'Mana tō te Kai' programme starting on October 21. Join us, and other whānau as we Journey through the whakapapa and systems of kai, learn useful tips, reduce waste, save more kai and money, and make a plan to raise the inherent mana of kai. He Mana tō te Kai, re-indigenising our food systems. Karawhiua ✨ Register here - https://lnkd.in/g4hEDAdZ

Ngā mihi for the tautoko, Climate Action Aotearoa! 🤝🏽

He Kāhui Mano- Tribal Summit is happening next week! This is a special event for indigenous communities to reimagine and redefine our future through a community-led, kaupapa-driven circular economy. “Join us at the intersection of climate change, culture, and community to explore how we, as indigenous communities, can tackle community-level challenges and contribute to global change.” Writes the Rautāpatu Foundation. Get tickets here - https://lnkd.in/g-yNJXDw

A timely reminder that we are not apart from te taiao, we are a part of te taiao. Ko au ko te taiao, ko te taiao ko au. 🌿

The Raahui Pookeka Community Compost Hub - hosted by Matawhaanui Trust onsite at the Kaahui Tuuwaa Maara Kai - is the second compost hub to be established in the Waikato District. 👏🏾 It was set up on the last day of April this year. Here we are on the first week of August turning the first box into the second. 🌱 We can already see the process of new soil being made before our very eyes. 🤩 We were so pleased to have tamariki from Huntly Primary School come along this day to join us in the learning, and while we there, Kimihia School arrived to add their food waste to the mix, which they are now doing weekly. ⚡️ The finished product will be going into the maara kai to feed whānau in Raahui Pookeka Huntly. 💚

The Te Kauwhata Community Compost Hub - one year on from its establishment - recently harvested an abundance of nutrient rich compost and applied it both to their school gardens and to the Te Kauwhata Community Gardens across the road. 🌱 This is a circular, regenerative solution in action, using the valuable resource of food waste from Te Kauwhata Primary School and the neighbouring community to help grow more food for the community. 🥕 Pictured here are Rhonda Irvine, the Compost Hub Manager, Jacqui Church, mayor of Waikato District (digging in!) and the fabulous kids at Te Kauwhata Primary, whose dedicated work has helped make this project such a success.💚

Last week was conservation week, and in amongst the chaos, we missed it. But we know as tāngata whenua, every week is conservation week. We want to mihi to all of our conservation groups doing the mahi on the ground - often with skeleton crew and a skeleton budget. With that being said, many of our beautiful ngāhere are saturated with pests. Pests such as rats, stoats, wild cats, goats, deer and possums drastically reduce our native wildlife populations, threaten forest rejuvenation and make our forests vulnerable to land slips. So, in recognition of conservation week Para Kore would like to encourage you to volunteer your services. If you can, you should; 🐀 Volunteer to check / reset the trap line on your local bush walk, 🌱 Get amongst native tree and shrub plantings in your area, 🐈 Be responsible pet owners. Keep them inside or on a leash. 💲Donate to your local conservation group. Do it for the manu. For the mauri tau. For your mokopuna. Shout out to the trap setters, tree planters, grant application filler-outters, wānanga facilitators and cuppa tea makers. You make the world turn. 💚