Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore - A Maori Soil Sovereignty and Wellbeing Handbook
Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore - A Maori 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 Maori, soil is taonga. It is also whanaunga - it holds ancestral connections and is the root of turangawaewae and whakapapa. It is the source of shelter, kai and manaakitanga.
Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore: A Maori Soil Sovereignty and Wellbeing Handbook shines a light on Maori relationships with soil, as well as the connections between soil and food security, and frames these links within the wider discourse of tino rangatiratanga from a variety of Maori 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 Maori organics framework as a means for understanding these wide-ranging, diverse and interwoven relationships with soil.
Featuring:
Building a Rauemi Hua Parakore for Understanding Soil Health and Wellbeing
By Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith
Oneone Ora, Tangata Ora: Soils and Māori Health and Wellbeing
By Garth Harmsworth
Māori Soil Sovereignty: Advocating for the Rights of Our Ancestral Soils
By Jessica Hutchings
Nāku Koe i Whāngai (It was I that brought you up)
By Nick Roskruge
A Vision for Soil and Food-Growing with Maanu Paul
By Kiri Reihana Spraggs
Ngāhuia Lena: Kaitiaki of Moroiti
By Teina Boasa-Dean and Ruth Nesi Bryce-Hare
Te Wharekura o Maniapoto: Kura ā-Iwi – Educating the Community
By Yvonne Taura
Ruia Ngā Purapura: Sowing the Seeds
By Antoine Coffin
Whare Uku: Living in a Home Made of Papatūānuku
By Helen Potter
Wellbeing Through Homeopathy
By Jo Smith
Pounamu Among the Rocks: Papatūānuku Kōkiri Marae
By Jo Smith
Tātai Tangata ki te Whenua
By Kiri Reihana Spraggs
Ko te Kai he Rongoā, ko te Rongoā he Kai: A Kōrero About Kai, Motherhood, Soil and Wellbeing with Recipe cards
By Gretta Carney with Jo Smith