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Māori soil sovereignty and wellbeing handbook
187 pages
colour illustrations +
8 cards.
Issued with 8 recipe cards in back pocket. Contents: Frameworks for understanding Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore. Building a rauemi hua parakore for understanding soil health and wellbeing / Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith -- Oneone Ora, Tangata ora: soils and Māori health and wellbeing / Garth Harmsworth -- Māori soil sovereignty: advocating for the rights of our ancestral soils / Jessica Hutchings -- Nāku koe i whāngai (It was I that brought you up) / Nick Roskruge -- Oneone Ora, Tangata Ora: Maori soil heroes. A vision for soil and food-growing with Maanu Paul / Kiri Reihana Spraggs -- Ngāhuia Lena: kaitiaki of Moroiti / Teina Boasa-Dean and Ruth Nesi Bryce-Hare -- Te wharekura o Maniapoto: kura ā-iwi -- educating the community / Yvonee Taura -- Ruia Ngā Purapura: sowing the seeds / Antoine Coffin -- Whare uku: living in a home made of Papatūānuku / Helen Potter -- Wellbeing through homeopathy / Jo Smith -- Pounamu among the rocks: Papatūānuku Kōkiri Marae / Jo Smith -- Tātai tangata ki te whenua / Kiri Reihana Spraggs -- Ko te kai he Rongoā, ko te Rongoā he kai: a kōrero about kai, motherhood, soil and wellbeing / Gretta Carney with Jo Smith -- Author profiles.
Summary: 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 Maori Soil Sovereignty and Wellbeing Handbook shines a light on Māori 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 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 Maori organics framework as a means for understanding these wide-ranging, diverse and interwoven relationships with soil.