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 WellbeingBy Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith

Oneone Ora, Tangata Ora: Soils and Maori Health and WellbeingBy Garth Harmsworth

Maori Soil Sovereignty: Advocating for the Rights of Our Ancestral SoilsBy Jessica Hutchings

Naku Koe i Whangai (It was I that brought you up)By Nick Roskruge

A Vision for Soil and Food-Growing with Maanu PaulBy Kiri Reihana Spraggs

Ngahuia Lena: Kaitiaki of MoroitiBy Teina Boasa-Dean and Ruth Nesi Bryce-Hare

Te Wharekura o Maniapoto: Kura a-Iwi Educating the CommunityBy Yvonne Taura

Ruia Nga Purapura: Sowing the SeedsBy Antoine Coffin

Whare Uku: Living in a Home Made of PapatuanukuBy Helen Potter

Wellbeing Through HomeopathyBy Jo Smith

Pounamu Among the Rocks: Papatuanuku Kokiri MaraeBy Jo Smith

Tatai Tangata ki te WhenuaBy Kiri Reihana Spraggs

Ko te Kai he Rongoa, ko te Rongoa he Kai: A Korero About Kai, Motherhood, Soil and WellbeingBy Gretta Carney with Jo Smith

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