Aweko Kai

THIS IS NOW A MIXED DELIVERY OF ONLINE AND IN PERSON COURSE! YOU CAN LEARN ANYWHERE IN AOTEAROA!

More spaces are still free for your journey to food security and sovereignty with our FREE course.
Enrolments are now open to join me in the maara for 2026 as we navigate steps towards your kai sovereignty journey!
Kai Oranga Level 3 in Otautahi/Christchurch Enrolments Now Open!
Step into the next chapter of your kai sovereignty and hauora journey guided by the 6 principles of Hua Parakore.
🌱 Advance your kai growing skills,
🌱 Grow toxin free pure kai,
🌱 Make steps towards circular systems on your whenua (seed saving, water harvesting and nutrient cycling)
🌱 Build real, hands-on capability for you, your whānau and your community (grow abundance that extends to your wider community)
If you’re ready to elevate your practice, now’s the time!
Secure your spot today by heading to the link below:
Kai Oranga (Kaupae Tuatoru) | Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi https://share.google/A77U9jtGuRDUW49AY
- Click 'Enrol'
- Create your Urutauira Account and Log In,
- Click the top left hand corner and select 'Online Enrolment',
- Click Next,
- Select Programme 'Kai Oranga (Kaupae Tuatoru),
- K3 Otautahi/Christchurch - Jade Moana
🔥🌿 Level 3 spaces are limited 🌿🔥
You will need:
- ID (Passport or Birth Certificate, get in touch if you don't have either of these)
- An appropriate device (with the ability to join us via Zoom)
- Access to internet,
- Facebook and/or Messenger Access,
And of course, dedication!
This is a free Level 3 course held by Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi.
40 weeks (this includes 6 weeks break).
Starting 2nd February 2026.

Mixed media sessions carried out via Zoom, in-person, from your home maara space and connecting into community growing spaces.

Kai Oranga (Kaupae Tuatoru) | Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi Kai Oranga food sovereignty and horticulture course level 3

More spaces are still free for your journey to food security and sovereignty with our FREE course.

Enrolments are now open to join me in the maara for 2026 as we navigate steps towards your kai sovereignty journey!
Kai Oranga Level 3 in Otautahi/Christchurch Enrolments Now Open!
Step into the next chapter of your kai sovereignty and hauora journey guided by the 6 principles of Hua Parakore.
🌱 Advance your kai growing skills,
🌱 Grow toxin free pure kai,
🌱 Make steps towards circular systems on your whenua (seed saving, water harvesting and nutrient cycling)
🌱 Build real, hands-on capability for you, your whānau and your community (grow abundance that extends to your wider community)
If you’re ready to elevate your practice, now’s the time!
Secure your spot today by heading to the link below:
Kai Oranga (Kaupae Tuatoru) | Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi https://share.google/A77U9jtGuRDUW49AY
- Click 'Enrol'
- Create your Urutauira Account and Log In,
- Click the top left hand corner and select 'Online Enrolment',
- Click Next,
- Select Programme 'Kai Oranga (Kaupae Tuatoru),
- K3 Otautahi/Christchurch - Jade Moana
🔥🌿 Level 3 spaces are limited 🌿🔥
You will need:
- ID (Passport or Birth Certificate, get in touch if you don't have either of these)
- An appropriate device (with the ability to join us via Zoom)
- Access to internet,
- Facebook and/or Messenger Access,
And of course, dedication!
This is a free Level 3 course held by Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi.
40 weeks (this includes 6 weeks break).
Starting 2nd February 2026.
Mixed media sessions carried out via Zoom, in-person, from your home maara space and connecting into community growing spaces.
I will be holding day sessions to meet with you if you would like to know more over January

Enrolments are now open to join me in the maara for 2026 as we navigate steps towards your kai sovereignty journey!
Kai Oranga Level 3 in Otautahi/Christchurch Enrolments Now Open!

Step into the next chapter of your kai sovereignty and hauora journey guided by the 6 principles of Hua Parakore.
🌱 Advance your kai growing skills,
🌱 Grow toxin free pure kai,
🌱 Make steps towards circular systems on your whenua (seed saving, water harvesting and nutrient cycling)
🌱 Build real, hands-on capability for you, your whānau and your community (grow abundance that extends to your wider community)

If you’re ready to elevate your practice, now’s the time!
Secure your spot today by heading to the link below:
Kai Oranga (Kaupae Tuatoru) | Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi https://share.google/A77U9jtGuRDUW49AY
- Click 'Enrol'
- Create your Urutauira Account and Log In,
- Click the top left hand corner and select 'Online Enrolment',
- Click Next,
- Select Programme 'Kai Oranga (Kaupae Tuatoru),
- K3 Otautahi/Christchurch - Jade Moana
🔥🌿 Level 3 spaces are limited 🌿🔥
You will need:
- ID (Passport or Birth Certificate, get in touch if you don't have either of these)
- An appropriate device (with the ability to join us via Zoom)
- Access to internet,
- Facebook and/or Messenger Access,
And of course, dedication!
This is a free Level 3 course held by Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi.
40 weeks (this includes 6 weeks break).
Starting 2nd February 2026.
Mixed media sessions carried out via Zoom, in-person, from your home maara space and connecting into community growing spaces.
I will be holding day sessions to meet with you if you would like to know more over January

Stunning Kaanga/corn planted over the weekend in our 3 sisters maara. Hokianga corn, Red kuri pumpkin, peas and beans.
This corn gives both red and yellow corn, the pumpkin grows ground level and peas and beans up the corn stalks.

“It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war”.

- Miyamoto Musash.

So much Aroha for this Warrior💜🌱.

We have been busy and absent as we have moved to a new farm over the last few weeks.
My Kai Oranga Tauira- students had noho over the weekend and our wonderful friend Harry from the BHU hosted us where we done a Hauhake-harvest of the last of winter stored veges. The beautiful organic soil was full of life and we harvested and turned some of the leeks, potatoes, carrots into litres of soup to give out to the community. We appreciate you Harry and the BHU for growing kai that feeds our community!

Kai Oranga level 4 is about to start in August, if you want to learn how to grow kai, seedlings, soil and sovereignty sign up! Only a few spaces left. In a world where the whenua is being depleted with chemical use our health can be reconnected to ancient tools and techniques!

Your an amazing Kaiako my darling, a natural teacher, I’m privileged that you embody the realm of Maara kai, I hope I’m a good tauira!lol

Excerpt from my Kai Oranga, level 3 assessment with wananga o awanuiārangi.

- Describe a significant event from first contact with European to the contemporary world that has impacted on rongoa and kai.

I’m currently reading an intriguing book titled “NGĀ MAHI" penned by an Australian born man called "Jason Hartley". In the duration of reading his writings I can tell he is a Christian man, with a non-Christian biased view of spirituality, which is very refreshing. He had an extensive career in Australia being a police officer, and was furthering his career by studying criminology. He was dating a Māori wāhine and had felt the pull to move to Aotearoa alongside his beloved. Before making the move to Aotearoa, he came for a brief visit in relation to his mahi in criminology.

During his stay, his accomodation was at Mt eden prison, one of the old prison wings had been renovated into an accommodation complex for staff. One night as he was sleeping, he had a divine experience where the room he was in lit up, and across from him stood a middle aged man dressed in chiefly attire, there were no audible words exchanged between them, yet through sensations he could hear the chief challenging him about a journey he was to embark on, Jason intuitively knew that this chiefs name was "Mokomoko”. Approximately a year after this visitation from the Māori ancestor, Jason shared the dream to his now wife’s mother who was funnily enough a lecturer in Māori studies. Once he had explained the dream/visitation and ultimately the chiefs name, his wife’s mother knew exactly who was speaking of when he mentioned the name Mokomoko.

Mokomoko was a renowned leader and chief from the iwi “Whakatohia”. In colonial times, due to his profound leadership and non-compliance to British rule, he was framed and arrested as were other rangatira of that time and imprisoned at Mt eden prison, and then eventually hung. What better way to weaken and dismantle a people by the extermination of their impactful rangatira. The tragic irony of all this, is that mt eden prison was part of a mechanism (System) to dismantle the social controls and leadership of Māori, while nowadays the very same prison is used to incarcerate their descendants who are very much the product of too little social control and not enough leadership!

Within the chapters of this book, I read about our ancient “Tohunga Whare Wananga”. A Māori school where ancient knowledge was passed down, skills such as genealogy, astronomy, chants and karakia, also Rongoa and Kai. Which was persecuted by the colonials of that time, to the point the Whare Wananga could only operate underground and out of site, which eventually led to its demise. The Tohunga Suppression Act 1907 was intended to stop people using traditional Māori healing practices which had a supernatural or spiritual element. In a subtle and systemic way, the suppression of this act trickled its way into our holistic way of maintaining wellness, and was overshadowed by western medicine.

Rongoā Māori encompasses herbal remedies, physical therapies and spiritual healing. In early Māori history Tohunga were seen as the earthly medium of the controlling spirits and influenced all aspects of life. Illness was viewed as a symptom of disharmony with nature. If a person was sick, the Tohunga would first determine what imbalance had occurred, before the illness could then be treated both spiritually and physically. Physical healing involving either herbal remedies or the appropriate kai to be administered.

Rongoa Māori Today:

Despite the suppression act, the training of Tohunga still continued over the years and knowledge was passed on and developed. In 1962, as a result of a review that differentiated between Māori and Europeans, the Tohunga suppression act was repealed. With the resurgence of Māori culture in the past few decades Rongoa Māori has regained its prominence, in which I will do my revolutionary part in ensuring it remains that way! Your return to the soil, is indeed a revolutionary act.

Majestical Taniwha, just dropped off a couple boxes of organic kai, straight out the whenua. Courtesy of the BHU. You were busy having a kōrero with the rangatahi, I eavesdropped on a bit of your kōrero - thank you for what you’re doing my bro, holding space, planting seeds that you’ve accumulated over the years, from wananga and personal experience from being in the Mud yourself.

One man plants a seed, another waters it, Atua makes it grow.

Whakahonore my bro!

Make something healthy for these youngins! Better yet, they can make it dem selves!

“May Youth never be wasted on the young”