We start our look at Māori horticulture talking about the challenges and ingenuity of Māori upon arriving in Aotearoa. Specifically, the climate in their new home and how that affected the tropical plants they knew and loved.

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One response to “47 – Colder, Colder…”

  1. […] They have a particularly good focus on Maori topics, especially pre-European contact. I caught a really interesting episode on how Maori adapted their horticulture to New Zealand’s cold climate when they first arrived […]

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In this “unashamedly homegrown” podcast we tell the story of our islands from the time before people arrived all the way up to the year 2000.

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