55 – Stories That Made Us

This episode we have a special episode from Stories That Made Us podcast giving us a retelling of the Māori creation story as well as a few other tales from elsewhere in the Pacific!

54 – Stories of Plants

A small smattering of various stories all about plants, how they came to be and why they are the way they are!

53 – Potatoes and Wheat

For our final episode on Māori horticulture we look at the influence Europeans and their crops had after their arrival. We talk about cash crops, missionaries and all sorts!

52 – Foraging

We move away from the garden (sort of) to talk about what Māori were foraging in the bush. With a particular focus on fern root, cabbage tree and karaka.

51 – My Birb of the Year 2020

Another year, another birb of the year choice! I tell you all about my pick for this year’s BOTY award. Mostly just cause I want to talk about NZ conservation on my history podcast 😛

50 – Kūmara Comes from the Freezer!

Today we talk about a bit of a random mix of things, from specifc plants to climate change and the linguistics of naming plants and animals!

49 – Dank Weeds

Today is all about weeds! What they are, how Europeans and Māori viewed them and even a bit on how Pākehā used them as a justification for colonisation (no, seriously). We also talk a bit about harvesting as well!

48 – How to Plant a Garden

Today we talk about a few different things around Māori horticulture from how gardens were made up, fertiliser, tools, gods and planting!

47 – Colder, Colder…

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.

46 – Mataora and Niwareka

We go back to our tā moko episodes and do a dramatic retelling of the story of Mataroa and Niwareka, the couple that brough moko and tāniko to our world!