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Kōrero: Māori foods – kai Māori

He māra huawhenua, i te rautau 1700

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Māori vegetable garden, 1700s

He whakaahua tēnei e whakaatu ana i tētahi māra kai ki Tāmaki-makaurau. Kei raro ki te pito matau ko ngā taro; kei te taha mauī ko ngā hue. Kei ngā māra nunui ngā kūmara e tipu ana. Ka ngakia ngā tarutaru, ā, he taiepa kōhatu, he taiapa rākau ētahi paenga.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Penguin Random House

Reference: Helen Leach, 1,000 years of gardening in New Zealand. Wellington: Reed Publishing, 1984

by Nancy Tichborne

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Charles Royal rāua ko Jenny Kaka-Scott, Māori foods – kai Māori – Traditional growing and gathering, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/40246/maori-vegetable-garden-1700s (accessed 26 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Charles Royal rāua ko Jenny Kaka-Scott, i tāngia i te 3 December 2012.