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Kōrero: Conservation – a history

Māori garden

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Māori garden

Areas of Māori cultivation are widespread on the south Wairarapa coast. Stone walls (the horizontal lines, centre) were built in the late 15th century to shelter kūmara (sweet potato). The dark green stands of trees are karaka groves, and the isolated trees are tī kōuka (cabbage trees).

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Department of Conservation

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by Kevin Jones

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Simon Nathan, Conservation – a history – Māori conservation traditions, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/13902/maori-garden (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Simon Nathan, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.