Tapu Te Ranga Marae Harvest Festival

Haere mai - Our first open day.

* To honour and thank Sir Michael Fowler and the Sisters of The Home of Compassion.
* Music kids fun with Woken Bird.
* Growing organic food and composting…worm farms.
* Scarecrows.
* Recycling-reusing- reducing- making something from nothing.
* Stalls-renewable energy-sun-wind-water.
* Composting toilets.
* A tour of our Manawa Karioi native reforestation.
* Food…hangi…barbacue…
* Marae Tours: Heritage and historical sites - koha.
* Rongoa (native medicinal plants) Mirimiri (massage)
* Rare and endangered garden.
* Wahi whenua garden.
* Maurakau (taiaha) poi.
* Harakeke
* Powhiri.
* Taonga Puoro (flutes).
* Ta Moko (maori tattoo).
* Maori Art.

Tapu Te Ranga Marae continues to be built by unemployed Maori youth. It is a strong social, cultural, artistic and environmental statement. A by-product is the world's largest and tallest fully wooden house built of recycled materials. Living Maori in today’s world.

The biggest threat is fire. We’re fund raising for a sprinkler system.

Event listed by Anna

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