Series interviewer Dr Jessica Hutchings, a Hua Parakore food farmer, researcher, author and leader in food sovereignty movements tells us about the origins of the Hua Parakore movement.
Jessica meets Māori organic farm champion Cathy Tait Jamieson and her husband Jamie who run a thriving farm without the industrial practices of the farms that surround them.
Jessica travels to Papatūānuku Kōkiri Marae and meets the generations who are caring for the soil and growing organic kai in urban Māngere South Auckland.
Jessica travels to India, part of her own whakapapa. Jessica has come to meet Dr Vandana Shiva, one of the most important environmentalists in the world.
At her home, Jessica shares her mātauranga with a group of tauira from Te Wānanga o Raukawa. She reflects on the series and the people she has met who are committed to Hua Parakore.
Jessica travels to Te Waipounamu to learn from Edward Ellison, Paulette Tamati-Elliffe and Tūmai Cassidy about the food gathering practises that the Ōtākou rūnanga are revitalising.
Jessica Hutchings travels to Te Tai Tokerau to meet Ngāti Hine leaders Tohe Ashby and Heeni Hōterene. It’s here that the Hua Parakore movement began with the guidance of Percy Tipene.