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Rotorua retiree Wayne Evans loves to teach people to fish and garden so jumped at the opportunity to share his knowledge with iwi at a recent kai w\u0101nanga at Taharangi Marae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Becoming a Kai Secure Hap\u016b\u2019 was delivered by Ng\u0101ti Kea Ng\u0101ti Tuara with support from Healthy Families Rotorua. The event included a rongo\u0101 presentation by world renown M\u0101ori chef Charles Royal and his wife Tania; rewena bread making with Yvonne Rogers; a kumara presentation by former Healthy Families Rotorua manager Mapihi Raharuhi; along with Wayne and his son Wharehuia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The kaupapa is about transforming the way people access kai and creating an alternate kai system that brings both kai security and kai sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wayne believes it is important that people have kai sovereignty and was delighted to help participants kickstart their journeys by demonstrating how to grow fruit trees in containers, which they were able to take home with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you do it for them, you\u2019re constantly doing it for them. If you show them how to do it, they can do it themselves and then pass it on to other people,\u201d says Wayne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you grow your kai, if you don\u2019t need it, you don\u2019t pick it, unless you\u2019ve put it off for a long time. It stays alive and thriving in the garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you buy your vegetables from the supermarket or greengrocer, they\u2019re probably already at least three days out of the ground. If you don\u2019t use them within a couple of days, you get a slimy mess and throw it in the rubbish, and it goes to the landfill,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When ordering lemon trees for the kai w\u0101nanga, Wayne was determined to be part of the selection process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re going to buy something, you look for quality. You don\u2019t just take the first thing off the shelf and I wanted to pick good ones. If you start with quality, you finish with quality. But if you can\u2019t afford to buy quality, you get the best quality you can get at that time,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a child, Wayne enjoyed helping his father tend to his vegie garden and his mother\u2019s flowerbed. He says the family had massive gardens and a house cow for milk. However, his interest in growing plants in containers came from living in numerous rental properties since returning to Aotearoa from Australia in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI started growing my trees and specimen plants in containers because that way you pick up the container and put it in the back of the truck when you leave instead of leaving a lot of effort and money to the landlord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019d love to see people getting back to growing their own kai. Unfortunately, people don\u2019t have that knowledge and are scared to ask. It takes a long time to get people to realise it\u2019s quite a simple project. It\u2019s like your kids and grandkids. You watch them, and if something goes wrong with them you sort it out. You get your own kai. You can\u2019t beat it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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