Treasures of Tane Plants of Ngāi Tahu
$50.00
Treasures of Tane Plants of Ngāi Tahu – Rob Tipa
With modern day interest and emphasis in the ways native plants can provide us with food, fibre, building materials and medicines, this book discusses traditional uses of native plants for Māori in the South Island of Aotearoa (New Zealand) as well as some European settlers, you will uncover some surprising uses of common native plants.
The text describes the features and uses of each plant, listed alphabetically for quick reference.
Written by a journalist, the book is informative, engaging, enlightening, user-friendly and is beautiful to browse.
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Rob Tipa (Ngāi Tahu, Ngati Kahungunu) is a freelance journalist with more than forty years’ experience as a reporter and editor with metropolitan, community and farming publications.
To reconnect with his Ngāi Tahu heritage, he researched a series of articles on traditional uses of New Zealand native plants that were on the Ngāi Tahu taonga plants list. This became a series of nearly fifty columns published in Te Karaka magazine over a period of ten years.
Rob and his partner Stella, have landscaped and restored native bush on their property.
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