Kai Oranga L4
Kai Oranga (Kaupae Tuawhā)
This level 4 horticulture programme focuses on food sustainability, food sovereignty, and management, as well as empowering Māori to exercise control over all facets of the food that they grow, eat and manage.
Kai Oranga (Kaupae Tuawhā) as a horticulture studies programme builds on the aspirations of Kai Oranga (Kaupae Tuatoru) by allowing tauira to reintroduce these cultural concepts and practices, along with practical knowledge, back into the memory and practices of Māori communities, increasing food security, food sovereignty and the health of Māori people.
Tauira will
- Gain knowledge and skills in maara kai, rongoā and nutrition according to mātauranga Māori practices
- Develop intermediate skills in preserving, enhancing, and promoting maara kai and enhance the wellness and well-being of whānau, marae and the community.
- Gain skills to further enhance, promote, prepare, plant and review maara kai.
- Apply te reo Māori and tikanga to Kai Oranga
- Develop and apply permaculture principles to Kai Oranga
- Review and apply principles and practice of kai as rongoā
Dates
Intake dates variableDuration
20 weeksCommitment
Blended learning including noho, wānanga, online learning and self-directed learningApplications close
Intake 1: 24 Feb 2025, Intake 2: 11 Aug 2025, and other intakes upon demandLocations
Available nationally based on demandRequirements
Desire to learn about maara kai and rongoā in a Māori context and to work in health and or horticulture industriesPathway to
View link belowFees
Tuition fees free
Show Course Outline
KAI401 Te Kōwae Ako 1 - Te Kōpura
Course type: Core
- Description: This course prepares students to be able to plant, design, prepare and review maara kai, including the application of the maramataka. Students will learn to identify seasonal tohu that indicate planting and harvesting times, learn to identify soil types and be able to discuss the advantages of companion planting and crop rotation.
KAI402 Te Kōwae Ako 2 - Te Tāpapa
Course type: Core
- Description: This course develops students' intermediate skills in preserving, enhancing, and promoting maara kai. Students learn to apply knowledge of nutrition and apply permaculture design principles to kai oranga. Students will extend their knowledge of te reo me ōna tikanga to kai oranga situations.
KAI403 Te Kōwae Ako 3 - Te Hauhake
Course type: Core
- Description: This course allows students to apply knowledge of nutrition and apply permaculture design principles to kai oranga.
KAI404 Te Kōwae Ako 4 - Te Rua
Course type: Core
- Description: Students will apply the principles of kai oranga, demonstrate how ngā hua, or the produce, of maara kai can be distributed. Students will learn about food sovereignty, and apply this by preparing, planting, and harvesting a maara kai. Students will also learn about rongoā as it applies through kai oranga and the development and maintenance of maara kai.
Ngā korero a ngā tauira
Student's voice
Papatūānuku Kōkiri Marae
Papatūānuku Kōkiri Marae engages in our Community Education, Te Pou Hono, Kai Oranga and Te Pōkaitahi Reo Programmes
Pupuaruhe (Toroa) Marae
Pupuaruhe (Toroa) Marae have completed Community Education and Te Pou Hono programmes with Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
Iwitea Marae
Iwitea has been with Awanuiārangi for nearly 10 years. It has changed everything for us. Our first programme was Community Education and it was about whakapapa.
Karangahape Marae
Karangahape Marae, Matangirau, Te Tai Tokerau (Northland) have done Iwi Development programmes since 2006
Ngatai Whakarongorua Marae
Ngatai Whakarongorua Marae, Tinopai completed marae programmes with Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
Tomo mai ki Awanuiārangi
Experience Awanuiārangi
School of Iwi Development
The School of Iwi Development’s goal is to facilitate te whakapakaritanga me te hiki i te mātauranga o te iwi Māori i roto o Aotearoa. Its role is to bring hapū members together to learn about themselves, and to provide a stairway to higher learning.
Wānanga learning style
Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi delivers programmes that are distinctive in many ways. We are unique in the tertiary sector of New Zealand, as we are the only wānanga that delivers programmes from foundation through to PhD.
Whakapā mai/Contact us
Waiana Renata
National Programme Coordinator - Kai Oranga
- Phone: 027 204 5677 or Freephone: 0508 92 62 64
- Email: waiana.renata@wananga.ac.nz
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