The Tuhoe Tuawhenua Trust is committed to finding ways to ensure that Ruatahuna is a thriving community, through their commercial ventures and regular wananga they are reconnecting their people with their whenua and whakapapa.
Nate Smith is on a journey to change the way Aotearoa approaches commercial fishing.Nate works to empower and support small local fishing communities and bring a sustainable approach back to Aotearoa's seafood industry.
Kai Rotorua is an organisation that connects people to Papatuanuku and growing kumara is their main tool. Volunteers decided to grow the kumara for Rotorua's Matariki Umu Kohukohu Whetu, they began a learning journey.
Torere Macadamia's pioneering Vanessa Hayes and her whanau, traverse thirty years of trials, tribulations and triumph to become world leaders in the industry and they bring in more Maori growers, through the Mataatua Macadamia Collective.
Will commercialising an endangered species bring it back from the brink? Manaki Whitebait has set out to revitalise Aotearoa's declining whitebait population, shaking up the entire commercial whitebaiting industry in the process
Expensive and gourmet - truffles are fast becoming the crop du jour for entrepreneurial Maori. Opotiki growers Matiu Hudson and Annette Munday are leaders in truffle farming and they encourage and support new growers.
After Nga Wairiki Ngati Apa received their treaty settlement, their goal was to provide sustainable business for the iwi. Buying Te Hou farm was quickly followed by forestry and then further diversifying into strawberry growing.
