17 Feb 2025

Growing kumara in country's only traditional Maori garden

From Nine To Noon, 11:30 am on 17 February 2025
Te Parapara at Hamilton Gardens

Photo: RACHEL STEWART NZ

Hamilton gardens are home to the country's only traditional productive Māori garden - Te Parapara - where everything is done as it was pre-European settlement, including the food that is grown.

Head gardener Alice Gwilliam tells Kathryn Ryan about how the garden is grown. She's worked on it for 20 years - and helped establish it when it opened to the the public in 2010.

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