HGG Kaupapa
Our vision is to build capability within the people while fostering education, innovation, and enhancing food sovereignty opportunities for our local community and visitors alike.
Hunter, Gatherer, Gardener offers educational workshops that teach essential skills in hunting, gathering, and gardening.
These wananga are designed to enhance sustainable food systems, promote food sovereignty and
offer solutions to increased food insecurity for our local community.
The key wananga topics include:
Hunter: Deer, Pig, Goat, Fishing & Diving (seasonal species), Home Butchery
Gatherer: Kai Moana (ocean foraging for Paua, Kina, Mussel, Crayfish), Ngahere (forest foraging), Māori Medicinal
uses of Native plants (rongoa), Aquaculture (Eel and Koura)
Gardener: Vegetable Propagation, Orchard and Fruit Propagation, Native Trees & Plants Propagation, Garden
Building and Landscaping, Soil Creation and Composting (permaculture techniques), Seasonal Seed Gathering
Hunter Gatherer Gardener
At The Grey Area Nursery, our Hunter Gardener Gatherer Wānanga was established with the support of Te Pūtahitanga to help reconnect whānau with the whenua, kai, and traditional ways of living.
While the programme was supported into form, this has always been our way of life. Through balance, respect, and koha, we continue this legacy every day.
Led by Rawiri Ra Clay, whose life has been shaped by the ngahere, moana, and maara kai, the wānanga offers hands on experiences in hunting, gathering, gardening, and home butchery.
Participants learn to harvest kai moana, grow and propagate food, explore aquaculture, and understand the deeper relationship between people and the land.
Grounded in generations of knowledge and lived practice, this kaupapa supports food sovereignty, strengthens connection, and empowers whānau to provide for themselves and future generations.
