Whare Kōtare, Levin (2025)

21/12/2025

Maunga ki te Moana | Mountains to the Sea

Dark to Light

New Moon to Summer Solstice.

Year of the Snake to Year of the Horse.

I was up with the Sun this morning, and feeling a lot of restless energy as it feels right on the cusp of a year of moving through and releasing whats not needed, and then turning to face into a bold and beautiful future.

Needing to walk it out, a wonderful friend and I ended up walking along the Beach all the way to Ōtaki from Waikawa and back again.

Gotta love the movement of stagnant energy and thoughts that comes with moving physically and giving air to thoughts.

Something I settled into, there are so many amazing people out there, doing their absolute best with the gifts they’ve been given to walk this Earth with.

I’m excited for a year where we can release what’s been and each collectively step into our strengths for a collective step up.

To come together in mutual support and uplift.

To release things that may feel like they’ve held us back, when in truth perhaps it was just us being readied for the next steps.

To continue to Walk each other home.

With love and respect.

In Reciprocity for this beautiful world we get to walk amongst.

Sending so much love to whomever may need a top up today

Mauri Aroha e te whanau

20/12/2025

I’ve had a wonderful day creating fresh batches of our lovely Rongoā products.

💚 Fresh Mauri Tau ready to go - Perfect for combining Breath with a Calming Ritual to bring Balance ❣️

Featuring Tātarāmoa to down regulate the nervous system

💚 Our gorgeous Kawakawa and Coconut Body Butter is back in stock

💚 Kawakawa Lip Balm and Pani freshly batched up

💚 And our Grounding Candles are back in stock - featuring Bergamot and Cedarwood 🔥

We’re at the Ōtaki Market tomorrow from 10am - 2pm, or message me if you’re after any Rongoā treasures and can get it to you direct

19/12/2025

I’ve been looking forward to the next few days for a wee while now.

It’s a 🖤 New Moon on Saturday, and the 💛 Summer Solstice on Monday.

The Darkest Night and the start of a new Lunar phase. Backed up by the day with Longest Daylight hours of the year.

Moon and Sun in total contrast to each other.

It feels like synergy and polarity to me.

Masculine and Feminine.

Dark and Light.

Sowing and Growing.

New Moons are a great time to cast forward by sowing seeds into the darkness. And then with the power of the Sun out for so long, giving all that epic Solar strength.

I’ve been feeling a steady excitement build.

For it feels like a powerful time for setting intentions. Releasing. And Bringing future timelines to Life.

I popped in and got a Black Moonstone and a Sunstone to use as mauri anchors over the weekend.

They’re out in the rain now having a wātea so they’re ready to go.

I’m following my intuition on this one, as two of my fave Wayfinding Markers align.

It’s feeling easy and fun.

Do you have any plans for rituals for how to move from this current cycle, into the next?

14/12/2025

7 days from sown to strongly germinated!

I love the constant reminder of the story of Te Kore, Te Po, Te Ao that growing from seed gives me.

From the Chaos / Void, into the Darkness and then on, into the Light.

It teaches that the space of ‘not knowing’ is ok. That ‘Darkness’ is needed. And that the outcome is the growth coming into the ‘Light’

All parts are needed. The cycle is honest.

And the energy that comes from within the cycle is so empowering and soothing. And constantly moving. So whatever part of the cycle we’re in, it will move through. And Growth is on the other side.

Mauri Aroha

Happy Monday fams

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13/12/2025

And we’re back for the Summer Market season - how fun.

Beautiful Rongoā products - locally harvested and made treasures.

Plus some Wall Hangings - this one is inspired by Kuku Beach. Where the Moana meets the Wetlands.

13/12/2025

And the Corn are on their way, yah!

They’re so cute.

Always reminds me that the best way to do something, is, to simply do it. Popping the seeds into the trays, water them, check in on em to give them some loves, and they do the rest.

The Potatoes have popped their heads up too, things are boosting away in the māra kai / vege garden now.

Lovely spot to sit and enjoy my cacao, and Phoenix boy quite likes the warm pea straw covered beds to sit in. The Spinach doesn’t seem to be suffering for it at this point 😆

09/12/2025

Thanks so much for my Ruka Hue baby Jem 💚

Looking forward to seeing how we go growing this one at Kuku.

It’s one of the big Water Gourds. I’m excited to workwith the Gourds in about a year. From growth to dried, and turned into an art piece
Meremere Rongoā

07/12/2025

Discovering the Three Sisters planting method has brought me nourishment far beyond the physical eating of and the growing of food.

It’s also given me a way of seeing how knowledge sets can support each other. They tell a story.

If we look at the Corn as the holder of the Land Based, Indigenous Knowledge sets. The provider of Structure. It’s important it goes first. Leads the way. Gives a frame of reference.

Then follows the Beans. Filling the spaces and nourishing the Corn with Nitrogen. It’s the Western Science knowledge sets. The ‘How’ behind the ‘Why and the What’ of the Indigenous knowledge.

If we leave the Beans to grow without structure. They take over, sprawling and formless. And if added too soon, it takes over the Corn before it can get strong enough to provide the structure.

When done well, the two pair together outstandingly well.

So today I sowed more Corn. With whakapapa back to the Incan and the Navajo.

I’ll let it go, and then in awhile, add the Beans.

05/12/2025

In case no one told you lately,

You’re Doing Great!!

Younger you is so proud of you, and you’re exactly where you’re meant to be x

Oh, and if you haven’t yet, go get a new Planner for next year and start loading some fun things into 😉

(And how cool is Asparagus when it goes to Flower)

01/12/2025

I was super proud to turn the page on our ART Confederation Maramataka Calendar this month and find my photo connected with this month’s Rongo / Peace messaging.

I was out at Kuku Beach one morning and was gifted a Rainbow that lay along the whenua in the wetland as the Sun rose. A moment I’ll never forget.

So I offer you this image. To imagine in your own space. I invite you to read this, and then, close your eyes to bring it to life.

Breath in the fresh scent of a day just beginning. The night has done its resetting work, and a new Dawn is coming with a fresh start.

Feel the air caress your cheeks with the crisp freshness of the pre-dawn feel.

Hear the waves, rolling in the distance.

Breath into this a moment.

And then, open your eyes.

To receive the gift of seeing the soft mist rising off the wetland, the shift in temperature bringing in a pre-dawn haze. And as the sun rises above the Tararua Ranges, it lights up the morning mist. Giving life for a short time to this Rainbow Blanket. As it lay, embracing the whenua in soft colour. So comforting and wonderful. A tohu for a delightful day and a reminder to look for the moments that tell you you’re on the right path.

The soft gold of the sunrise held the blanket there for a short while, in that liminal space between night and day.

Breathe into this now. The balanced space between Night and Day. Light and Dark. The moment in between. Stay here as long as you need.

And then. Notice as the Sun strengthens and lifts.

Burning away the Mist, and removing the last traces of the Night. As the cycles of Nature continue.

A reminder to bring with you the memories of the joyfulness of times you can’t see anymore, but are a part of you.

And to look for the reminders and signs, that there is constant transition around you.

So amongst it all.

Seek the Peaceful moments, and allow yourself to feel into them. So you can return to them in your thoughts as often as you need to.

Go Well

B 💚

29/11/2025

So excited about our Kumara patch.

First time growing them for me, so was neat to learn through this process with Mama so we have our own crop ready for Matariki celebrations next year.

From gathering knowledge from others we’ve made use of our Comfrey crop to plant with as fertiliser, and the manure and blood and bone.

Plus pointing the root stock toward the East to capture the energy of the Rising Sun each day.

To plant something with such a long growth window is such a cool way to connect with my future self and already thinking quietly of future Ceremony times.

The gift of living on multi generational whanau land is the tangible connections found through the soil. We spoke of Grandad Harold, who always had the best Vege gardens near where we’ve put this one. And my Great Grandies Henry & Evelyn, as pieces of old thick glass bottles came up as we worked the soil. Traces of daily life lived here.

Makes sense, that an ancient crop with such a long growing window brought in the Tupuna to create the Future timelines 💫💫💫

And that the depth of the Winter Ceremony of Matrariki is supported by a crop sown in Spring.

28/11/2025

An absolutely delightful way to spend the afternoon.

Sunshine, great kai, yarns and laughs.

Some fab takeaways from Lisa’s knowledge share, always great to hang out with people who speak the same languaging around living a full and vibrant life.

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