HARVEST FESTIVAL Tapu Te Ranga Marae

Haere mai - Our first open day

• To honour and thank Sir Michael Fowler and the Sisters of The Home of Compassion.
• Music Kids fun with Woken Bird.
• Growing organic food and composting…worm farms.
• Scarecrows.
• Recycling-reusing- reducing- making something from nothing.
• Stalls-renewable energy-sun-wind-water.
• composting toilets.
• A tour of our Manawa Karioi Native Reforestation.
• Food…hangi…Barbacue…
• Marae Tours: Heritage and historical sites - koha.
• Rongoa (native medicinal plants) Mirimiri (massage)
• Rare and endangered garden.
• Wahi whenua Garden.
• Maurakau (taiaha) Poi.
• Harakeke
• Powhiri.
• Taonga Puoro (flutes).
• Ta Moko (maori tattoo).
• Maori Art.

Tapu Te Ranga Marae…continues to be built by unemployed Maori youth - it is a strong social, cultural, artistic and environmental statement. A by-product is the world's largest and tallest fully wooden house built of recycled materials. Living Maori in today’s world. The biggest threat is fire.

We’re fund raising for a sprinkler system.

Tapu-Te-Ranga-Harvest-Festival (Adobe PDF)