Wednesday, 20 January 2021, 3:09 pm
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is funding a
new marae-based project to help Kaipara residents grow their
own food.
The first of four educational hui will be
held this month to teach people how to transform their
backyards into food bowls.
MPI is providing $20,000 to
Māuri Orā ki Ngāti Whatua Charitable Trust to develop the
community education programme.
The funding is part of
MPI’s Rural Community Hubs programme, which is empowering
isolated communities to be better prepared to tackle
challenges they face.
“During last year’s COVID-19
lockdowns, local iwi helped bring fresh food into the
Prof Baker would like to see travellers have two rapid tests and spend five days in isolation before coming to New Zealand but the COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says that s too hard. It means we would have to have people around the world overseeing pre-departure quarantine in hundreds of different countries and that s simply not feasible, he says.
Prof Baker says the border is the risk and efforts should be concentrated there. I think we should be focusing much more on the 300 people getting on flights overseas and coming back to New Zealand every day rather than the five million people here because we don t currently have transmission of the virus in the country.