TAHAA is a practitioner based network, connecting communities along Te Tairaawhiti (the east coast of the north island of Aotearoa/New Zealand) who are involved in work that seeks to restore and maintain our unique links between our cultural identity, the unique landscape around us, and the many treasured native species that we share our home with. 

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Te Aka a Haumie Akaaka references the shallow, connective root systems that sit just beneath the surface, connecting growth and providing soil stability. This growth exists in the realm of Haumie, our Atua who cares for wild foods and soil wellbeing.

Tahaa means calabash, and also invokes our Atua Hinepuutehue - who provides calm and wellbeing as her vine spreads across the surface of Papatuuaanuku, Earth Mother. Tahaa were traditionally used to store and carry freshwater, food, and treasured cultural belongings.

TAHAA provides a platform for advancing our biocultural wellbeing through mutually supportive networks and links to funding and potential collaborative partnerships.