//093 Yvonne Thomas

Yvonne (Ngāpuhi) is a mentor and trustee with Auckland Teaching Gardens Trust. She supports the community with garden plots, gardening courses and supplying kai to food banks. We recorded this interview in her garden in Māngere, surrounded by manu and the local community tending to their plots. In this episode she talks to us about her upbringing and how society has changed over her lifetime. She shares the importance of growing a garden, not only for sustainability and kai purposes, but also for learning some of life’s greatest lessons.

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//093 Yvonne Thomas is an episode from NUKU by Qiane Matata-Sipu.

This episode is 01:06:40 long.

This episode was published on Nov 2, 2021.

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