Maori Pattern

Jacob traces out a Maori pattern design that he has found onto our gourd. The Maori pattern for carving has developed greatly since the first Polynesians came to New Zealand. The earliest settlers brought with them a fairly simple set of basic designs and a small range of largely geometrical surface patterns with straight lines rather than the curvilinear patterns almost universally used today. 

Gourd Seeds

This is the start of our study program with the planting of our Gourd seeds.  Jacob has new plants for our garden, Miles holds an old Gourd shell that Doug brought to us from the Nowell’s Lakes Walkway and Jason has the neat little hot house that was donated to us by Bunning’s of Hawera and in which the seeds are planted.