Kai Ora features in Kai and Culture Cookbook
What is New Zealand food? Who eats what and why? How do we grow, obtain and share our food? What is its environmental cost? How does food shape culture and culture shape food? Food tells a story. A story about where it came from, who produced it, and its journey from source to plate. We all share in the experience of food: it connects a diversity of people, places and ideas. In this book writers, chefs, producers and academics cook up essays, profiles and recipes that explore Aotearoa's contemporary food culture and an emerging, evolving New Zealand food identity. From...
Blanche Murray wins Young Maori Business Leader Award 2017
When Blanche Morrogh (nee Murray) started Kai Ora Honey in 2012, she had no idea it would bloom so quickly into a multi-million dollar global concern. Today, the Far North-based whānau-owned business operates 2500 hives and exports 50 tonnes of Active Manuka Honey to customers in Asia, the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Kuwait, with plans to export 90 tonnes-plus by 2020. Her achievements were honoured on Friday night when Morrogh (Ngāti Kuri and Te Rarawa) received the Young Māori Business Leader Award in the 2017 University of Auckland Aotearoa Māori Business Leaders Awards at a sold-out dinner. The awards,...
Northland iwi turns family pastime into multi-million dollar operation
Blanche Murray's introduction to the manuka honey industry was not without pain. Moving hives at night with only a beekeeping half-suit, she bent over in front of a headlight in thin fleecy trousers – her backside becoming an illuminated target she reckons was stung about 80 times. "I jumped like a kangaroo," she says. The young mum is a face of the manuka honey industry that is turning what was once considered wasteland into liquid gold and bringing jobs and prospects to Maori in areas including her own Far North community. Blanche is the granddaughter of revered Maori rights champion Saana Waitai-Murray, who...
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