Arohaina mai!
Aroha is a wonderful word, covering love, pity, affection and approval! Te Māra Reo is definitely a labour of love, and if you also feel warmly towards this venture, we'd love to have your help! Tūmanako, "hope", is another, in any language, it keeps us going, despite setbacks -- as the Mexican poet Ruben Diario put it: !Esperad, esperamos todavia! Tūmanako, me tūmanako tonu tātou!
Koha - Donations
Donations would be appreciated to help with expenses connected with the website and also maintaining and developing the garden. If you would like to help this way, you can donate to this account, which is used exclusively to support Te Māra Reo: Westpac New Zealand Ltd (SWIFT Code WPACNZ2WXXX) 03 0510 0156822 026, Account Name: E E Duque. Please put your name in the "Reference" section, and send us an email at temaarareo {at} gmail.com so we can acknowledge your contribution and let you know how your donation will be used. Please also let us know whether you would be happy for us to mention your help in the next Newsletter.
Some other ways you could help
"Friends of Te Māra Reo"
Friends' Newsletter
Ētahi atu Momo Āwhina - Some Other Ways You Could Help Us.
This page was first prepared towards the end of 2010, at a time when we were very optimistic about finding a way to ensure that Te Māra Reo would have a sustainable future, as both a real-world ethnobotanical garden, and an internet resource. It has been an uphill struggle since then, with many setbacks. However, the website has continued to develop, although the garden has proved much more of a struggle, mainly because of lack of resources: we ran out of money in our first few years of development and have never had the money or the personnel since then to do all that needs to be done. But many of the trees and ferns are still growing, and we continue to have hopes for the future.
Apart from a cash donation, there are many other kinds of assistance which would also be greatly appreciated.
For example, recipes that include the fruit, leaves, flowers or stems of New Zealand native plants, especially those with names brought here from Polynesia that are featured on this site, would be much appreciated. We will include these in the pages for the plants concerned (you will already find a suggestion for cooking an extraordinarily delicious chicken in the page for miro). Stories about the featured plants (their appearance in traditional narratives, pakiwaitara, or real events) would also be valued.
Your comments would also be most welcome, including suggestions for improvements and correction of errors on the web pages. Constructive criticism is much more valuable than unmerited plaudits! (Merited plaudits, however, are always appreciated.) We value information, photographs and questions from people visiting the site -- this material is often incorporated in the notes about specific plants, and also included on the "News" page or the Newsletter.
If you have native plants you would like to donate, please let us know. We will let you know if we will be able to provide them with a good home.
We would also appreciate ideas about raising funds and information about possible sources of financial support.
Our e-mail address is temaarareo {at} gmail.com. We do not have a Facebook or Instagram page, however -- maintaining the website is difficult enough!
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"Friends of Te Māra Reo
Anyone who uses the web site or otherwise has an interest in the garden and what we are trying to do is welcome to join our group of friends -- we will add your email address to our mailing list, and let you know about what new pages have been added to the site, or other developments or information that we'd like to let our friends know about. The main vehicle for this (apart from the on-line news page) is our "Friends Newsletter". Previous issues of the newsletter are linked below. The newsletter replaces the longer items that used to appear in the "News" pages from time to time. Our "friends" mailing list is not used for any other purpose and is not available to third parties so you don't need to worry about security!
If you would like to be registered as a friend, just email us at temaarareo {at} gmail.com.
Links to previous issues of the Friends' Newsletter
(Ngā Hoa o Te Māra Reo: Kawerongo).
[Past issues are posted here a month or two after the previous issue has been sent out.]
Kawerongo/Newsletter #1 Koanga / Spring 2020 (pdf)
Kawerongo/Newsletter #2 Raumati / Summer 2021-2 (pdf)
Kawerongo/Newsletter #3 Koanga / Spring 2022 (pdf)
Kawerongo/Newsletter #4 Matariki 2023 (pdf)
Kawerongo/Newsletter #5 Koanga 2025 (pdf)
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