"Indigenous systems of food production are now being recognized internationally for their sustainability. 
Hua Maori is our response to this growing market for culturally and environmentally responsible foods and medicine."
— Percy Tipene, Chair of Te Waka Kai Ora

© Hua Maori is Te Waka Kai Ora's organic certification scheme and labelling system.  Members who wish to attain certification must comply with the standards set by this verification process.  © Hua Maori conforms to internationally recognised organic standards and accepted New Zealand standards but also adopts an indigenous framework that recognises Maori values and approaches to food production.  This includes the incorporation of Maori tikanga (protocol) and the spiritual, physical and metaphysical attributes that have guided our traditional organic economies for millennia.

The assurrance of food safety is a central ethos of the © Hua Maori certification scheme and the © Hua Maori label is a guarantee that our organic products are healthy, natural and wholesome.   Food integrity is also a primary feature of our certification standards which appreciate that our foods and medicines have a whakapapa (lineage) originating from a parent kakano (seed).  This lineage is ancient.  © Hua Maori provides a regulatory framework that ensures that the kakano not only continues untampered but is allowed to unfold and grow in conditions that are natural, pure and wild.  This maintains the mauri (essence) of the food consumed and its life giving properties.  [Find out more]