Story: Kai Pākehā – introduced foods
The large island to the right is Moturua Island, in the Bay of Islands, where French explorer Marion du Fresne planted gardens in 1772. The first potatoes grown by Māori in the far north may have come from these gardens.
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Photograph by Lloyd Homer
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