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Dr Tara McAllister

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Māmā, scholar-activist, kairangahau, scientist, writer | Indigenous, Māori, Te Aitanga a Māhaki | Nōku anake ēnei whakaaro

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I just tested negative 7 days dor me but i still have a very chesty cough :(

14.03.2026 04:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

curious for anyone who has had covid recently how long it took to test negative?

14.03.2026 02:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
3 hue on a window sill

3 hue on a window sill

Ohhhh my pretty big babies

11.03.2026 20:02 👍 30 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes they will grow great there :)

11.03.2026 04:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No depending on where u are. Where are u guys? They are harder to dry than grow

11.03.2026 01:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A small dry hue next to a big green hue

A small dry hue next to a big green hue

So big compared to one i grew last season

11.03.2026 00:58 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
A person holding a hue bigger than there face

A person holding a hue bigger than there face

A large green gourd

A large green gourd

I am the happiest girl in the world (even tho i have covid) look at my beautiful baby! My fav hue of the season 😍😍

11.03.2026 00:48 👍 45 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0

Its day 5 now and im starting to feel better now. Still pretty sick but more energy to get up and do things

09.03.2026 20:53 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
Strawberries and eggs

Strawberries and eggs

Also I have been neglecting the garden a bit and god damn lots of eggs and lots of strawberries 😍

09.03.2026 20:09 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A hue sitting on a windowsill

A hue sitting on a windowsill

First hue harvested this raumati 😭😍

My hue plants always closely mirror things that are happening in my life. So it feels like a very special day that shes coming inside our whare

09.03.2026 19:51 👍 30 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I was really surprised it was covid i thought it was a cold. because there was no fever or headache or anything

08.03.2026 21:17 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks everyone. I am doing ok i have a very chesty cough and feel like shit. My mum picked up the boys before i realised it was covid. So i am glad i dont have to look after them and they wont get sick.

08.03.2026 21:15 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Oh no i have covid 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

07.03.2026 23:06 👍 55 🔁 1 💬 20 📌 0

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

05.03.2026 02:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think I was flirting in te reo Māori yesterday and I feel like that is another level of language aquisition 🤭🤭🤭🤭

04.03.2026 17:34 👍 37 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
A watermelon cut in 2 pieces

A watermelon cut in 2 pieces

Look what i grew 😍😍😍

04.03.2026 07:03 👍 47 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

There are so many beatiful pēpi in my class I got to have some snuggles with a 4 week old pēpi and 😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰

03.03.2026 16:32 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

gaaaaaah still going with the most bloody annoying paper edits in history today they have taken out all my quotation marks on things that aren’t direct quotes and i cant say Indigenous ways of knowing and doing because that is apparently confusing for people.

02.03.2026 17:04 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

After 2 weeks of reo rua we are going into reo only today in my reo course i am very excited a great way to learn

01.03.2026 19:40 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
David Klein: For the love of birds (and Wellington) Calling all bird lovers! In a celebration of our feathery friends, David Klein shares fun scientific facts with a dollop of silly at the Wellington Fringe Festival in the aptly named David Klein prese...

It's important to champion the increase in bird numbers around Wellington.

But at an ecosystem level, it's uneven recovery. Plants, lizards, wetlands, freshwater fish, pāua etc all continue to decline.

David Klein: For the love of birds (and Wellington) www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

28.02.2026 19:31 👍 46 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0

Jesus ouch!!!!

28.02.2026 20:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I would also like to build a little glass house for seed propagation because my house gets full of seedling trays coming into summer 😆😆😆 and I want to get some water tanks so I can use the water from my roof.

28.02.2026 19:49 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We have grown so much kai and given kai and so many beautiful flowers to friends and family. Still heaps of mahi to do eventually there will be no grass and more fruit trees. it is such a privilege to have a garden. Eventually i would like to have a free kai/putiputi stand outside our whare

28.02.2026 19:45 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A photo of a garden

A photo of a garden

These two rows are probably my favourite. Love our māra it brings me so much joy

28.02.2026 19:35 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
An empty section with 2 kids in it

An empty section with 2 kids in it

A garden with garden beds, a tunnel

A garden with garden beds, a tunnel

I found this photo of our yard not a month or so after we moved in. And this is what it looks like now 😆

I have loved creating and building it all with my own hands 🌱❤️

28.02.2026 19:28 👍 80 🔁 0 💬 10 📌 0

Omg ouch are u ok

28.02.2026 19:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thats a naughty dog 😆😆😆

28.02.2026 05:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

😆😆😆😆😆😆 was it edward scissor hands???

28.02.2026 05:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have never paid anyone to do something i can do myself before so it feels ethically interesting

28.02.2026 05:44 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Maybe it was a lion

28.02.2026 05:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0