Traditional gathering and harvesting of kai

When the Maori people walked over New Zealand the easiest food for them to harvest was plants and fish. Maoris would spear the eels and ika to kill them so they can cook it over a fireplace.

How maori would cook it was either by roasting it in the ground or using a stove. Hangi and boil up is a very good enjoyable meal. they also cook hangi in the ground. The moa got extinct because all of the maori people would always hunt it down for food and for their starving family.

It wast rare to spot native New Zealanders eating sea food like Krayfish, muscle, Kina eels, white bait and much more. getting food from the ground was hard work for them because they would waste all of their energy on planting and harvesting foods like Kumara, kale etc.