I found a tohetaka under the pōhutukawa tree and I made a wish.

I just wanted to make a whipped body butter, but what I stumbled upon was a miracle working, luscious whipped creme skin food that smells like cocoa butter and frankincense and heals sunburns and skin ravaged from chemotherapy.

It is said that there is no place in the world where chickweed doesn’t grow. I found this affirmed when I recently spotted it on my first ever trip to Aotea (Great Barrier Island, New Zealand), my ancestral homeland, a very remote and undeveloped island in the South Pacific.