PITOPITO KŌRERO

Read about what we've accomplished throughout our journey.

28 Apr 2023

Housing whānau from Tūranga to Ruatōrea and beyond

Hikurangi Enterprises project Whare Ora has been working to house whānau around Tairāwhiti for two years and is now aiming to get a manufacturing facility set up in Ruatorea.

9 May 2023

Whare Ora housing plan ready to step up

A Tairawhiti economic development trust is creating an off site manufacturing facility at Ruatoria to boost its housing programme.

18 Apr 2023

Housing initiative gets $113,000 funding boost

Four community groups were supported with grants totalling $178,000 in the latest distribution round from Trust Tairāwhiti.

Porourangi Tawhiwhirangi with Rua Bioscience cultivation advisor, Jeremy Plumb.

5 Oct 2020

Medicinal cannabis firm Rua Bioscience opens $20 million offer ahead of listing

Medicinal cannabis company Rua Bioscience is seeking up to $20 million from investors, ahead of a share market listing later in October.

10 Sep 2019

Project looks at carbon farming for Māori landowners

Various recent projects have expanded Māori landowner interest in native forest regeneration and carbon farming.

In the latest in the Frame documentary series produced for The Spinoff by Wrestler and funded by NZ on Air, we meet the wāhine behind Hikurangi Enterprises, a cannabis co-op looking to revitalise Ruatōria.

25 Mar 2019

Grass Roots: the wāhine of Hikurangi Enterprises

In the latest in the Frame documentary series produced for The Spinoff by Wrestler and funded by NZ on Air, we meet the wāhine behind Hikurangi Enterprises.

15 Oct 2018

Hikurangi Group Community Roadshow

Hikurangi Group, a collective of entities dedicated to regional economic development, is this week updating East Coast communities on recent progress through a series of lunchtime public meetings.

3 Jun 2018

Kanuka’s economic value the focus of research project

Ruatoria-based Hikurangi Bioactives has started work on a project to understand the ecological and economic value of kanuka, the most common native plant species in this region.