Ferns For Survival

Ferns played an important part in the lives of Māori and early European settlers.  We are going to have fun learning about some of these uses and explaining them in the style of Bear Grylls.

Note: With much of our native bush already under threat from introduced animals, please do not gather ferns from the wild and nor should you actually eat any of the recommended fern species. One website on New Zealand wild foods says that, of the 312 varieties of pikopiko fern, only 7 are edible. If you don’t know what you are picking, don’t eat it!

Follow this link to Te Ara for more great information on this subject and to help you create your storyboard.