Our olive grove is located off State Highway 1 in Kuku, Horowhenua. In Feb 2006, Richard Anderson and I, Huhana Smith (of Ngāti Tukorehe, Kuku) bought the U-shaped nearly 7 hectares behind the cooperative. Our land then surrounds other former produce enterprises, related managers' houses and special Māori site. Since 2007, we have been revegetating the Waikōkopu Stream that flows through the property, hence the grove’s name. In 2008, we bought one of the neighbouring managers' houses. In 2009, Māori relations, friends, Richard and I planted the main grove of Frantoio, Leccino and Pendolino varieties on an old Ōhau River bed below the Tikorangi ridge line. Fast forward to 2016-2020...