Ep 20 - Georgina speaks to New Zealander Huia Crosby founder of Huia Holistic Health

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Huia lives with her partner Sander, their two children and a dog in Marlborough where 75% of New Zealand’s wine is produced. She’s busy working as a naturopath specialising in herbal medicine as well as doing several forms of massage and being a yoga and Zumba teacher. Oh, and that’s on top of being a mum and helping her partner Sander run Karaka Kitchen.
I wanted to talk to Huia to find out what happened in NZ at the beginning of the global Covid-19 pandemic in February 2020. She says, ‘I remember the country stood still – there’s a person in that hospital and covid is here in New Zealand’. The speed with which it spread was ‘ferocious’ and she describes how ‘events started being cancelled just one by one by one like dominoes’. This directly impacted her and Sander’s business Karaka Kitchen. Keeping on top of last-minute cancellations was difficult as it happened just as they were starting to prep the food. Huia also talks about how her Zumba classes were ‘freakily gaining ridiculous popularity which once upon a time would have been really fun... but it was petrifying!’.

When the lockdown was announced Huia says, ‘we all sat on the edge of our seats… it’s something like I’ve never known in New Zealand’. The speed with which NZ went from level 2 lockdown to an emergency level 4 lockdown sent shockwaves through everyone. She describes her kids being sent home from school and how she couldn’t get back as there had been a bad accident on the main highway. ‘People were running around like headless chooks (chickens) not understanding in 48 hours it’s a crime to meet up with your friend or to leave your house even’.
By huge coincidence this was also the time for picking the grape harvest and ‘fruit was sitting there plump and ripe and with the best-tasting fruit profiles that we’ve known’. Vineyards went into lockdown with fruit pickers staying on-site in RV’s. Meanwhile, Huia was making sure they had covered all the bases and Karaka Kitchen would be allowed to stay open and continue catering. This was vital for the business as ‘our chillers were rammed with food which would go off’. Whilst life is now almost back to normal when the covid alert system goes off everyone still freaks out. This interview was recorded on Monday 6th July @ 7 am NZST time.
https://karakakitchen.co.nz/
https://huiaholistic.co.nz/
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