From woodchopping champ TO TRADITIONAL HEALER
‘Once I saw how good it was for my family, I started giving it away’
Most weeks, you can find Karmyn Wynyard in Auckland’s Waitakere Ranges, plucking fresh leaves from native kawakawa trees as she whispers a prayer of thanks. After harvesting what she needs, the mum-of-three heads to a nearby workshop on her parents’ five-hectare farm, where she boils the plant into a silky oil. Then, like magic, she turns it into healing skin and beauty products.
“My children have eczema and sensitive skin, so after looking at lots of solutions, I tried
