 Taua would typically restrict their activity to the fighting season, between late November and early April, when food and fishing was plentiful.During the height of the musket wars Taua were away from their turangawaiwai for up to a year.By 1830 they were no longer dependent on traditional crops such as kumara which only grew well in the north most part of North Island, the Iwi now grew large quantities of more easily grown potatoes.