The original owner of the landblock was Hereora Broughton (nee Taueki) eldest child of Taueki the eponymous leader of the local Muaupoko Iwi and wife of prominent English settler Charles William Broughton.
The landblock has taken on many faces spanning a period of 125 years. Since its partitioning by Judge Gilbert Main of the Native Court in 1905, the land was first leased the following year to a group of local market gardening families for almost 80 years. In 1984 the long lease tenure finally ended. The Trustees obtained a development loan through the Department of Maori Affairs and the landblock was transformed into a Kiwifruit orchard and became Hereora Development Trust later that same year.
The Trust finally cleared the landblock of Kiwifruit in 1992-93. They re-leased the landblock back into market gardens in 1994 with the Jung Family, which has survived up to the present day (2021).