Bushfoods & Medicine

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Join us for an intimate journey with the plants of Country – their gifts of food, fibre and medicine. Discover the joy of being in relationship with the native plants that nourish and heal.

 

Bushfoods are super delicious and nutritious and can easily be incorporated into your diet as meals, salads and snacks. Bush medicines offer simple remedies to common ailments such as coughs, colds, burns and bites when made into teas or applied topically. Once established, natives will grow themselves, requiring no watering or fertiliser. They attract native wildlife, creating vital habitat for birds, insects and pollinators.

Join nature based Educator Leila on a tour of the Bushfoods gardens at CERES, and learn to recognise, harvest and prepare foods and medicines using honourable harvesting principles, and how to grow bushfoods at home.

The workshop will be hands on, with theory weaved into the workshop. You will receive a handout with easy to grow native plants, and their traditional uses, and simple recipes to follow at home.

 

Propagation focus: Together we will propagate native plants by seed, cutting and division, for you to take home to start your very own bushfoods garden.

 

Cooking focus: Together we harvest bushfoods, prepare them in the kitchen and share in a meal

As a non-indigenous person who has been mentored by indigenous knowledge holders of Bunurong and Palawa nations, Leila is conscious of the importance of sharing culturally appropriate knowledge and all activities will be respectful of this knowledge sharing.

 

You will learn:

·       How to grow and maintain bushfoods in the home garden

·       About the traditional and medicinal uses of natives

·       When and how to harvest using honourable harvest principles

·       How to cook with bush foods and incorporate them into your diet

·       To deepen your connection to nature through being in relationship with plants and the natural world.

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