Native plants for food and medicine

 
When:
June 26, 2021 @ 09:30 – 12:30
2021-06-26T09:30:00+10:00
2021-06-26T12:30:00+10:00
Where:
Bulleen Art and Garden
6 Manningham Rd W
Bulleen VIC 3105
Australia
Cost:
$55 ($18 per hour)
Contact:
Bulleen Art and Garden
8850 3030

What you will learn:

  • Traditional Indigenous lifestyles and healing practices pre European settlement.
  • Traditional ways of using various Indigenous plants for medicinal purposes.
  • Promising new research into their potential medical applications.

Presented by Gaby Harris. Indigenous Australians have been using native plants and animals for tens of thousands of years as sources of food and medicine. With European settlement much of this knowledge was lost or ignored, but there is now growing interest in relearning these traditional healing methods. More research is being carried out to see how we can grow, harvest and utilise our Indigenous plants for foods, medicines, cosmetics and more. This class will introduce you to some of the well-known, as well as some more obscure, Indigenous Australian plants, teach you how they were once used, and how you can use them now. You will be able to see, smell and taste a variety of these amazing plants and learn where you can find them and how to cook with them.