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Australian Native Plants for Food (Bush Tucker / Indigenous Plants)

Course Summary

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Duration 100 Hours, 9 Hrs/Week
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DESCRIPTION 

Learn about identifying, growing and using Australian Indigenous Plants for Food. There are many Australian plants that are edible, and even some that are in very high demand as foods throughout the world.  The Aborigines lived off the land before white civilisation came to Australia. Plants contributed significantly to their diet.

There are many different types of bush tucker foods:

  • Nuts and seeds (eg. Acacia, Macadamia, bunya nuts)
  • Drinks (eg. hot teas, infusions of nectar laden flowers, fruit juices)
  • Flavourings (eg. lemon scented myrtle)
  • Berries (eg. Astroloma, some Solanum species)
  • Fruits (eg. quandong, Ficus macrophylla, Syzygium)
  • Vegetables
  • Wattle seeds ground to produce ‘flour’
  • Plant roots ground to produce a paste or flour.

    • LESSON STRUCTURE 

    There are eight lessons in this course:

    1. Introduction
    2. Scope
    3. Is it Edible
    4. Native Plants to be Cautious with
    5. Understanding Plant Toxins
    6. Nutritional Value of Bush tucker
    7. Plant Identification
    8. Naming Plants
    9. Hybrids, Varieties and Cultivars
    10. Plant Families
    11. Pronouncing Plant Names
    12. Resources
    13. Growing
    14. Understanding Soil
    15. Improving Soil
    16. Feeding Plants
    17. Growing Australian Plants on Low Fertility Soils
    18. Planting Procedure
    19. Mulching
    20. Pruning Australian Plants
    21. Propagation
    22. Seed
    23. Collecting, Storing, Germinating Seed
    24. Difficult Seeds
    25. Seed Germination Techniques
    26. Handling and raising seedlings
    27. Asexual Propagation (Cuttings, Division, etc)
    28. Gathering
    29. Introduction
    30. Ethics
    31. Bush Foods as A Commercial Venture
    32. Gathering Acacia Seed
    33. Developing a Bush Food Garden
    34. Designing a Bush Garden
    35. Selected Native Trees for a Bush Tucker Garden
    36. Selected Shrubs for a Bush Tucker Garden
    37. Selected Small Indigenous Australian Plants for a Bush Tucker Garden
    38. Rainforest Gardens
    39. Desert Gardens
    40. Edible Arid Zone Bush Tucker plants
    41. Water Management
    42. Nuts and Seeds
    43. Macadamia
    44. Araucaria
    45. Aleurites moluccana
    46. Athertonia diversifolia (Atherton Oak)
    47. Castanospermum australe
    48. Hicksbeachia pinnatifolia
    49. Acacias
    50. Using Acacias (eg. Wattleseed Essense)
    51. Vegetables
    52. Native Spinach (Tetragonia tetragonioides)
    53. Pigface (Carpobrotus sp.)
    54. Longleaf Mat Rush (Lomandra longifolia)
    55. Solanums (Bush Tomatoes or Kangaroo Apple)
    56. Blechnum indicum
    57. Apium prostratum (Sea Celery)
    58. Native Lilies
    59. Microseris lanceolata (Yam Daisy)
    60. Dioscorea transversa (Wild Yams)
    61. Native ginger Alpinia caerulear
    62. Seaweeds
    63. Fruits
    64. Astroloma
    65. Austromyrtus dulcis (Midgen Berry)
    66. Billardiera sp (eg. Appleberry)
    67. Davidsonia purescens (Davidson’s Plum)
    68. Eugenia spp. and Syzygium spp. (eg. Bush Cherries)
    69. Ficus (Native Figs)
    70. Planchonella australis (Black Apple)
    71. Quandong (Santalum)
    72. Rubus sp (Native Raspberry)
    73. Other Fruits ...lots more outlined
    74. Flavourings, Teas, Essences
    75. Backhousia
    76. Curcuma (related to ginger)
    77. Eucalyptus
    78. Leptospermum
    79. Soaked Flowers (eg. Grevillea)
    80. Acacia
    81. Alpinia caerulea
    82. Tasmannia sp
    83. Using Bush Tucker Plants
    84. Develop your ability to identify, select, and develop processing procedures, for a range of varieties of bush food plants selected.


    Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

    AIMS

  • Discuss the nature and scope of bush tucker plants.
  • Review the way bush tucker plants are accurately identified.
  • Describe how to cultivate a range of bush tucker plants.
  • Describe how bush foods are harvested from the wild and how to set up a cultivated bush food garden.
  • Outline the cultivation, harvest and use of various bush tucker nuts and seeds.
  • Explain the cultivation, harvest and use of various bush tucker vegetables
  • Explain the cultivation, harvest and use of various bush tucker fruits
  • Explain the cultivation, harvest and use of various bush tucker plants that are used to flavour foods or beverages
  • Describe the preparation of bush tucker.

    • DELIVERY

  • Correspondence