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Contents
This newsletter issue includes:
- Calling Bushfoodies. Australian Bushfood Conference 2025
- NAIDOC Workshop, Wiradjuri Cultural Centre
- Yarning garden project update
- Wattle Workshop in Granite Belt
- Connect with river red gum through ceramics
- Pat Collins at HerbFest
- Native plants winter regional gathering
Highlights
Making native plant first aid kits at Wiradjuri Cultural Centre
Pat Collins ran a great workshop in Kandos on July 6th for NAIDOC week.
Participants made first aid kits using as many native plants as possible. Pat made tinctures using native medicinal plants including lemon myrtle (Backhousia citriodora), Usnea and sticky hop bush (Dodonaea viscosa).
These tinctures were combined a base of aqueous cream participants made to create an antiseptic and anti-inflammatory cream. We also made a native ointment for skin problems and an insect repellent cream that included a weed called stinking roger (Tagetes minuta) plus another ointment for sinus issues uses a weed called inkweed (Phytolacca octandra).
They also made five different capsules such as charcoal for poisoning and diarrhoea, and native mountain pepper (Tasmannia lanceolata) used for digestive issues, anti-inflammatory etc. We made many other products so that the students took home 16 items each.
Connecting with River Red Gum through Ceramics! By Reesa Ryan
Broke Bulga Landcare has been active for over 25 years, in the Upper Hunter NSW. One of their projects has been to restore the River Red Gums, a variation of Eucalyptus camaldulensis, along the lower Wollombi Brook. Since colonization the country was cleared for cattle, then official business denied the River Red Gum had ever lived there.
In a one-day workshop run by Broke Bulga Landcare on the banks of the Wollombi Brook, local artist Elisa Krey from Krefarer Ceramics instructed participants in how to make a piece in the form of a River Red Gum flower bud.
The ceramic flower buds we all created on the day were fired by Elisa and made available for pick up as a permanent reminder of our local beautiful River Red Gum.
Indigenous Plants for Health, Inc. 