An excerpt from our latest newsletter, reporting on the May 2026 Field Day & Workshop in Mapleton, QLD.
Summer 2025 Newsletter – Issue #30
President’s chat; Plants for the New Year; IPHA Committee members and vacancies; Introducing New Committee Member; Bush Fruit Field Day. Mapleton, Qld; Cyanotype Botanical Workshop; IPHA field day at Yarrawa hall report; Persoonia conservation and the power of community; Yarning Garden Project Update; Turning Pineapple Leaves into Beautiful Fabric; Grassroots Botany for Herbalists report; Food and Medicine Sovereignty - Groups Making a Difference; Visit to West Woombye
November 2025 Field Day – Hunter Valley
Pat Collins' report on the IPHA November field day - good food, knowledge and garden-building.
Spring 2025 Newsletter – Issue #29
iNaturalist - uses and community; Upper Hunter Field Day 22nd November 2025; Grassroots Botany for Herbalists 2nd November 2025; National Bushfoods Conference, 8th-9th November; Quiet Giants: Rough Tree Fern in Art and Story;: Yarning garden project update; Opening of new visitor’s centre, Girraween National Park; Wattle Workshop in Granite Belt
Winter 2025 Newsletter – Issue #28
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
Autumn 2025 Newsletter – Issue #27
Field Day Report - Somersby NSW, April 2025; The Planting Weekend, Woodford; Yarning garden project update; Chocolate lilies; Euphorbia hirta in Art and Story; Vacancies
Late summer 2025 newsletter – Issue #26
Our next Field Day; Our new Committee Member Renata Buziak; National Symposium on Australian Traditional Medicine ;report News from Woodfordia IPHA Queensland Field Day Report; Engaging with First Nations People About Indigenous Plants; 2025 IPHA funded project update
October 2024 Field Day Highlights
Our final 2024 field day was rich in information, experience and relationship-building. Here are some highlights - the full report will be in our next newsletter
Spring 2024 Newsletter – Issue #25
September newsletter highlights, including resources on The Heliozelid Moth and Boronia Flower; and how bunya and black bean tress were "waled" across country
Youth Yarning Garden, Yiliyapinya Indigenous Corporation in Brisbane
IPHA is funding the development of a Youth Yarning Garden for health and healing, in partnership with with Yiliyapinya Indigenous Corporation
Indigenous Plants for Health, Inc. 