Lilly Pilly and metabolic musings; Bushfood Yarning & Tasting at the Seven Valleys Wild Food Festival; Bush Fruit Field Day, Mapleton; Geebung: Nourishment, Lineage and Art; Events and News of Interest
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May 2026 Bush Fruit Field Day – Mapleton, QLD
An excerpt from our latest newsletter, reporting on the May 2026 Field Day & Workshop in Mapleton, QLD.
Summer 2025 Newsletter – Issue #30
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
Acacia spp Part 1 – Information Sheet
Acacia is a genus of over 1,000 species native to Australia. For the profiles four species have been selected on the basis of their health-promoting properties and suitability for agroecological systems. Part 1 covers the descriptions and distribution, nutritional status and phytochemistry of the four selected species, with special focus on the nutrient profile of A. victoriae and the polyphenols and tannins in A. mearnsii, A. decurrens and A. implexa.
