Our quarterly newsletters each feature native medicinal/edible plant information, along with articles on cultivation, book reviews, event, informational and research updates.
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
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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
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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
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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
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Autumn 2024 Newsletter – Issue #24
Dodonaea viscosa; Planting Bushfoods at Woodfordia;; Martindale Field Day, April 2024 ;Profile of indigenous business CHOCOLATE ON PURPOSE
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Summer 2023 Newsletter – Issue #23
Summer 2023 newsletter, including: Edible Succulents – Part 2 Field Day – Nov. 4, Wiseman’s Ferry Regulations & Indigenous Medicine Restoring an Acacia implexa Ecosystem; Book Review: Medicinal Agroecology; 2023 Bushfood Festival
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Winter 2023 Newsletter – Issue #22
Contents include: Edible Succulents – Part 1; Field Day at Woodfordia; Book Reviews; Edible Plants of the Queensland Coast Mistletoe Habitat Restoration
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June 2023 Newsletter – Issue #21
Newsletter contents include: Usnea Old Man’s Beard Field-Day Hunter Gardens 2023 Univ. Newscastle collaboration Uniquely Australian Foods Australian Alps Impact Submission Universal Story of the Seven Sisters 2023 Bushfood Festival
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Spring 2022 Newsletter – Issue #19
Newsletter contents include: Aromatic plants – Sustainable Uses; Field-Day-Foxbar Falls; Recipe: Spiced Lentil Soup; Indigenous Partnership: SE Arnhem Land and the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA); Field Day Wooton Valley, NSW
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Winter 2022 Newsletter – Issue #18
Our downloadable newsletter includes articles on native greens for health, native teas, Australian truffle and truffle-like fungi and garden design for bushfire resistance.
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Summer 2022 Newsletter – Issue #16
Under-utilized Crops; Future of Aussie Foods; Indigenous Foods & Medicines; Indigenous Edible & Medicinal Knowledge Cards; Sandalwood Stories; Field Day – November 2021 Book Launch – Australian Essential Oil Profiles Book Reviews; Recipe – Bushman’s Ointment
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Autumn 2022 Newsletter – Issue #17
Medicinal Plants of the Brigalow Belt; Davidson Plums Highlights; Australian Native Flowers The Grand Collection; Brief History of the Distillation of Essential Oils; Persoonia Project – Research Collaboration; Guidelines for harvesting Persoonia; Indigenous Plants for Health – Field Day May 2022; A Bushfood Conference Brisbane region on 18th – 20th August
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Spring 2021 Newsletter – Issue #15
Plants of the Queensland Granite Belt Phytochemistry of the Bush – Pt.4 Essential oils Update- Persoonia Research North Rothbury Persoonia Book review – Taste of the Outback Plants for Brisbane suburbs
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July 2021 Newsletter – Issue #14
Welcome to the West: Phytochemistry of the Bush – Pt.3 Saponins and triterpenoids; Advances for the Bushfood Industry; Wirimbili and Community Garden; Health-Promoting Plant Species for Mid-Western NSW; Edible Wattles
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April 2021 Newsletter – Issue #13
March 2021 Field Day – Pat Collins; Phytochemistry of the Bush – Pt.2 Tannins; Medicinal Roadside Weeds; Wolston Creek Flora Survey (Part2); Indigenous plants for Butterflies
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December 2020 Newsletter – Issues #11-12
November 2020 Field Day Pictures; Phytochemistry of the Bush – Pt.1 Alkaloids; Aromatherapy in Practice – Elizabeth Greenwood; Blackberry Nightshade – Pat Collins; Wolston Creek Flora Survey(Part1); Book Reviews
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| July 2020, Volume 10 | Useful Bush Plants – Pat Collins Medicinal and Edible Plant Card Project The Backyard Pharmacy – Andrew Pengelly Legal cases for Indigenous Products Drought, Fire & Flood – Wooton Medicinal Moss Under Threat Deforestation and Pandemics | |
| March-April 2020, Volume 9 | Asthma weed (Euphorbia hirta) Black stone flower (Parmotrema perlatum): A spice, a medicine, a dye, a lichen Purslane (Portulaca oleracea The Burning Summer of 2019-2020: Reports from Members Book Reviews | |
| December 2019,Volume 8 | Peanut Tree (Sterculia quadrifida) Field Day -March 2020 Book Review – Flooded Forest and Desert Creek, Red Gum Bend, The Oldest Foods on Earth, Women’s Gathering and Hunting on the Pitantjatjara Homelands Book Reviews Recipe – Lemon Myrtle Lemonade Books by Pat Collins Lichens for Food & Medicine Field Day-SPring 2019 Singleton Community Gardens | |
| September 2019, Vol.7 | Wattles (Acacia spp.) The road to market – Rob Santich, Edible Plants of Tasmania, Invasive plants-Brisbane area, Book reviews | |
| November 2018 | Paperbark (Melaleuca), Literature search-Swamp mahogany (Eucalyptus robusta) Cultivating turmeric | |
| October 2018 | Native Sarsaparilla (Smilax glyciphylla) Persoonia research update | |
| September 2018 | Red Ash (Alphitonia excelsa), Persoonia research |
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