Growing and Cooking with Bushfoods

Australian Bush foods are super delicious, nutritious and medicinal. They can be easily incorporated into your diet, in snacks, salads, cooking, teas and much more. Once established, natives will grow themselves, requiring no watering or fertiliser. They attract native wildlife, creating vital habitat for birds, insects and pollinators.
Join nature based Educator Leila as we tour the Bush Foods gardens at CERES, learn to recognise and harvest local native foods, and then collectively prepare them in the kitchen. 
This workshop will be hands on, with theory weaved into the workshop. You will receive a handout with common bush food plants and simple recipes.

You will learn:

• How to grow and maintain bush food plants
• When and how to harvest using honourable harvest principles
• How to cook with bush foods and incorporate them into your diet
• Deepen your connection to nature through being in relationship with plants and the natural world.

Trainer Profiles

Since childhood, Leila has connected deeply with nature, especially food and medicine plants. She’s a life-long experimental gardener and has developed a unique style of low-work, no-dig, forest gardening. She has transformed her urban rental into a food forest growing over 100 types of plants. Leila lives for slow and simple abundance, and is dedicated to inspiring and supporting others to create wild, edible gardens that connect us in profound ways to the earth, self and spirit. Her business, Barefoot Food Gardens, offers open gardens, consultation, education, and garden co-creation collaborations. A seasoned educator, Leila encourages learning with hands, heads and hearts, in creative and interactive ways, that support opportunities for deep connections with nature. Leila is also a mother, poet, community activator, writer and barefoot forager.