I am alway fascinated by people’s relationship with plants, their importance and their place in the native landscape, and yes I am a bit of an unashamed plant geek. The stories of plants and their place is so important; not just for people, but as they are the basis of so many species’ existence. By…
Tag: bush tucker
Edible bush flowers- the colourful kapok
I just posted about the wonderful Kapok tree (Cochlospermum fraserii) which is in flower now. When I heard it was edible I put it in a pretty basic salad on a fishing trip. Since then I tried it in a very local salad using Snake beans grown in Humpty Doo (steamed and cooled), just hard…
Top Ten of The Top End Bush Tuckers (plant based)
Just now it is an amazing time to be out and about in our native landscapes, which I have been doing over the last few weeks, with work and bushwalking. Our native plants are incredible and many are flowering after the last rains. Sadly I did not take my good camera walking, but nearer town…
Our red bush apple- which isn’t an apple at all
Syzygium suborbiculare or Red Bush Apple in English, Bemburrtyak In Malak Malak, Gorokkorokkin in Waigaman, Mindilima in Larrakia, Migemininy in Nauiya and Jaruk in Jawoyn and I am sure it has many more names… So this awesome coloured fruit is right now in our beautiful bush- to be more specific in open woodland, this fruit…
Bush Tucker (Cocky Apple) on toast
The Cocky Apple, also known as Wulngum (Malak Malak), Pindaylany (Matngala), Mangal or Pamkujji (Jawoyn) has a botanical name of Planchonia careya is in the family Lecythidaceae. It is a common understory plant found in our beautiful savannah or open woodland landscapes. It is a calendar plant and only fruits once a year- which is…
Toad legs- the new delicacy in feral food?
In the past the GULP team have discussed the various contents of the cook book that will emerge from this wonderful community based local food project. We would like to set the book out to be produce focused and look at the ingredients that we grow, then from this the recipes are written, and include…
Bush Tucker (Super) smoothies
I recently wrote about the abundant Terminalia ferdinandiana, which is a wonderful commonly occurring tree in our Savanna woodland, that is fruiting right now. It is well known to contain really high amounts of vitamin C. The Conservation Land Management Students, studying with Yvette at Greening Australia had been collecting the seed to save and propagate…
A Darwin Dog’s Dinner
So to cut along story short, we have a big mob of dogs right now (4), which soon will be three- the ones photographed below. We share the love with our neighbours who are dog free! It’s pretty popular to have a dog in Darwin, in fact there seems to be an overload sometimes, ones…
A Taste of The Tiwi- part two
The Tiwi islands really are a beautiful place and our time with the rangers was fantastic. Amongst other projects we also visited another farm near Milakarpati, this community has a barge less often and so fresh food is not as regularly received The farm is owned by Tiwi enterprises and supplies food to the shop at…
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