Posing an opening question, “What is Bush tucker or Bush Food?” the Bush Tucker site then goes on to give the answer—native food of Australian aborigines. Talk about your loaded questions!

O’Connell first came to the area in 1989. At the time, she had been working as a horticulturist at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. John Taft, a Ventura real estate developer, was intrigued ...

Researchers have confirmed what Indigenous Australians already knew: native plants have great healing properties. Two plants have been found to heal wounds quickly and efficiently, paving the way ...

Food, tools and medicine: 5 native plants that illuminate deep Aboriginal ... I’m also better understanding the broader Australian community’s failure to recognise the depth and breadth of our ...

While we all love Vegemite and lamingtons, there’s another side to Australian food that we often don’t talk about, let alone eat on a day-to-day basis.

A secluded bay on Kangaroo Island, Australia. 4FR/iStock. On an expansive property on the gloriously wild Kangaroo Island, near the western shore of the island’s Eastern Cove, I stood in the ...

My “Native Bush Tucker” project focuses primarily on marsupial animals. When completed, it will be an online database to aid the study of what people ate in the past with the goal of including ...