Your Green Prescription

15/12/2024

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Detox December... well at least the first two weeks leading up to the Festive season 🌿💚 Less processed things and the addition of some great seasonal…

13/12/2024

Harvesting my Murnong seed today... Year 3= 60+ seeds 🌼🌿

Success rate is normally 22 out of 200 plants survive.

Doesn't like too much water, needs adequate water, no weeds either side of it, needs air pockets for the 2-3 tier root system to grow into, (used to be done by women harvesting the tubers with digging sticks & small animals like bandicoots which are rarer on the ground these days...

Isn't a plant that handles translocation to easily... But thankfully has parachute like weighted seeds that land where they grow and often are weighted down by shifting soil or natural leaf litter, like a natural hothouse.

I call it a "Diva" plant... but so important to keep it going as one of the major food sources for indigenous peoples across VIC and NSW and scattered around other states.

Do me a favour? Grow some or gift one this year!

09/12/2024

Fellow educators, teachers & all interested parties... Don't forget to get in early & purchase your tickets for the .nest.project conference 2025, coming up early next year..

This is a wonderful opportunity to learn from First Nations people and help you feel more comfortable sharing within the education space in our shared communities!

Tickets go pretty fast so check out .nest.project IG account for details & the much covered tickets 🌿👣
.nest.project #2025

04/12/2024

First day off in a very lonnnng time... Winding down for the year and looking forward to moments of creating that "flow" state.

Time to slowdown and reflect on the past year & weave my intentions for the coming year 😘

Will checking emails sporadically but my inbox will beautiful mindful one, with the sense of urgency banned.

Mindful, not Mind FULL

Have a great Hump day everyone
I hope you all have a moment to do something enjoyable and catch some sun rays ☀️

27/11/2024

Little project...worked on my emu caller 🪶

A labour of love & patience.

This was commissioned & made by a Wiradjuri person on Wiradjuri country 🌿👣

Imitates the sound of a male emu running on the ground. So whilst the emu is off looking for an imposter emu (queue sound of emu caller), your mate had a chance to grab an egg or two-only what was needed. Leaving the next generation 🥚🐣

Other than some sanding down (well a lot actually) to smooth it out I wanted to leave it close to it's natural state. So kids can see that it comes from a tree.

I don't do dots, I leave that for the desert mob, so I traced the natural grains in the wood 🪵 than used a wood burner to add this in. Fun process & a great educational resources

24/11/2024

Stepping into your power... Not easy Taking up Space & combating Imposter Syndrome, but much easier to do in the company of some beautiful, strong matriachs... No competition, just supporting each other as we continue on our individual journeys and collaboration on projects!

Grateful!

October/November has been extremely busy, but incredibly rewarding.

🌿Our team were nominated for a Vice Chancellors award for our work with Monash

🌿Myself and acquired a first=a non tertiary based Industry Fellowship, subject to the usual application processes (8 months within our applications!)

🌿On a personal level; reached x4 years as a licensed Wayapa wuurk practitioner celebrating this by conducting a session on my grandmother's Country & my 18th public facing wuurkshop (including )

🌿🌼👣Close to 600 workshops 🤯
*Native Plants
*Bushdye
*Bushfoods
*Nature Journalling
*How to Acknowledge Country respectfully
*Indigenous Gardening

Here's to Strong women 💪 I am blessed to be in the company of many 🤩

05/11/2024

Preparation for the take home Murnong growing kits rounds of paperbark used to create a cone or a natural hothouse for Murnong seedlings, Those involved in the Learning from the Land project with for the launch of the children's art mural transfer at Dandenong Primary School, beautiful community lunch-Afghan feast put on by the parents/volunteers of the Community hub.

What a team effort & the students where so keen to learn!

Thank you to uncle for the smoking ceremony 🔥
for the engaging session

16/10/2024

🤍 CINNAMON MYRTLE 🤍

Cinnamon Myrtle (aka. Carrol, Grey Myrtle, Ironwood, Neverbreak, Australian Lancewood) is a native hardwood that was popularised as a bushfood in the late 1980s. Its leaves give off a cinnamon fragrance when rubbed or crushed.

Cinnamon Myrtle leaves may be used in place of conventional cinnamon spice to flavour curries, stews, soups, roasts, ribs and sauces. In desserts, they add a warm, earthy flavour to pies, biscuits, sweets, pastries and slices. They may also be used fresh or dried, steeped in hot water, to make a herbal tea.

You can also buy our Cinnamon Myrtle Native Dried Herb on our website. It's the perfect way to introduce traditional bush food flavours into your cooking!

16/10/2024

Little entry into my Nature diary 🌿👣

14/10/2024

Taking a break...

Returning on the 24th October

Will intermittently check emails; [email protected]

Any time sensitive enquiries can be directed to;
0477 980 127

Thanks,
Kylie 🌿👣

27/09/2024

Have you tried making your own natural diffuser? A much less toxic version can easily be made from local native plants. I collected sticks from the ground…

22/09/2024

It's a wrap for now.... Finished my series of Botanical Native drawings which will be installed as part of a Public Art installation in the new suburb of Bradfield (near new Sydney Airport precinct) on Dharug country-Cumberland Plains area.

These will be 3D printed and places in giant glass test tubes with various plant cross sections and will feature Dharug language for the plant names

This will continue on until December 2026 when the precinct is finished.

Restoring wetlands and remnant plants of the area with housing built around a Central Park

18/09/2024

It's that time of the year again...
~Karkalla
~Pigface

Flowers are out and that salty sweet fruit is coming!
My sister and I have always thought that the tip where the fruit emerges looks like lobster claws 😁🦞

Leaves are my best friend in summer when I catch a bit too much sun ☀️ or when those damn mozzies and Marsh flies nab me, better than Aloe vera juice/plant.

I stir-fry the leaves with some sesame oil & tamari and love them pickled as an accompaniment to almost anything, especially on mushroom burgers or with a steak Sando.

Those flowers though open in the morning and closing at night one of the best time guides I know establishing the AM from the PM

Holding our fragile sand banks together, attracting the Birds and the Bees, especially our sti gless native bees who only produce a kilo of honey twice per a year= liquid gold 🪙🍯

Note; identify this native plant correctly as so many cross hybrid and toxic non natives around, if you grow them at home seek out your local indigenous nursery who grow local endemic stock and check it is a true native. Lots of non natives yellow offenders around my area too 😬

09/09/2024

Creating a natural, grassy, smokey flavoured Coastal Grey Saltbush for a bush foods class tonight...

Perfect in a damper & a great salt substitute 🌿👣

24/08/2024

Eco dyeing raffia using seaberry saltbush berries to create two different colourings using different methods.

So vibrant & enjoyable crushing the berries by hand

24/08/2024

Weekend away for some much needed rest & getting my; *vitamin sea 🌊
*Vitamin D 🌤️
and... *Vitamin Tree 🌳

Enjoy your weekend & enjoy some outdoors time if you can!
Kylie 🌿👣

31/07/2024

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