Your Green Prescription

08/04/2025

Recently touched down on Darug lands...

Got to collaborate with Clarence Slockee from Gardening Australia, Muru Mittigar Nursery, NSW government department of planning & mob to do a planting workshop on riverside area around the Female Factory grounds where large scale clearing project and re-installation of traditional plants being undertaken.

Restoring our natural remnant plants and reclaiming the river health.

All ages Intergenerational and nice to see the kids playing along the river.

Grateful I had the means to be in attendance, as is not always the case for our people who are living off country.

Moments like these are priceless 🌿👣

07/04/2025

Bush food carrier... Narrendjerri style 🌿👣🪡

22/03/2025

22/03/2025

A great couple of days spent at the annual Bundjils Nest Educators Conference at Balnarring on Bunurong Country (Boon Wurrung speaking peoples)...

Great weather and a few visits sighted of 🦅

Thanks to the beautiful committee who put this event together and allow so many amazing First Nations facilitators to present. Well done you mob 💪 🔥

Good weather, great people attending, committee, music, dance, yidaki & food provided by Mabu Mabu 👏🌿👣

17/03/2025

Good morning beautiful people... Who is coming along to .nest.project for the Educators Conference at Balnarring?

Prepping some Native Hibiscus 🌺 flowers in preparation for the Sorry Day workshop)session.

The Native Hibiscus is the flower chosen by the Kimberly Stolen Generations to represent the resilience and fragility of our Stolen Generation survivors.

Such a beautiful way to represent them all this delicate but strong flower grows in desert like conditions and will grow in various parts of Oz.

Can be made as a brooch, a wristband or necklace any way you wish to creatively express yourselves or the young people you work with!

It can be made very simply or as complex as you would like it to be.
Mindful activity with an opportunity to reach that "flow" state.

Utilising recycled clothing, op shopped fabrics or new Eco fabrics (which I supply)

I like to honour my aunties and elders by coming together as a group, creating them and gifting them on 🌺🌸💕

12/03/2025

Just another day in the office...

Love what I do 😍

07/03/2025

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03/03/2025

Studio days.... 👩‍🎨🪡

Some Botanical inspo & dreamy colours

Love playing around in this space!

Happy Tuesday everyone ☀️

03/03/2025

Seaberry season 🌿👣

24/02/2025

This year I am encouraging everyone to save some money & increase protein and iron by growing and harvesting their own salt and pepper...

Whilst you need a male and female pepper tree to produce the peppercorns, the leaves are often overlooked and you can grow a tree in a pot and trim it to the size you want. I dry the leaves and you can blitz it for 30 seconds in a blender and you have beautiful pepper.

So many different types of Saltbush, with old man saltbush able to grow almost anywhere.
I pick it as I need it and you can dry it naturally, or if you want to use it straight away about 20 minutes in the oven on 180* (160* for fan forced oven. Remove stalks and break leaves up or blitz it for 30 seconds and you have salt powder.

***Disclaimer don't use copious amounts of saltbush at one time as it can be unsettling for the stomach. I used no more than a cup a day for a guide***

16/02/2025

Last two weeks was a steep learning curve for the RMIT Brunswick with the co-hort for KHT Blak Design 2025

This was a shirt from the Op Shop pulled apart-deconstructed, with a pattern drafted from it and re-made with recycled fabric.

Added in some of my seaberry dyed material and a Eco dyed native Hyacinth (the chosen flower to represent the stolen generation)

Two weeks ago had not touched a sewing machine... Sometimes it is good to push ourselves out of our comfort zone 🪡

19/01/2025

Little weaved bowl with matching lid and if course a quandong handle 😉

Such a relaxing practice

Creative things are so important to me & it's always good to reach that flow state!

15/01/2025

Apologies for difficulties in reaching myself via 📱 phone, my phone is not working properly which means I am unable to make or receive phone calls. So, messenger calls, SMS/text or email is the only way to contact myself currently.

I am in a regional area on country with no shops to buy a new one or have it repaired.

Back in Melbourne on Friday where I will be able to sort this!

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!