Yield LOT 7:
Taste and Sensory Exploration of Indigenous Bush Botanical Workshop.
A Cultural and Culinary Native Food Storyline, where we embark on a journey to discover the vibrant flavours, aromas, and cultural significance of Indigenous Australian Native Botanicals and Bush Foods. Our program focuses on five culturally significant and uniquely Australian Bush Foods.
Pepper Berry, Mountain Pepper, Strawberry Gum, Bunya Nuts and Wattleseed
Duration: 1/2-day workshop 3hrs– bespoke shorter workshops are available by arrangement.
Program Outline:
We warmly welcome participants with an acknowledgment of Country, grounding exercise and provide an overview of the days sensory experiences.
*We ask if any participants have hearing or dietary requirements for them to identified prior.
Highlighting the importance of sensory exploration in understanding Indigenous culture and the significance of Native Foods as an addition to holistic health and social emotional wellbeing within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Culture. Indigenous Cultural Overview: Presentation / discussion on the cultural significance, traditional uses and how to use Bush Botanicals and spices in a contemporary setting of your own kitchen. We explore: Pepper Berry, Mountain Pepper, Strawberry Gum, Bunya Pine/ Nuts and Wattleseed.
* Please note, some Bush Botanicals can be substituted or omitted due to availability and dietary requirements
Explore the spiritual, medicinal, and culinary roles of these botanicals in Indigenous communities in the past and now in a contemporary setting.
Food Foraging Experience: Guided foraging excursion (if feasible and permitted), led by our Indigenous guides and knowledgeable experts (sourced locally were available). Participants will observe and learn about the native plants and learn how they would go about starting a Native Food Garden on Country.
Please note, we are a Wiradjuri Community Business and at times work off Country with our Elders support and guidance. We would never share knowledge of other Aboriginal Clans or languages outside our people’s country.
Plants are supplied for each participant on request.
Touch, Taste, and Smell Session: Interactive sensory session featuring the Five Bush Botanicals. Participants will engage in a tactile exploration, feeling the textures of leaves, berries, seeds and nuts of each of the bush foods. Guided tasting session to experience the unique flavours and aromas of Pepper Berry, Mountain Pepper, Strawberry Gum, Wattleseed and Bunya Nuts. Facilitated discussion on the sensory attributes of each ingredient, including flavour profiles, scent notes, and textural qualities. While our participants start to fully comprehend the endless possibilities of bush foods. They will explore further the many flavours and usages. By blending your own cheese, teas, dips and butter combinations that can be achieved with bush foods.
*Please have participants bring a small lunch box with ice brick for their creations.
Our host Jackie Price a proud Wiradjuri woman from Cootamundra will invite everyone on a cultural exchange and storytelling of their own. Each guest will be encouraged to share their own food history and culture as they feel comfortable to do so. As cultural educators we believe sharing is not a one-way street, “for your cup to be filled” “so must we be willing to fill others “via Cultural Exchange and Storytelling This opportunity opens a safe space for shared experiences, reflections, and questions inspired by the sensory exploration. Reflection and Integration: Closing Ceremony This is the only part of the program, where we speak our native language off Country with the respect and guidance of our Elders. We take a moment of gratitude and honour our Indigenous lands, any other Aboriginal brothers and sisters that walked with us today and our fellow knowledge keepers with us now.
We leave you with “Yindyamarra” respect for yourself, for others and for a land worth living in as we continue our healing of Country.
We have have put this workshop together at the request of many of our ongoing partners that have gained a deeper respect for Indigenous knowledge, traditions, and the interconnectedness of all living beings as they have walked beside us and working with us as Yield Lot 7
All booking via info@yieldlot7.com.
With a 15 person per workshop minimum.
Yield Lot 7 and Little Bush Kitchens #Bushfooddreaming @ yieldlot7.com 0409818246