Growing Bush Foods In Your Garden contains over 90 bush foods that you can grow in the garden. Over 180 photographs help you to get to know these bush foods. This book details the traditional uses and scientifically researched health benefits of bush foods, as well as their ideal growing conditions- so you can choose plants that best suit your garden!
The book includes the plant sections: herbs and grasses, vines and groundcovers, shrubs and trees, as well as some First Nations peoples’ recollections of their learnings of bush food knowledge.
The authors’ experience with bush foods has been life long, with Pete, (a First Nations Awabakal man), spending a lot of time in the bush and Cate, (an ecologist), growing native plants and bush foods most of her adult life. They have also been growing bush foods commercially for the last ten years.
Life experience, connections with First Nations people who have shared their knowledge about bush foods and plenty of research, have resulted in this useful, interesting and easy to read guide about growing bush foods.
