I don’t know if anyone has heard of Bruce Pascoe, he also lives in East Gippsland where Alan’s from. He wrote a very important book that was published a couple of years ago, Dark Emu. Has anyone heard about this?
There’s an incredible amount of information, agricultural information, to be gained from Australian aboriginal people if we care to look. It’s in all the explorers’ journals.
This old Sheila, not that old Sheila. That old woman, that old black woman, who had the genius to take a handful of seed and think about it, wake up in the morning and say, “I’m gonna grind that, see what happens.”
Now, this is another photograph that I wish all Australia could learn something about, to know something about, because, here’s old gran, old white gran, all togged up in the Sunday best, and she’s standing beside all
This is the Brewarrina fish traps. This photograph of this lad here is very important because that long fish in his hand no longer exists because soon after the photograph was taken, they dammed that river
Most amazing photo in Australia today, my brother, Jonathan Jones, who’s supposed to be an artist, he’s a very good artist, but he turned himself into an archaeologist after reading Dark Emu so that’s my grand final.
Thomas Mitchell was one of the most intelligent men in the country at that time who wasn’t black. It was all yam daisy, it was all orchids, and it was all bulbine lily, and it all grew through moss
The grain, that grain, was growing on the sand dunes of Lake Mungo in pure sand with only the available moisture that the continent can provide. We made that into flour. This is the precious sand of Lake Mungo here.
“You know nothing. You know nothing about your country or about your family, and you start with your country before you learn about your family.” This is where explorers, early settlers saw Aboriginal people harvesting grain,
As Soil Lovers we respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of all the lands on which we work and pay our respects to the Elders past present and emerging.
When caring for your land take a moment in stillness to respect the wisdom your land is sharing with you.
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