The solution

Leading up to its re-launch on Sunday 30th March 2025, the Bush Tucker Garden was revitalised & given much needed love & attention. We wanted to adopt the Bush Tucker Garden as a unique Landcare & Cultural site, to ensure its longevity into the future.

This has enabled us to:

• utilise the site for workshops, Landcare training, & Cultural practices,
• provide a shared cultural space for Indigenous & non-Indigenous people in the Singleton LGA, to learn about & participate in cultural land management practices.
• maintain the bush tucker garden beds, with HRLN staff & develop a Landcare Group of local volunteers that could meet regularly,
• work in collaboration with local Aboriginal community Elders & groups to provide guidance & a framework to ensure a productive bush tucker garden for the community,
• empowered local volunteers to take effective action & assume leadership roles in the sustainable development of their communities & landscapes.

In the past few years, we have hosted many bush tucker workshops for Landcarers & the wider community, this has enabled us to:

• establish genuine working relationships with people of knowledge & experience,
• create & enhance opportunities for Aboriginal people to connect with & engage in cultural activities & practices on Country (LEP objective),
• introduce Landcarers to cultural land management practices,
• build the capacity of Landcarers in plant identification & native plant uses, local to their Landcare site.