Enviro Science 

You Are What You Eat!

It is strange to think that most of us know more about growing and eating food plants that come from the other side of the world than we do about the plants that have been farmed here for thousands of years.

This term in Environmental Science, students have been learning about places and practices that inform our identity (that "make me who I am").

We have read from Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors, including Wurundjeri elder, Aunty Joy Murphy; Yuin, Bunurong & Tasmanian writer and farmer, Bruce Pascoe; and non-Indigenous writer & illustrator (and Ian's mum), Jeanie Adams.

As well as caring for Yakai Barring, senior students have been involved in landscape design, planning and have begun work on signs for our new food garden area that was planted by our community at the last working bee - the Bushfood Garden.

The term "bushfood" is a bit misleading in a way, because it makes us think of foods that just grow pretty randomly in the "bush", when in fact, these are food plants that have been deliberately farmed, harvested, stored, and prepared by Indigenous people for thousands of years.

We hope to learn more about these local "bush foods" as we grow, harvest and prepare food with them, so that they might become part of our "normal foods" in the future!

Ian & Shal