If you want to grow, cultivate or use bush tucker plants to flavor foods and beverages, then this course was made for you! This online Australian bush foods course will teach you that and more, such as identifying bush tucker plants accurately, how to harvest it from the wild and set up your own cultivated bush food garden, and the various uses bush tucker plants can provide.
Learn to grow Australian Bush Foods (Bush Tucker Plants) in this online course
Learn about identifying, growing and using Australian Indigenous Plants for Food. This is a growing horticultural area with many bush foods that are edible becoming very high demand throughout the world.
Course Outline:
Introduction
Scope
Is it Edible
Native Plants to be Cautious with
Understanding Plant Toxins
Nutritional Value of Bush tucker
Plant Identification
Naming Plants
Hybrids, Varieties and Cultivars
Plant Families
Pronouncing Plant Names
Resources
Growing
Understanding Soil
Improving Soil
Feeding Plants
Growing Australian Plants on Low Fertility Soils
Planting Procedure
Mulching
Pruning Australian Plants
Propagation
Seed
Collecting, Storing, Germinating Seed
Difficult Seeds
Seed Germination Techniques
Handling and raising seedlings
Asexual Propagation (Cuttings, Division, etc)
Gathering
Introduction
Ethics
Bush Foods as A Commercial Venture
Gathering Acacia Seed
Developing a Bush Food Garden
Designing a Bush Garden
Selected Native Trees for a Bush Tucker Garden
Selected Shrubs for a Bush Tucker Garden
Selected Small Indigenous Australian Plants for a Bush Tucker Garden
Rainforest Gardens
Desert Gardens
Edible Arid Zone Bush Tucker plants
Water Management
Nuts and Seeds
Macadamia
Araucaria
Aleurites moluccana
Athertonia diversifolia (Atherton Oak)
Castanospermum australe
Hicksbeachia pinnatifolia
Acacias
Using Acacias (eg. Wattleseed Essense)
Vegetables
Native Spinach (Tetragonia tetragonioides)
Pigface (Carpobrotus sp.)
Longleaf Mat Rush (Lomandra longifolia)
Solanums (Bush Tomatoes or Kangaroo Apple)
Blechnum indicum
Apium prostratum (Sea Celery)
Native Lilies
Microseris lanceolata (Yam Daisy)
Dioscorea transversa (Wild Yams)
Native ginger Alpinia caerulea
Seaweeds
Fruits
Astroloma
Austromyrtus dulcis (Midgen Berry)
Billardiera sp (eg. Appleberry)
Davidsonia purescens (Davidson’s Plum)
Eugenia spp. and Syzygium spp. (eg. Bush Cherries)
Ficus (Native Figs)
Planchonella australis (Black Apple)
Quandong (Santalum)
Rubus sp (Native Raspberry)
Other Fruits …lots more outlined
Flavourings, Teas, Essences
Backhousia
Curcuma (related to ginger)
Eucalyptus
Leptospermum
Soaked Flowers (eg. Grevillea)
Acacia
Alpinia caerulea
Tasmannia sp
Using Bush Tucker Plants
Develop your ability to identify, select, and develop processing procedures, for a range of varieties of bush food plants selected.
If you want to grow, cultivate or use bush tucker plants to flavor foods and beverages, then this course was made for you! This online Australian bush foods course will teach you that and more, such as identifying bush tucker plants accurately, how to harvest it from the wild and set up your own cultivated bush food garden, and the various uses bush tucker plants can provide.
Learn to grow Australian Bush Foods (Bush Tucker Plants) in this online course
Learn about identifying, growing and using Australian Indigenous Plants for Food. This is a growing horticultural area with many bush foods that are edible becoming very high demand throughout the world.
Course Outline:
Introduction
Scope
Is it Edible
Native Plants to be Cautious with
Understanding Plant Toxins
Nutritional Value of Bush tucker
Plant Identification
Naming Plants
Hybrids, Varieties and Cultivars
Plant Families
Pronouncing Plant Names
Resources
Growing
Understanding Soil
Improving Soil
Feeding Plants
Growing Australian Plants on Low Fertility Soils
Planting Procedure
Mulching
Pruning Australian Plants
Propagation
Seed
Collecting, Storing, Germinating Seed
Difficult Seeds
Seed Germination Techniques
Handling and raising seedlings
Asexual Propagation (Cuttings, Division, etc)
Gathering
Introduction
Ethics
Bush Foods as A Commercial Venture
Gathering Acacia Seed
Developing a Bush Food Garden
Designing a Bush Garden
Selected Native Trees for a Bush Tucker Garden
Selected Shrubs for a Bush Tucker Garden
Selected Small Indigenous Australian Plants for a Bush Tucker Garden
Rainforest Gardens
Desert Gardens
Edible Arid Zone Bush Tucker plants
Water Management
Nuts and Seeds
Macadamia
Araucaria
Aleurites moluccana
Athertonia diversifolia (Atherton Oak)
Castanospermum australe
Hicksbeachia pinnatifolia
Acacias
Using Acacias (eg. Wattleseed Essense)
Vegetables
Native Spinach (Tetragonia tetragonioides)
Pigface (Carpobrotus sp.)
Longleaf Mat Rush (Lomandra longifolia)
Solanums (Bush Tomatoes or Kangaroo Apple)
Blechnum indicum
Apium prostratum (Sea Celery)
Native Lilies
Microseris lanceolata (Yam Daisy)
Dioscorea transversa (Wild Yams)
Native ginger Alpinia caerulea
Seaweeds
Fruits
Astroloma
Austromyrtus dulcis (Midgen Berry)
Billardiera sp (eg. Appleberry)
Davidsonia purescens (Davidson’s Plum)
Eugenia spp. and Syzygium spp. (eg. Bush Cherries)
Ficus (Native Figs)
Planchonella australis (Black Apple)
Quandong (Santalum)
Rubus sp (Native Raspberry)
Other Fruits …lots more outlined
Flavourings, Teas, Essences
Backhousia
Curcuma (related to ginger)
Eucalyptus
Leptospermum
Soaked Flowers (eg. Grevillea)
Acacia
Alpinia caerulea
Tasmannia sp
Using Bush Tucker Plants
Develop your ability to identify, select, and develop processing procedures, for a range of varieties of bush food plants selected.
Why Study this Australian Bush Foods Course?
Why Study this Australian Bush Foods Course?
