Do you know much about our native bush fruits and other foods? Do you know where you can buy bush fruit or how it gets to market?
4ZZZ's Eliot Rifkin chatted about new support being developed for our Indigenous communities aiding them in getting their produce to both domestic and international markets with Yasmina Sultanbawa of UQs ARC Training Centre for Uniquely Australian Foods. Visit Yasmina Sultana’s bio and to learn of more projects at UQ’s ARC Training Centre - visit Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
For a deep dive…
Click on the following links to learn how the collaboration of these Indigenous community advisors and Indigenous Enterprise groups across Australia, food industry entrepreneurs and UQ's ARC research team are creating an Indigenous empowered food sector based on these bush fruits. Here’s other Indigeous food products and projects
Movin to Country – an Indigenous owned, led and controlled Kakadu plum value chain based on Yasmina’s research work is showcased here. Here’s how Madonna Thomson, Uniquely Australian Foods’ Indigenous Enterprise Group Chair celebrated NAIDOC week.
…and if you’d like to purchase Bush food online - visit any these Indigenous owned companies:
Eliot Rifkin is a Journalist and Producer on Thursday Brisbane Line