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Hartley Bush Tucker

Locality: Hartley, New South Wales

Phone: +61 409 933 158

Address: 102 Blackmans Creek Rd 2790 Hartley, NSW, Australia

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25.01.2022 A $2,000 boomerang by Chanel? The Wiradjuri word for boomerang is "bagan". But at this price it hardly seems like a bargain to us. Someone should tell them they're dreaming.

25.01.2022 Here's a sample of Aboriginal chef Sharon Winsor's latest food tourism event, this time in Kakadu. We're looking forward to seeing how what she'll cook up from December here with Wiradjuri Mob collaborators (we expect silver perch, eel and yabbies will feature prominently on the menu...but as always expect the unexpected)

24.01.2022 It's great to see John O'Sullivan maintain Tourism Australia's focus on bush tucker. Today, TA published a series of web videos as snapshots of Restaurant Australia campaign experiences, including this.

24.01.2022 Inspiration can come from the most unlikely places. If former Mambo business guru Dare Jennings can build an integrated brand incorporating an auto shop, clothing store and cafe (on the economic principle of "related variety"), imagine what can be achieved if an Aboriginal food tourism experience leverages sales and employment opportunities for dillybag weavers, branded FMCG food, catering, accommodation, creative arts, language courses, and other integrated micro-businesses. https://www.intheblack.com/articl/2013//25/the-deus-effect

23.01.2022 Douglas Purdie, do you know any Indigenous apiarists who live around the Blue Mountains or Central Tablelands district (NSW) who want to be part of something special? We're keen to incorporate a (stingless) native Australian honey experience at Hartley Bush Tucker from December 2nd and want to offer an Aboriginal person an opportunity to launch their own microbusiness. This would suit a person who's keen to learn from Hartley apiarist Keith Parker, collaborate with Indigenous chef Sharon Winsor, and build their own Australian native honey brand. As with all microbusinesses we support on site we'll share our overall weekly tourism revenue and supply a growing food tourism customer base.

22.01.2022 Thanks Stephen Doyle at Bloodwood Wines for your suggestion we incorporate the cider gum into our bush food trail experience. We're always looking for interesting suggestions, and we're thrilled to be meeting up soon with Jody Orcher from Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney and Greg Bourke from the Blue Mountains Botanic Gardens. I'll be interested to learn if this is like Clayton J Donovan's favourite, the Jaaning Tree, which produces an edible sap, or if it is wild harvested then treated for consumption.

21.01.2022 Today's Gardening Australia segment "native nibbles" is worth an i-view. The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney on the site of the early Sydney colony "Farm Cove" was once thought to be the birthplace of Australian agriculture and horticulture. That was until Bruce Pascoe's book "Dark Emu Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident" set the record straight in 2014.

19.01.2022 Visitors to Hartley Bush Tucker from December will not only be able to learn from elders about food like wattle and acacia seed, and taste these in meals prepared by an Aboriginal chef, they'll be able to purchase seedlings from our plant nursery.

18.01.2022 Just 5 months to go until the CSIRO releases a virus into NSW creeks and rivers, thoroughly tested not to harm any species EXCEPT the European Carp. September is the start of the recovery process for native Australian black bream, silver perch and hundreds of other fish species (and for Bass in eastern flowing creeks of the Blue Mountains) For our part, we're giving things an extra boost by releasing fingerlings into the River Lett at Hartley Bush Tucker. (Image: "Fly Fishing", Howitt, 1798).

17.01.2022 The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney tour by Jody Orcher, as seen last weekend on Gardening Australia. Thanks for the share Ben Joseph!

15.01.2022 Ken Boundy and Shayne Mallard, someone who is doing a phenomenal job of driving the Botanic Gardens & Centennial Parklands Strategic Plan is Greg Bourke. Throu...gh Greg, The Blue Mountains Botanic Garden, Mount Tomah is partnering and engaging with local communities and organisations. Not only has he drafted a list of endemic bush food plants for us to establish at Hartley Bush Tucker, he has inspected the property and has highlighted several plants traditionally used by Wiradjuri people for food and basket weaving. Once we open to the public we'll return the favour by referring our visitors to experience the BMBG. And we're considering also funding scholarships for Aboriginal people to undertake formal study through the gardens at Mt Tomah.

13.01.2022 In designing our living museum of bush foods, we're grateful for advice we have received so far from horticulturists, botanists, and Indigenous plant use experts. Take a look at this resource the Murrumbidgee Catchment Authority has provided, detailing Wiradjuri trees, shrubs, bushes, grasses, herbs and forbs, and wetland plants (compiled by Alice Williams and Tim Sides) http://archive.lls.nsw.gov.au//archive-wiradjuri-plant-use

12.01.2022 Part ecotourism, and part cultural tourism, business Hartley Bush Tucker is carefully planning both our inputs and outputs before we open on 2nd December.

11.01.2022 Spanish broom is toxic to humans and can cause discomfort and irritation, but is not life-threatening. The seeds are poisonous when ingested, causing nausea, diarrhoea, convulsions and respiratory distress. We're clearing an entire paddock of this weed so we can reintroduce Australian bush food. http://weeds.dpi.nsw.gov.au/Weeds/Details/129

10.01.2022 Blink and you'd miss it, but 2 hours drive west of Sydney at the gateway to Wiradjuri country is a minor engineering marvel. This convict-built retaining wall still supports the Great Western Highway. It took English settler explorers Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth some time to find a passable route over the Blue Mountains because they failed to seek advice from Aboriginal people. Cows that had escaped the Sydney colony made it through years before white people. They bred into a large herd by the time Europeans "discovered" the Central Tablelands.

07.01.2022 Check out Tourism Australia's Indigenous Tourism Operator Directory. Australia is blessed to have first rate Aboriginal chefs like Mark Black Olive (SBS The Chefs Line) Clayton J Donovan (ABCTV "Wild Kitchen" and our own Sharon Winsor who will be a guest chef for next week's tourism showcase at Kakadu.

05.01.2022 Enthusiasts of diverse Australian native plants and food sources will be interested in public consultation now underway to manage land and safeguard the environment. The NSW government is investing $100 million in the Saving Our Species program, as well as $240 million over five years and $70 million each year after that, for private land conservation. Consultation closes on 21 June and the reforms will commence on 25 August 2017. For more information, visit www.landmanagement.nsw.gov.au.

05.01.2022 With the Australian and NSW Governments investing $250 million to upgrade the Great Western Highway between Katoomba and Lithgow, visiting Hartley Bush Tucker, the gateway to Wiradjuri Mob, will be even easier for Eora (Sydney) weekend drivers.

05.01.2022 Dale Chapman, your interview by Lola Forester has me thinking about the Gumby-Gumby tree. Do you know if these are available for commercial sale in any plant nurseries in NSW?

02.01.2022 "Purangun" in Weilwan language of our chef Sharon Winsor AKA Pacific Black Duck (Anas superciliosa) is under threat from larger more aggressive introduced species. So we'll opt for this species to keep grass down in our bush tucker garden.