Our Story
Australia’s post-colonial food system has seriously degraded the environment — a result of both the wilful and accidental neglect of the complex interconnections between food systems and the wider ecosystem. This has been compounded by the forced abandonment of the Indigenous Australian practices of caring for Country. As seen in Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or accident?, traditional agricultural practices worked in harmony with the land to provide for people, while also maintaining Country. The challenge for Australia is to accept Indigenous communities re-engaging and empowering themselves with the utility of these pre-colonial food systems and land stewardship practices, and for us to support Indigenous Australians leveraging their own traditional culture and knowledge for economic benefit and environmental stewardship.
