Native plants provide opportunities that extend beyond restoration.
Native plants have always provided food, medicine, materials and cultural resources for Indigenous communities. Bush Botanics explores how these relationships can continue to create opportunities today.
Working with culturally significant species, communities can develop products and enterprises based on traditional medicines, bush foods, natural skincare products, essential oils, handmade paper, natural fibres and cultural tourism experiences. www.bushbotanics.com
Bush food species — knowledge, value and Country in one.
§ Enterprise Areas
Products and enterprises grounded in cultural knowledge and care for Country.
Traditional medicines
Plant-based knowledge of healing, passed through generations.
Bush foods
Culturally significant species with growing market demand.
Essential oils
Distilled from native species — value-add with provenance.
Natural skincare
Botanically-derived products grounded in cultural use.
Native plant products
Handmade paper, natural fibres and crafted goods.
Cultural tourism experiences
On-Country learning and visitor experiences.
Steam distillation — turning culturally significant species into essential oils, on-Country.
§ Why It Matters
Pathways for employment and enterprise — without separating from culture or Country.
These opportunities create pathways for employment and enterprise development while strengthening cultural knowledge and connections to Country.
When the species, the knowledge and the production all stay with community, the enterprise stays connected to its source — and the benefits flow back to the landscapes and people that sustained the knowledge in the first place.
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