Tasmanian Native Plants Small Group Tours
Nov-Dec 2024

Thirty enthusiastic participants took part in our fully-booked small bus tours to learn about propagating, growing, and cooking with Tasmanian native plants.

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​​​​​Rees Campbell's and Col Meyers' Murnong Wild Food Gardens at Wynyard. What an enriching experience! Here we saw many Tasmanian native plants flourishing in a stunning small garden. We then enjoyed a scrumptious brunch prepared by Rees with her home-grown ingredients. 

Find out more at Rees and Col's Feisty Tasmanian website.​​ We highly recommend Rees' books, including Eat More Wild Tasmanian.

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Jim McCleod's Oldina Nursery. Another wonderful experience, guided by a true expert in the growing of Tasmanian native plants. Many participants purchased plants as well as copies of Jim's book Living with Plants: a Guide to Revegetation Plants for North West Tasmania (co-authored with Sue Gray).

If you are on Facebook, search for Oldina Nursery to find out more.​​

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We also greatly enjoyed the participation of other groups, including the Tasmanian Wildlife Hospital, Kentish Garden Club, and the Australian Plants Society. 

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​What our participants said:​

The level of knowledge that both Rees and Jim possess is absolutely remarkable. The culinary uses of a lot of these native plants have many implications related to food security, sustainable land usage for agriculture and building unique Australian products.  - MEGAN.

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Huge thanks to Mount Roland Land Care for organising this valuable tour to Rees Campbell's innovative and productive garden and Oldina Nursery for indigenous plants from the North West.  As our global climate warms, there are two challenges in particular that will become urgent - how to protect and conserve ecosystems under pressure, and how to feed communities as we wean ourselves off fossil fuels and the complex supply chains they support.  The critical importance of local Tasmania plants, knowledge and community resilience couldn't be clearer.  This tour enabled us to learn from some incredibly knowledgeable people who have been pioneers in these areas, inspiring us to implement their lessons learned.  The government grant supporting this knowledge exchange has seeded some of the necessary enthusiasm and resources to expand this work in the ongoing journey towards a more sustainable future. - FIONA.

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Thank you guys for that fantastic trip on Nov the 30th. I really loved Rees Campbell's SUCH informative and humourous delivery on their tour - I really learnt a great deal about Tasmanian indigenous (particularly food) culture! The fact that Rees and Col grow all the massively-important plants that they do, for our following generations' knowledge and more sustainable opportunities for food growth, (besides of course the actual seed-saving itself), all on a suburban block, was pretty mind-blowing and extremely inspiring. 

Not only all that treasure-knowledge they imparted, but when we got to Jim McLeod's native nursery with his propagation demos and tour, I could actually buy a couple of the food plants I'd been planning on looking for that Rees had happened to show us in their place! Fantastic. - ROBIN.​​​​