Wild Food
Gathering our own food from the bush and the paddocks is a gentle, resourceful way of gaining sustenance as well as knowledge of local food species. Below is a list of foods that we have come across and tried. Most of these we use regularly in cooking.
Blackberry
Chickweed
Plantain
Dandelion
Hawthorn
Salsify
Catsear
Fat Hen
Mallow
Nettle
Purslane
Sow Thistle
Wild Lettuce
Briar Rose
Sheep Sorrel
Shepherd Purse
Pine Tree
Sweet Violet
Water Cress
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Rubus fruticosus
Stellaria media
Plantago lanceolata
Taraxacum officinale
Crataegus monogyna
Tragopogon porrifolius
Chenopodium album
Malva parvifolia
Urtica urens
Portulaca oleraca
Sonchus oleraceus
Lactuca serriola
Rosa rubignosa
Acetosella vulgaris
Capsella bursa-pastoris
Pinus pinea
Viola odorata
Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum
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Introduced Plants
Swamp Dock
Plantain
Catsear
Flax Lily
Saffrom Milk Caps
Common Mat-rush
Puffball
Bracken Fern
Cranesbill
Native Raspberry
Flax Lily
Sour Currant bush
Lance Beard-heath
Cranberry heath
Native Mat-rush
Bracken Fern
Native Sarsaparilla
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Rubus fruticosus
Dianella revoluta var. revoluta
Leptomeria acida
Leucopogon lanceolatus
Astroloma humifusum
Lomandra longifolia
Pteridium esculentum
​Smilax glyciphylla
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Native Australian Plants
Wild Pig
Rabbits
Saffron Milk Cap
Slippery Jacks
Ringless Slippery Jack
Puffballs
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Sus scrofa
Oryctolagus cuniculus
Lactarius deliciosus
Suillus luteus
Suillus granulatus
Calvatia pos lilacina
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