Amanda asks the question: Why doesn’t Western Australia have a flourishing industry based around the meat and skin products of malu – the ubiquitous and delicious red kangaroo?

Amanda attends a Growing the Grower workshop in November 2017 run by the Australian Native Food and Botanicals group at Muresk Agricultural College near Northam and encounters her own white privilege – again – and finds more to muse about on the subjec...

From Landscape to land. For many non-indigenous Australians, our country is still viewed through a European mindset.This cultural overlay still dictates the way we deal with the land in our pastoral industry.

The Blokes. An aspect of living in station country is the constancy of killing.  Framed by the sometimes brutal world of the pastoral industry, this is a story that emerged as a response to a close encounter with a dead kangaroo and the men who killed it.

Amanda discovers a small grove of native millet, a rarely seen perennial grass in station country Midwest, WA that was a major food source in the time before settlement and makes a breakthrough in her thinking about the ecology of the Rangelands.

Amanda moves to station country in Midwest Western Australia and starts to investigate edible native seeds.