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 Background Information - About Bush Food
"(A) lot of people say Aboriginal people never farmed the land...never ploughed the land and they never grew wheat and they never planted apple trees and orange trees. We never had to. Our Mother, the earth, she gave herself freely to us. And because we respected her and loved her we never had to go and do all them other things. That would have been harming our mother. So, we just took what she gave us." The quote presents one view held by Indigenous peoples of Australia in regard to obtaining food. Indigenous people have a vast store of knowledge of plants and animals and of the foods they provide. Such foods are collectively known as bush food. There is a huge variety of bush food all over Australia for people who know where and when to find it.
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