Marie Claire going wild?
Anne Fullerton was on a mission. Enticed by the latest culinary crave for wild food, she decided to take on the challenge of preparing a dinner entirely sourced from urban wilderness. To do so she...
View ArticleThe Rocks Windmill stories>>
It’s all happening down at The Rocks Windmill. The sails are turning, wheat is being ground into flour, Diego Bonetto is telling some fascinating weedy stories, Costa Georgiadis is getting very...
View Articleon Mapping and the value of it
We’re mapping it all!! As part of the exhibition Baadlands: an Atlas of Experimental Cartography We have also been revisiting the database and populate it with 40+ new plants profiles. The lot will be...
View ArticleEthnobotanical practices of the Italian community in Australia research
This is the poster presented by Anna DuChesne at the 2013 annual meeting of the Society for Economic Botany, held in Plymouth, England. Anna is a Master of Science (Ethnobotany) student at Southern...
View ArticleFront page of the Parramatta Sun
Incredible! Wild Stories got featured in the front page of the Parramatta Sun in preparation for the upcoming foraging workshop in Parramatta Park. Details [...]
View ArticleOn mapping and feasting on Wild Food
We launched a pozible campaign, a crowd funding exercise that would help to raise the profile of #WildFoodMap. The idea is simple, you get asked all the time where is this wild food and how do I know...
View ArticleNewnes and firey mountains
We went over the mountain via the Bell Line. There were severe fires there about 6 weeks ago, and then it came the rain 4 weeks ago, for 2 weeks. We eventually went all the way to Newnes, a deep...
View ArticleCity’s mushrooms – Funghi in Citta’
There is a book by Italo Calvino that still speaks to you, still has something to teach, something to say. It is the story of Marcovaldo, a simple man of rural upbringing who scouts the city where he...
View ArticleNSW Arts and Culture Award
Yay! the Wild Stories Project at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre has been awarded the Local Government Cultural Award! Thanks so much to the whole team at CPAC, including the Director Kiersten Fishburn...
View ArticleBecause our children upbringing is all so important
You have been sharing stories aplenty, about migrant’s connections, native relevance, environmental stewardship and legitimacy of context. This story below comes from a young man, about 3 years of age,...
View Articleon the kind on sweeping statements facebook is full of
Facebook became the platform you work with the most this days, for a number of reasons. Firstly because as a cultural producer you engage with media where it is most active, starting from a couple of...
View ArticleA review of the Wild Edibles workshops provided for Crave Sydney
This blog appeared on The Food Sage blog, see here for the original posting>> If you fancy yourself as a forager but don’t know a good edible plant from a bad one, let Diego Bonetto take you...
View ArticleMy Crown Of Weeds
You are reblogging here the words from Jennifer Hamilton, on the occasion when you went on an harvest to collect with her the necessary ingredients for a Crown Of Weeds… read on>> “A long time...
View ArticleWild Stories, the exhibition
WILD STORIES Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 1/12/12 – 31/1/13 “Imagine a world where we are all connected with nature – all species cohabitating in harmony, giving space to each other and allowing for...
View ArticleHarvesting mushrooms with foodies
Because of what you do you get to hang out a lot with food affecionados: chefs, caterers, providores, producers, distributors, believers and amateurs. The common threat is the love for produce, its...
View ArticleA gourmetician harvesting mushrooms
Please see more of Jessica on her blog here. Thanks Jessica!
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