Acknowledgement of Country
I recognise the generations of local Aboriginal people who have lived and derived their physical and spiritual needs from the forests, lakes, stream, creeks, rivers and beaches of this beautiful valley over many thousands of years as the traditional owners of this land. The Tul–gi-gin, Moorung Moobar, and the Goodjinburra clans of the Bungjalung nation, their wisdoms, totems, ancestors, and their elders past present and emerging.
ABOUT ME
Chanterelle Foggin
I find myself in the long grass, casting shadows in paddocks, bent down in creek beds, all for the promise of the joy of the wild food hunt. It’s the wandering spirit, the foraging spirit, that is innate, intrinsic, and available to all of us. I fill my baskets with seaweeds, fungi, plants, flowers, berries, and edible weeds and create magical meals and wild flavours. As the #wildfoodwitchofcobaki I play with foraged goodies like lemon myrtle and marshmallow fungi, to wild raspberries - all turned into magical meals ……. READ MORE
About Foraging
Like birds fly south for winter, we, too, have a genetic memory. As a child, it’s likely you and I both, picked and made potions from plants, ate flowers, and knew the exact location of all the neighbourhood fruit trees, and when the fruit was perfectly ripe for the picking each season. As we age, we lose touch with that, we are conditioned into a certain distrust of wild food “is that ok to eat?” and even with fungi in Australia, “don’t touch that” are things we grow up hearing, these messages fill our ears and drown out our instinctual, intrinsic, generational wisdoms and our ability to trust in the world around us as being highly nourishing and supportive of life itself ……… READ MORE
I am not a qualified botanist, herbalist or mycologist. I do however greatly value the place of the naturist, citizen scientists, the healer, the witch, the wise women of the woods. I recognise the accumulated wisdom of indigenous cultures around the world as the traditional owners of these plants and fungi. In this instance Self investigation is of the utmost importance. Advice given on this site is general in nature and you should confirm ID of plants and fungi with a qualified mycologist or botanist before consumption of any matter.