BUSH know-how is a collaborative project with Australian indigenous communities to sustain and extend bush food diversity, knowledge and market awareness.
By working with Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, Slow Food Australia identifies foods at risk of loss and registers these with the Australian Ark. It also hopes to collaborate with indigenous communities and national programmes like Desert knowledge to develop markets for traditional foods through præsidia. Extending Bush know-how, Slow Food Australia will host Terra Australis, a national forum of food communities, to foster the exchange of people’s ideas and experiences that sustain and challenge food communities in the production, development and marketing of traditional foods. Terra Australis will develop into Terra Oceania, encompassing food communities in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Christmas and Cocos Islands and the western Pacific islands.
Sharing knowledge provides more information about Bush know-how.