From beef to bush tucker
From the ABC
By Kim Honan
Back in the early 1990's when the bottom dropped out of the beef cattle industry Bruce and Barbara Barlin decided to diversify into bush foods.
Now half the challenge is convincing consumers to go native and use the local flavours when cooking.
Bruce and Barbara run Barbushco, an organic native bush food company, from their plantation and orchard in the Lorne Valley on the New South Wales mid-north coast.
Beating around the bush
From the Age
April 1, 2008
Bush food crusader Mark Olive, of Outback Cafe.
Australians are finally coming around to eating kangaroo but have been slow to embrace native herbs and spices. John Weldon meets the converted and sees what's on offer.
THE Bush Tucker Man has a lot to answer for, says restaurateur and Boon Wurrung elder Carolyn Briggs. She laments Australians' reluctance to embrace indigenous foods in recent years, and says the ABC television series of the late 1980s was the country's first mainstream introduction to native foods. Les Hiddins, an army bush survival expert, drove his battered truck through the bush telling stories about the indigenous food and medicines used by Aboriginal people for thousands of years.