#murnong

[indigenousidentitytheft]

Eating to Extinction credits Bruce Pascoe as an Aboriginal writer and farmer for introducing him to Murnong. (Correct your errs, Dan Saladino)

In actuality, he is evidently white - as per his ancestry, ie. all four of his grandparents were English. Yet he goes so far in his claim to aboriginal identity that he wrote an award winning booking on indigenous history and practices and operates a huge farm and company selling indigenous produce that he refers to in said book.

If you want to learn more about indigenous food culture, ie. more sustainable and nutritious eating -- look to actually indigenous people. That requires some work, but here's one example: Karlos Baca, an Indigenous Foods Activist from the Southern Ute Nation

https://www.instagram.com/tasteofn8vcuisine/?hl=en

Karlos Baca, formerly a chef, and now a teacher says his students travel from places where there are more gas stations than grocery stores.

"'Here I'm teaching them how to survive the American food system.' Baca is on the front line of a food war, one being waged against indigenous people. The way he sees it, the first casualty is health. 'That's why we need to decolonise our diets,' he says."

"During the class, he took a handful of blue maize flour and mixed in some water, turning the grey-white powder into a deep purple porridge. To this, he added a pinch of burnt wood ash that made the colour of the maize more intense. With a small blade, he sliced tiny slivers from what looked like a gnarled and blackened piece of wood. 'I can tell you my life story through this one bowl,' Baca said, 'and this food can also show you what happened to my people.'"

[tenth-sentence]

The herbage was probably a combination of yam daisies, bulbine lilies, arthropodium, and others.

"Country: Future Fire, Future Farming" - Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe

[mybeingthere]

The sublime Kyoko Umazu, Murnong yam daisy etching and aquatint, 63 x 44.5.

Kyoko Imazu’s work tells the stories of our often-overlooked neighbours like the weeds, bugs and pebbles that fill our everyday lives. Upon closer inspection, every petal, leaf and wing is miraculously unique; they all have their own stories and universes within themselves, containing many states of life, death and regeneration. In the following Q&A we chat to Kyoko about life during quarantine and her upcoming body of work to be exhibited at Australian Galleries in Melbourne.

https://australiangalleries.com.au/kyoko-imazu-artist.../

https://kyokoimazu.com/section/215926-Printmaking.html

[steadilyebbing]

Hey. Psst. Hey tumblr. Wanna see a tiny native bee curled up asleep in a murnong flower? Course you do. Beeezzzzz-zzz

[myrtaceaae]

Reading about murnong cultivation and Europeans are always like we see indigenous people cultivating these plants in clear gardens... clearly it must be a happy accident. Actual rage in my body

[theideaofmelbourne-isabella]

School/Market

Barry Ln has been reclaimed.

A Steel mesh canopy affixes itself to neighboring buildings and hovers above native grassland.

In Victoria, Aboriginal people regulated the land according to six seasons.

What if architecture acknowledged seasonal change?

Murnong Yam daisy’s claim back the soil of Barry Ln.

The by-product of this idea is to educate and inform city dwellers of the unseeded land they occupy.

The architecture is secondary to the landscape.

[caramelcat]

playlist: Neon Sunset fill, Triple R, May 30, 2020

Lonnie Holley - I Woke Up In A Fucked-Up America

Manu Dibango - Tropical Garden

Bennie Maupin - Ensenada

Ennio Morricone - A Lidia

Astrud Gilberto - Traveling Light (w/ Stanley Turrentine)

Les Baxter - Tropicando

Pharaoh Sanders - Astral Traveling

Alice Coltrane - Satya Sai Isha (w/ the Sai Anantam Ashram Singers)

Buckingham Nicks - Crystal

Bob Dylan - You’re A Big Girl Now

Lisa Miller - As Far As A Life Goes

Michael Chapman - Among The Trees

Shirley Collins - Wondrous Love

The Byrds - Goin’ Back

International Submarine Band - Blue Eyes

John Cale - You Know More Than I Know

Lou Reed - Love Makes You Feel

Kim Jung Mi - Haenim

Allara - Murnong Farm

Spirit of Israel - A Place to Be

Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Roy Ayers - 2000 Blacks Got To Be Free

Parliament - Unfunky UFO

Shuggie Otis - Strawberry Letter 23

Bobbie Gentry - Courtyard

(photo: Shirley Collins, from her memoir, ‘All in the Downs: Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song’)

[melbournewestelectricians-blog]

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[thehoneycombgardens-blog]

I always knew that Aboriginal people had a lot more going for them than Australian history gave them credit for. Even if they had been hunter-gatherers, they knew how to survive in this harsh country and they knew how to live on the land without destroying it. Suffice to say, this Ted X talk by Bruce Pascoe, an Aboriginal author, historian and farmer, that provides evidence of Aboriginal agricultural practices, made me incredibly happy and energised to find out more. This video is a must see and I highly recommend you share it too. It's an untold history that should be embraced. If that talk just wet your appetite and you want to know more about Aboriginal housing, advanced tools, their agricultural grain belt and more, watch an extended version of the talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB1-oilD3IU Pascoe talks about his connection to Mannalargenna, a Tasmanian aboriginal to whom many of the current Aboriginal people in Tasmania and southern mainland may be related. What an incredible looking man, with his dreads of clay. His story is a tragic one, but one that ought to be shared as well. Individual stories and sketches of Aboriginal people are so hard to come by. I feel blessed to be introduced to this man and his story. It really is a shame that this story, or the stories of the Waggaman people of the Northern Territory, where I grew up, we're left out of the curriculum. But alas, a little of things were left out, and it's up to us to decide what to learn about and share for our children. https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/encounters/encounters_films/videos/a_broken_promise

About Bruce Pascoe I need to talk to this man. I want to know what he knows. I want to grow the crops he talks about and share knowledge about them with the rest of Australia. If you want to keep up to date on this journey, sign up for the mailing list here. I'll notify you about any new articles closely related to this topic and you can choose whether to receive updated on other topics too. Additional Resources:Beth Goth Murnong Yam

[stealthismeme]

Out of Civilitopia

Women gathering murnong and other food, as sketched by squatter Henry Godfrey, on November 1, 1843. Drawing from the artist’s sketchbook, La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria.

The nutshell story of civilization begins with its formation as an evolutionary adaptation based on humans’ advanced intelligence setting them apart from other animals. Civilized humans see, experience…

[madilayn]

My garden is coming along very nicely! It's been loving the rain. I've spent an hour out there today potting out the plants I got from Melbourne Bushfood replacing the original ones that died.

The bush tucker plants I have now are Saltbush Geraldton Wax Pigface Noon Flower Riberry Native Raspberry Sea Parsley Native Oregano Native Thyme Murnong

Thanks to a generous Greencycle member, I also have some general plants, including astrawberry that is getting fruit!!, some marigolds, nasturshum and others I need to identify!

[cyclemad]

Another Murnong hat kit flying south for the winter #lichen #henna #Millpost Merino #8plyyarn #tikkiknits

[mybeingthere]

The sublime Kyoko Umazu, Murnong yam daisy etching and aquatint, 63 x 44.5.Kyoko

Imazu’s work tells the stories of our often-overlooked neighbours like the weeds, bugs and pebbles that fill our everyday lives. Upon closer inspection, every petal, leaf and wing is miraculously unique; they all have their own stories and universes within themselves, containing many states of life, death and regeneration. In the following Q&A we chat to Kyoko about life during quarantine and her upcoming body of work to be exhibited at Australian Galleries in Melbourne.

https://australiangalleries.com.au/kyoko-imazu-artist.../

https://kyokoimazu.com/section/215926-Printmaking.html

[johnlee-designstudio]

Precedent_II

/ˈprɛsɪd(ə)nt/

Noun

“an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances”

In the Absence

By  Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office

‘In the Absence’, the work explores the physical legacy of Aboriginal people's dispossession resulted from colonial land theft in the 18th century. The pavilion’s  valorous stance  presents immediate and visceral curiosity to the occupants from distance. A void and passage are created through the sliced open tall cylinder, creating narrow vertical aperture. And two intimate chambers on each side containing hundreds of hand-blown, glossy, black glass ‘murnong ‘(yams) populate the walls and glitter in shafts of sunlight. (Scarce, 2019) The material choice and the scale of the work, controls light to highlight and scrutinize central feature of designed shards. The openings / the cut allows breather of lights to enter, allowing occupants to experience amplified scale of voidence within the design

Splendid concept behind the project is that it is not about representation, in fact, it is about establishing just enough - adequate architecture and space, to create sufficient opportunity to reveal what is invisible itself. “A slice of nothingness splitting wholeness.” (Scarce, 2019) This minimalistic strategy in pair with used materials, space program and structure to construct the pavilion, creates an enormous experience that capitalizes on the semiotic potential to draw into the resonant stories behind the site’s disclaimed identity.

References:

In the Absence (2019) by Edition Office +  Yhonnie Scarce

[mumblesfm]

MMBLS.FM w/ J WATER - 26.6.20

TRACKLIST Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse Ghostface Killah - All That I Got Is You (ft Mary J. Blige) Dua Saleh - windhymn Yussef Dayes & Alfa Mist - Blacked Out Alfa Mist - Mulago Outkast - Liberation (ft. Cee-Lo, Erykah Badu & Big Rube) Quelle Chris & Chris Keys - Grease from the Elbows (ft. Pink Siifu & Billy Woods) Jeff Parker - Max Brown Robert Glasper - Dillalude #2 Pink Siifu - Black Be Tha God, NEGRO.(wisdom.cipher) Eddie Kendricks - Intimate Friends Public Enemy - White Heaven - Black Hell Jeff Parker feat. Ruby Parker - Build a Nest Noname - Song 31 Noname - Song 33 Allara - Murnong Farm Thundercat - Fair Chance (ft. Ty Dolla $ign & Lil B) 112 - U Already Know Tink - U Already Know Teyana Taylor - Boomin (ft. Missy Elliott & Future) Novelist - Stay with me Lil Silva - Lines Bayetë & Probably Sean - Corona Theresa Roddy Ricch - Peta (feat. Meek Mill) Tion Wayne x Dutchavelli x Stormzy - I Dunno Kojey Radical - Same Boat (feat. Mereba) Koffee & Gunna - W Juls - Wata (ft. Randy Valentine) Shy One - House Party Suntzu Sound presents 1Luv - Black Daylight (Slope Remix) Larry Heard - Missing You

diiiirecc: https://www.mixcloud.com/losslessradio/unknown-mmbls-fm-w-j-water-260620/

[rosealateras96]

I love caring for land and developing a reciprocal relationship by tending to the earth that grows my food. I have had a permaculture garden for years which feeds 3 families in my community. However, I am very curious to learn more about native plants and how I can respectfully engage with Indigenous culture through my gardening practices. 

I looked into a community organisation Angela suggested called Merri Murnong, which works on Wurundjeri country to learn how to look after the Murnong Lily and other indigenous food, fibre and medicine plants. Once COVID-19 lockdown is over I would love to get involved with this group.