Join us for a workshop about the original plants from the area including a light lunch utilising some of the edible plants. This is our third workshop relating to planning the Wominjeka garden at the new EcoCentre.
Learn about the rich history of our local plant species in this workshop, how to identify, harvest, and prepare plants to eat, and their cultural significance. Dean Stewart is a passionate Wemba Wemba-Wergaia man of Victoria, with over 25 years’ experience creating, co-ordinating and conducting Cultural Education, tourism, conservation and interpretation programs and projects through his Victorian Aboriginal owned and operated enterprise, ‘Aboriginal Tours And Education Melbourne A-TAEM’. He created and authored the ‘Once As It Was’ mapping projects for Port Phillip & Greater Dandenong Councils.
Dean now focuses on his new environmental projects: ‘LostLandsFound’ Flowering Grasslands eco-spaces through a number Councils, Schools & Swinburne University in Melbourne. Deans ongoing credo is: “Reconciliation is not just between Black and White Its between Us as a People reconciling ourselves back with the Earth.” Our EcoCentre Botanist and Friday Garden Group coordinator, Peter Kelly will introduce us to the role that local plants play at the EcoCentre and conduct a cooking demo. All EcoCentre volunteers and community members are welcome. Please register for the event via the link below.
The garden planning workshops are supported by grants from Elwood Community Bank, City of Port Phillip and donations from our community.
