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Native plants as food, medicine, and tools for First Nations People

4/26/2021

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We were privileged to have Christopher Jakobi come down to our Nursery, on Bunurong country, to talk about native plants and First Nations culture. Jakobi is a Gunditjimara and Djab Wurrung man who works as the cultural and sustainability education programs coordinator at the Royal Botanic Gardens. He shared many insights about the ways that some of the plants that we grow at our nursery have been used historically and in the present by First Nations people in the area.
 
We have been growing native and indigenous plants for over twenty years, and during this time have amassed a collection of plants that can be used for food, tools, medicine, and various ecological applications. While we have extensive experience propagating these plants for ecosystem restoration projects, we lack the knowledge that First Nations people have amassed over tens of thousands of years of cultivating and consuming them.
 
Along with their traditional uses, Jakobi shared his first-hand experience utilising native plant materials for food, tools, and medicine as well as cultural burning. He also shared with us his insights into the burgeoning ‘bushfood’ industry and the strides being made in commercialising these plants as crops for the culinary industry. Our nursery is proud to support some of these trials on commercial cultivation of some native plants for food for traditional owner groups. Jakobi’s talk highlighted the importance of collaboration and knowledge sharing between native plant nurseries and First Nations community groups, and we look forward to working on this within our own operations into the future.
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Landscape Lines

4/6/2021

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The Australian Ecosystems nursery is currently expanding to offer our new Landscape Line range.
Our range of almost 50 plant varieties have been carefully curated to include commonly used landscaping lines for the residential landscaping market.
This range has been developed in our unique and more affordable 12x 600cc trays which has these advantages:
  • Less than half the size of the 140/150mm stock whilst providing a plant similar in presentation impact to the standard 140mm pot.
  • These multipack trays are re-used to reduce plastic waste streams and can speed up planting as they allow planters to handle and carry more plants at a time. Also reducing clean-up.
  • These 600cc plants are cheaper than 140mm stock allowing for a greater margin to marketing channel suppliers.
 
Click here to order online from Evergreen Connect.
 For any contract grow requests and other enquiries, email us at nursery@australianecosystems.com.au
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Employer of the Year

4/6/2021

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We are extremely chuffed to have received the 2020 Employer of the Year Award for Nurseries, from Holmesglen TAFE. 

This is a testament to our nursery as a place for educating the next generation of horticulturalists and biodiversity restoration professionals. 

Our staff work very hard, growing millions of plants per year for over 20 years. These plants are sent out to be planted at a variety of projects across the Greater Melbourne region, in landscapes from residential to large ecological conservation projects. We are very proud of the positive impact our nursery has on the environment, and the work we do to proliferate and preserve the locally indigenous species of areas across Victoria. 
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Australian Ecosystems acknowledges the Traditional Owners of country throughout Victoria and Australia. We operate on the lands of the Wurundjeri people, and pay our respects to them, their culture and their Elders past and present.
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