Membership is available to members of an ANPSA-affiliated Regional Society. If you are not a member of a Regional Society, please refer to the ANPSA Membership Page for further information on joining.
For more information or to join please send a request using the following form (please note that all fields are mandatory* – you may edit the ‘Message’ field if necessary).
Australian Food Plants Study Group Study Group Form
Signup form for the Australian Food Plants Study Group that sends a notification to the Study Group leader.Newsletters and Reports
Regular newsletters are emailed several times per year to record activities and experiences of Group members in cultivating Australian food plants and reporting on field trips to various parts of Australia. The newsletters often include recipes using Australian food plants. The Group has also produced reports documenting potentially useful Australian food plants.
Introductory Brochure
This 2-page brochure includes a list of plants to help you to create a great ‘Bush Tucker Garden’.
Resources
A small compilation of Australian food plants links – including books, internet links and some commercial sources of Australian native food products
Books:
- Cherikoff, V and Isaacs, J (1997), The Bush Food Handbook, Ti Tree Press, Australia
- Isaacs, J (1989), Bush Food: Aboriginal Food and Herbal Medicine, New Holland Publishing Australia Pty Ltd
- Kulek, George (2016): Kimberley Bush Food – Comprehensive guide to edible plants in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia, Blurb Books
- Low, T (1991), Wild Food Plants of Australia, Harper Collins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
- Low, T (1992), Bush Tucker: Australia’s Wild Food Harvest, Angus & Robertson, Sydney
- Smith, K and Smith, I (1999), Grow Your Own Bushfoods, New Holland Publishing Australia Pty Ltd
Internet:
- Australian Bushfoods Magazine this site is currently off line (March 2016) but is expected to be re-activated.
- Australian Macadamia Society
- Australia’s Most Delicious Bush Nut
- Australian Native Food Industry Limited
- Australian Native Foods: Plant Profiles. This old CSIRO site is still available via the Internet Archive
- Bush Tucker Shop – commercial site
- Cherikoff Australian Ingredients – commercial site
- Edible Native Succulents
- Outback Chef – commercial site with lots of information and recipes
- Quandong Industry Association
- Traditional uses of Australian native plants – bibliography prepared by the Australian National Botanic Gardens
- West Australian Nut & Tree Crop Association Archive
ANPSA’s former online magazine ‘Australian Plants online’ included several articles on native food plants:
- Australian Limes
- Australian Native Poisonous Plants
- Aboriginal Uses of Plants Around Sydney
- Back to the Future: Where Now for Bush Foods?
- Bush Food Species for Temperate Regions
- Bush Food Species for Temperate and Cool Climates
- Capricornia Cuisine: Bush Tucker in Central Queensland
- Edible Acacias
- Edible Plants
- Queensland Raspberries
- Our Wild Foods to the World
- Rotten Cheesefruit?…or Great Morinda??