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Aboriginal Farming and Agriculture

Aboriginal people have sophisticated farming and agricultural techniques — these skills include planting seeds to create vast farms filled with crops, caring for the soil, harvesting the crops and storing the produce. Aboriginal people have also baked bread produced from the grains harvested from their farms. Aboriginal farming and agriculture is adaptive to the many Australian climates. Other produce include…

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Aboriginal Techniques to Vegetation Management

Australia’s First Nations community has been caring for country, implementing land management practices with the use of traditional burning, fishing traps and sowing and storing plants. Aboriginal people have essentially created a sustainable system that supplied them with the food they needed. Upon arrival, the Europeans brought unconventional farming practices to Australia. These environmental practices inevitably caused erosion and salinity…

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Facts About Wood Chipping

Wood Chipping is essentially breaking down large amounts of wood into smaller pieces with a ‘chipper’ machine. This practice is to recycle and reuse the wood, typically for mulching purposes, instead of discarding the green waste to the tip. Wood chips are made up of broken-down wood and are robust in nature, perfect for perennial plants, fruiting species and certain…

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Types of Aboriginal Art Styles

Aboriginal art is the oldest and most iconic art in the world. Dreamtime is one of the largest inspirations and most recognised within Aboriginal art. The Dreamtime was used as a learning tool for Aboriginal people — understanding their moral laws, beliefs, philosophies and politics and ceremonies through legends, myths, magic, dance, painting and song. Dreamtime since then has been…

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Understanding Indigenous Literacy Day

Indigenous Literacy Day takes place annually on the first Wednesday in September. This initiative raises awareness about educational struggles faced by First Nations communities. Children who miss such an essential step in their literacy journey have a lifelong impact – literacy is a fundamental step of building context, comprehension and understanding throughout written, visual or auditory context. In remote communities…

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