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Gippsland's Little Fingers Learning About Bushtukka

Creating cultural bushtukka resources in Maffra for early childhood services.

Project details

Suggested by: Kirsty

Project partner: Queen Street Kindergarten - Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania) Limited

Budget

$51,589.00

Votes

61 votes received

This project did not receive enough votes to be successful.

Bushtukka. What is it? How do you use/cook with it? We learn about vegetable gardens, but not Australian/Indigenous bush foods. Please teach me.

Many schools and kindergartens have bushtukka gardens without knowing how to use the produce. Under guidance from an experienced Indigenous educator our reconciliation project, piloted at Maffra’s Queen Street Kindergarten in the heart of Gippsland, will take children, educators and families through the process of identifying, understanding, planting, processing and eating bushtukka. A resource package – bushtukka book, teacher’s manual, videos – will be created so all early childhood services across Victoria can follow Maffra’s example.

We will support reconciliation in our local community by teaching future generations about Indigenous culture, learning the traditional uses of bushtukka and how it can be grown and used every day.

The families of Maffra’s Queen Street Kindergarten will directly benefit from this project as their children are taken through the workshops about bushtukka, respecting Indigenous culture, reconciliation and community celebrations. Other Wellington Shire early learning centres will take part in reviewing the resources developed as part of the project. Once launched, the resources will benefit all communities across Victoria as they are distributed to libraries and early learning centres.

Project details

Suggested by: Kirsty

Project partner: Queen Street Kindergarten - Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania) Limited

Budget

$51,589.00

Votes

61 votes received

This project did not receive enough votes to be successful.

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MrsFitt

11 Sep 2018

Sounds really fantastic. Your children will absolutely live this !! Good luck

Maffracait

29 Aug 2018

This was my kinder 54 years ago. What a brilliant idea

Sammyj

21 Aug 2018

Wish this sort of thing was around when my kids were little,

geewizz

21 Aug 2018

A deadly way to show our Culture.

Project Owner

Bushtukka

13 Aug 2018

I’m a parent of a child at this kinder and look forward to working with others on this project..

Janet

13 Aug 2018

I work in Family Day Care and would loveto have something that I can use with the children and also just so I can learn myself