Indigenous knowledge

5 cards. Each one is a 40-second story with a five-minute read behind it.

1. How a Bundjalung dancer transitioned from the stage to the screenBefore becoming a familiar face on Gardening Australia for ten years, Clarence Slockee followed a diverse path. From performing with NAISDA to working on Sydney's Barangaroo devel…
2. Can we reconcile modern science with tens of thousands of years of Indigenous knowledge?Maddison Miller, a Darug archaeologist and artist, is bridging the gap between ecological science and Indigenous wisdom. By examining how we care for Country, she argues that our …
3. How one man is reviving ancestral knowledge through native Australian plant cultivationPeter Cooley left a two-decade career as a mechanic to establish IndigiGrow, a nursery dedicated to cultivating local plants and teaching younger generations how to care for them.…
4. Understanding the Six Seasons of the Noongar People in Western AustraliaJosh Byrne visits Noongar woman Marissa Verma at Bibra Lake to explore the deep connection between Noongar culture, local plants, and the six distinct seasons of their traditional…
5. Maize, beans and squash grown together feed more people than any of them grown alone.Indigenous farmers across North and Central America planted the Three Sisters together. Maize gives the beans a pole to climb, beans enrich the soil with nitrogen, and squash leav…

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