Why Diego Bonetto wants you to eat weeds

Foraging and eating wild food is nothing new in Australia. First Nations people have done it for over 50,000 years. Even your grandparents often still used to search for eatable weeds, mushrooms and nuts at the edge of their fields and in the woods. This knowledge is lost today. But attitudes to weeds have also changed. We don’t see weeds as a valuable resource anymore, only as a pest to get rid of. Is it time to change that and to rediscover the traditional knowledge of foraging? And what would that mean for how we manage our farmland in the future?

Presented at the Lyrebird Festival

Speakers

Diego Bonetto Edible weeds advocate, forager and author of EAT WEEDS, A field guide to foraging

Gregg Borschmann (host)Writer, radio producer and oral historian for the National Library of Australia