BUSHFOOD YARN AND COOK UP WITH AUNTY DALE CHAPMAN

BUSHFOOD YARN AND COOK UP with AUNTY DALE CHAPMAN 

Following the Bushfood Nursery Walk & Talk with Josie Cox, pull up close for a bushfood yarn and live cook-up with the Bushfood Queen herself, Aunty Dale Chapman from My Dilly Bag.

This session is centred on storytelling, flavour and food. Aunty Dale will cook in real time while sharing her lived experience, cultural knowledge and love of bushfoods, showing how native ingredients can be used in everyday meals. Bunya will be a feature of the cook-up, with Aunty Dale yarning about its significance and demonstrating practical ways it can be prepared and enjoyed.

As part of the session, participants will have the opportunity to sample the dishes prepared during the cook-up, as well as enjoy My Dilly Bag tastings. A range of bushfood products will be available to taste and purchase on the day, offering a chance to explore flavours and take ideas home to your own kitchen. Participants can also purchase native bushfood plants from the Mooloolah River Landcare Bush Nursery to grow at home.

This cook-up brings the journey from plant to plate together,  rounding out a full day of learning, tasting and celebrating bushfoods at the GATHAA First Nations Bushfood Lovers Market.

Cost: Tickets $10
Time: 1:30 -2:30pm
Where: Mooloolah River Landcare Native Nursery
2671 Steve Irwin Way Glenview QLD 4553

GATHAA First Nations Bushfood Lovers Market at MRL

• Enjoy GATHAA Bushfood Lovers Market featuring a curated selection of First Nations stalls including My Dilly Bag bushfood products, native herbs and spices and goodies, along with First Nations art, homewares, fashion and cultural artefacts

• Browse the Mooloolah River Landcare Bush Nursery and purchase native plants

• Feast on flavour-packed bushfood treats from Hoopers Tucker food truck

• Grab a coffee and native-infused, nourishing treats including smoothies, smoothie bowls, muffins and other delicious goodies from The Greenhouse SC

• Join Josie Cox’s Bushfood Nursery Walk & Talk at 11:30am, led by Josie from The Bush Nursery – Grown on Country, alongside MRL Manager Suzanne

• Fellas, don’t miss the Didgeridoo Workshop at 10:00am. Drop in find your vibration.

About Aunty Dale Chapman, My Dilly Bag

Aunty Dale Chapman is an Indigenous woman born in Dirranbandi in south west Queensland on Yuwaalaraay and Kooma Country, and has lived and worked on Gubbi Gubbi land on the Sunshine Coast since 1976. Her totems are the emu through her father’s family and the possum through her mother’s family.

A respected leader in her field, Aunty Dale is the founder of My Dilly Bag, and is an award-winning chef, cookbook author, public speaker and educator. She is widely known for her work sharing bushfood knowledge, cultural food practices and First Nations perspectives through food.

About Mooloolah River Landcare 

Mooloolah River Landcare is a community-based environmental organisation dedicated to protecting and restoring local ecosystems through on-ground action, education and community connection. Operating from the Mooloolah River Landcare Bush Nursery, MRL works alongside community, and partners to care for Country and support sustainable futures.