Remote Indigenous Gardens Network

30/06/2025

Dear friends and followers, after 16 years I'm saying thank you and farewell - with love, and thanks and all power to you and your communities for healthy people and country!
The RIG Network project kicked off with lots of heart, passion and purpose in 2009 and functioned until 2022 [so many wonderful visits, newsletters and EduGrow School Garden Awards!] In 2013 RIG Network became part of Foodswell Ltd - a charity. After 12 years Foodswell will cease trading on June 30 2025. The Gardens Guide remains available: E-copies and some remaining hard copies. Message me via [email protected].

08/02/2023

PULiiMA 2023 Indigenous Languages and Technology conference JUST 4 DAYS LEFT to submit your Abstracts: Presenters, Workshops, Exhibitors

"This is your chance to participate as a Trainer, Presenter or Exhibitor as we celebrate the commencement of the International Decade for Indigenous Languages"

Closing this Friday 10 February 2023
https://puliima.com/call-outs/presenters
Miromaa Aboriginal Language & Technology Centre Puliima Indigenous Language & Technology Conference First Languages Australia Red Room Australian Tropical Herbarium Indigiearth IndigiGrow Native Bushfoods & Plants

12/12/2022

GOOD LISTENING! Gerry Turpin is an Indigenous Ethnobotanist and IBK leader and what he does is game changing. My conversation with Gerry, just out, is the last deep dive conversation for Nourishing Matters podcast in 2022.

I especially enjoyed speaking with Gerry. In many ways he and his story book ends the NM series since its inception in late 2019 when I was blown away by Gerry's keynote presentation at PULiiMA 2019 about the power of his work for culture, community, environmental and food sovereignty.

So please listen in, be inspired by Gerry who is a Mbabaram Traditional Owner and 'as far as he knows' the first fully trained Indigenous Ethnobotanist in Australia who has helped seed and lead groundbreaking, research that bridges two worlds and empowers Elders and communities to research, record, protect and derive value from their plant and cultural knowledge and to share it in ways they wish to.
Miromaa Aboriginal Language & Technology Centre The Cairns Institute JCU: James Cook University, Australia Firesticks Charles Darwin University Puliima Indigenous Language & Technology Conference Natural Resource Management Landcare Australia Black Duck Foods Indigiearth & Indigiearth Cafe Ethnobotany

Listen in, be inspired by Gerry Turpin, a Mbabaram Traditional Owner who is 'as far as he knows' the first fully trained Indigenous Ethnobotanist in Australia who has helped seed and lead groundbreaking, research that bridges two worlds and empowers Elders and communities to research, record, protec...

12/12/2022

SOIL HEALTH 4 FOOD NUTRITION: 'GROW FOOD - Eco-Logically' is a new, free resource researched and written by Dr Wendy Seabrook, Founder and Director, Learning from Nature, Cooktown. Wendy is an expert in this space, a longstanding colleague of RIG Network. Very happy to spread the word about Wendy's great new work to support farmers, community and home gardeners grow healthy soils & nutrient dense food. Bravo Wendy! and thank you...

"Our soils need biodiverse communities of microbes and other soil organisms, complex processes and functional interconnections to create organic matter, recycle nutrients, supply them to plants, and maintain an infrastructure supporting healthy root growth and soil life. Having loads of organic matter and microbes in our soil, ’in and of themselves’, doesn’t make our food more nutritious!"

Discover why repairing your soil ecosystem is the best way to grow nutritious food. It's not difficult or expensive to do - it's eco-logical!

28/10/2022

Thinking of everyone affected by the floods & sending very best stay safe & hang in there as the weather heats up, more mozzies & the rest...

16/10/2022

Get to it... thanks Lachie for sharing Lachlan McKenzie

06/10/2022

PLEASE CONSIDER! Hi there, I did this course 2 years ago and it really is so helpful, uplifting...cannot recommend the Course highly enough. Cynthia is a dear friend, Foodswell Board member (& past Chair). She is an amazing facilitator, kind deep thinker (of ISF UTS renown) and now offering this wonderful MBSR Mindfulness Course commencing next week. MBSR techniques, thinking and experiential learning methods are really well respected/rigorous, tried and true, well supported internationally. Contact Cynthia by email for a chat and to learn more.

Or email me@ [email protected] and I can shoot you flyer/info.

26/09/2022

Part 2 of my good long yarn with Daryn McKenny .... listen in!

And don't miss Part 2 of my conversation with Daryn that digs in to talk about the technologies, tools and support that Miromaa offer and provide (free) to First Peoples to help them to preserve, conserve and re-aninmate languages in-situ, on country and beyond. Inspirational, can do , get to it change making stuff. Just love it. Thank you Daryn.

Miromaa Aboriginal Language & Technology Centre First Alliance Academic Languages

23/09/2022

LISTEN IN on NOURISHING MATTERS to hear from Daryn McKenny - one of those modest, super inspiring 'can do' people: who gets out there and does amazing work with First People's to help preserve, conserve and revitalise their languages - here and internationally.

2022 marks the beginning of the UN International Decade of Indigenous Languages. Daryn is a Gamilaraay and Wiradjuri man born on Awabakal country, where he lives and Founded the Miromaa Aboriginal Language and Technology Centre, an organisation that plays a vital role in language revitalisation and advocacy. Hear the story of how things got underway in 2002, first with a focus to revive the Awabakal language and culture in Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and the Lower Hunter Valley.

Miromaa is an Awabakal word, meaning "Saved, to stop from loss" and that's what Daryn, his team and the technologies they've developed and freely share with First Nation's peoples here and around the world do in practical, creative and inspiring ways.

As Daryn shares, protecting, knowing and using language is not just for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people - it's for all of us, wherever we're from, so we can together better hear, see and care for country and this beautiful place we call home.

Saving precious languages from extinction - for people, culture, country. One of my all time favorite NM guests... such a privilege, pleasure to speak with you Daryn. Love your work and the spirit of what you and Miromaa do.... thank you.
Miromaa Aboriginal Language & Technology Centre Awabakal Ltd NITV ABC Australia Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Northern Institute National Rural Health Alliance Landcare NSW Puliima Indigenous Language & Technology Conference Jimmy Cocking Australian Native Plants & Bush Tucker Indigiearth & Warakirri Cafe/ Dining IndigiGrow Native Bushfoods & Plants Gianna Gi

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2022 marks the beginning of the UN International Decade of Indigenous Languages. First Nation's languages are precious and many are on the precipice of loss, so now, more than ever, it's critical to preserve and conserve them. Listen in to the first of two parts of my great conversation with Daryn M...

23/09/2022

Amazing that its a year since this Ep went out ...but good news, lots happening in NSW with more Indigenous Rangers at LLS and good things/new relationships growing on the ground/in communities with Landcare NSW

Bidgee Irrigation Murrumbidgee Landcare Landcare NSW

With Craig Aspinall, Landcare NSW - on Working Together - listen@
https://omny.fm/shows/nourishing/working-together-landcare-nsw-aboriginal-engagemen