Season 3, Episode 6. Aaron Chatfield Talks Indigenous Foods

Fiona and Aaron outside Gungaderra Homestead. Photo: Julie Boulton

Aaron Chatfield is the owner operator of Dreamtime Connections a business he has built to share Indigenous Culture and native foods with the community especially schools. Aaron’s vision is for every school to have a bush tucker garden. 

Fiona and Julie chat to Aaron about the role of native plants within the local foodscape, and here all about his incredible education initiative in local school connecting students with native foods.

“Telling the kids that, yeah, these are native plants from around Canberra that have been used by indigenous peoples for thousands of years. It's important that we don't just start going out Bush and start ripping them out and start using them for whatever. Instead, how about we look at creating gardens at school or at home where they can become an educational space where we can learn about these plants and then learn how to better protect them out in the Bush.” 

Aaron Chatfield