Nyanda

28/01/2025

Cultural amnesia or deliberate historical whitewashing?

More than likely a horrible, intentional and culturally egocentric denial of historical reality.

Surely we can do better than this when so many want to work together?

Repost from

23/01/2025

61 best recipes using Australian native ingredients 😋🤤 who’s going to try some of these from ?

23/01/2025

Some delicious native food suggestions here from Gourmet Traveller! 😋 what do ya reckon?
Three Little Birds Events can you whip up a few of these pleeeeease 🙏🏽

These recipes showcase the richness and diversity of native Australian ingredients, from lemon myrtle and saltbush to finger lime and wattle.

20/01/2025

Troubling to say the least 😞

700 MILLION bottles worth of microplastics found in Moreton Bay 🍾🌊

A new research paper has dropped a bombshell: there are roughly 7,000 tonnes of plastic waste (microplastics and nanoplastics) in the surface sediments of Moreton Bay. This is equal to 700 million half-litre plastic bottles threatening this important ecosystem 😱.

The most abundant microplastic was polyethylene (PE), globally used in everything from chip packets to shopping bags.

Healthy Land & Water’s Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program (EHMP) contributes to waterway health. In 2022 it funded a mud survey after the floods. The same mud samples were analysed for plastics and the results were used as part of this research.

Want the details?

Read the study at The Conversation website: https://theconversation.com/700-million-plastic-bottles-we-worked-out-how-much-microplastic-is-in-queenslands-moreton-bay-238892

Read more about the threat of microplastics in our article here: https://hlw.org.au/news/microplastics-a-threat-hiding-in-plain-sight

19/12/2024

‘APPEAL TO PRESERVE NUDGEE BORA GROUND‘

Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Monday 7 December 1942, page 2.

17/12/2024

Not that this fella needs any help from us to look deadly, but here are a few good shots of Derek Sandy from instructing Japanese visitors on a recent tour on the art of didjeridoo performance!

12/12/2024

10/12/2024

This depiction of Geraldton Wax was painted by the very talented Djoda Canning 🥀🥀🥀

25/11/2024

‘Riberry’
a water-colour by Tanya Bonner 🍒🍃

Looking after country takes on many forms and translating field work and native botanical identification into visual art is part of this process and a highly effective means of retaining information.

Part of Nyanda’s recent ‘Yagara On-Country Learning Project’ with arts facilitator .crosswell. Such a wonderful and therapeutic day.

23/11/2024

What a beautiful day shared between Yagara women and arts facilitator and scientific illustrator .crosswell.

Nicole guided students through several art styles as part of Nyanda’s ‘Yagara On-Country Learning Project’, specialising in the identification and recording of Yagara native botanical species.

Stay tuned! We can’t wait to show you some of the results!

Nyanda’s Yagara On-Country Learning Project is supported by

18/11/2024

Dealing out some of our wild harvested native berries as part of a recent tour with 🫐🍊🍒😋

11/11/2024

Congratulations to Katherine Sullivan and Glenda Harward-Nalder for their contribution to Yagara language revitalisation with the release of their ‘Yagara Dictionary and Salvage Grammar’ 🥰

Language revitalisation is a long, but highly rewarding journey.

08/11/2024

‘A Library of Country’

You may have heard of scar trees, but how about trees-in-trees? These different types of "modified trees" tell a story about Indigenous culture, if you know how to read them.

07/11/2024

Nyanda was proud to assist Economic Development Queensland in developing its Traditional Owner Engagement Protocol for the Northshore Priority Development Area.

The creation and implementation of the protocol is a demonstration of best practise engagement and a model to be aspired to and upheld in both government and private enterprise.

“The Protocol serves as a guide to ensure that EDQ staff meaningfully engage with Traditional Owners, establishing principles around the best processes for listening, learning, developing relationships and helping Traditional Owner families build capacity throughout the precinct’s development.”

05/11/2024

Beautiful Flax Lily (Dianella) lining the paths along and around Nar-dah (place of the black duck)

04/11/2024

Did you know that this binkin (freshwater turtle) lends its name to the word binkinba or Pinkenbah a local Yagara language word for the place of the freshwater turtle? 🐢 New Farm was originally called Binkinba by traditional custodians.
This binkin is one of the many residents of the Nar-dah Nudgee Waterhole Reserve coming up to say hi and see what we’re doing!

01/11/2024

The recent rains have made our pink lime berries (Glycosmis Trifoliata) nice and juicy 😋
These ones are pretty easy to propagate with a bit of TLC 😍

26/10/2024

An extraordinary map has been created to record Noongar place names of significant Perth locations and how people lived on the land prior to colonisation.

23/10/2024

Last week it was wonderful having the children participate in our native vegetation identification workshop as part of Nyanda’s Yagara On-Country Learning Project.
We worked with botanist Lorna Ngugi who is doing her PhD in native bushfoods.
It was a very hot day, but we all learnt so much!

09/10/2024

A very informative read concerning black cladding, how it is hurting mob and authentic black businesses.

To qualify as an Indigenous business, an organisation needs to be minimum 51 per cent Aboriginal-owned or controlled. Some say this isn't enough and that the system is being gamed.

05/10/2024

Culturally modified tree. The old people were here