South Australian Native Food Calendar 2022
A month-by-month native food education resource
JANUARY FEATURE: WATTLESEED
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All about wattleseed
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The life of a Wattleseed harvester
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Recipes & Shop
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Buy Extract
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Growing wattleseed
FEBRURARY FEATURE: SAMPHIRE
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![Dark green knobbly spriggs of samphire against white marble background]()
All about samphire
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![A glass bowl of bright green pickled samphire seasoned with red pepper]()
Quick Pickled Samphire
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![Delicious looking bowl of gnocchi tossed in cooked samphire and other green herbs]()
Recipes
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![A martini glass with a champagne coloured cocktail on a sandy background with a mini blue beach chair and conch shell]()
Growing & culinary uses
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![A samphire bush with red stems and green tips]()
Growing & sourcing
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![Booklet cover with a purple background and pictures of samphire bushes]()
Guide to Adelaide samphires
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![Frame is full of blue-green long leaves on stems]()
Differentiating different samphires
MARCH FEATURE: RIVER MINT
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![Close-up of bright green bushy mint leaves]()
All about river mint
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![Close-up of bright green bushy mint leaves]()
How to Grow
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![Top view of three gin glasses filled with strawberries and mint leaves on a metal serving tray]()
Uses & Recipes
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![A bright green round tea cylinder on a white background with a Warndu label]()
Warndu tea blends
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![Top view of a bowl of 3 scoops of white sorbet garnished with mint]()
Rivermint Sorbet
APRIL FEATURE: DESERT LIME
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![A closeup of yellow-green round desert limes on a branch with dark green long slender leaves surrounding them]()
All about desert lime
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![Closeup of cut limes on a white background]()
Nutrition & culinary uses
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![A black packet with a yellow-green round label on a white background]()
Buy freeze-dried lime
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![Sapling trees in black tubs]()
Grow & buy the trees
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![a bowl of avocado dip sitting next to 2 whole avocados, a bulb of garlic, some desert limes and pepperberries on a green surface]()
Avocado, lime and pepperberry dip recipe
MAY FEATURE: BUSH TOMATO
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![a closeup of approximately 20 brown wrinkly dried bush tomatoes.]()
All about Bush Tomato
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![A black packet with a dark red sticker that says Warndu bush tomato, on a beige background]()
Uses, Recipes, Shop dried bush tomato
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![An image of bush tomato plant, with long earthy green leaves that curl from the edges, and small purple flowers which look like a 5 point star.]()
Buy and propagate from seed
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![A top view of a white dinner plate with some roasted capsicum, shallots and baby spinach]()
How to cook with bush tomato
JUNE FEATURE: OLD MAN SALTBUSH
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![closeup of silvery green rounded saltbush leaves]()
How to grow
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![A few sprigs of silvery green saltbush leaves on a white marble tabletop]()
All about Old Man Saltbush
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![Closeup of two hands holding some snippers and a leaf]()
How to harvest
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![A white packet with a label on it from Australian Bushfood Company, infront is a small white bowl with a green powder inside]()
Buy dried saltbush
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![A birdeye view of a crusty vienna loaf of break with black seeds on top]()
Saltbush soda bread
JULY FEATURE: EMU BUSH (EREMOPHILA ALTERNIFOLIA)
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![a bunch of bright pink flowers set on stems with long green leaes]()
How to grow
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![a bottle of essential oil]()
Essential Oils and Teas
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![closeup of emu bush flower]()
All about emu bush
AUGUST FEATURE: RUBY SALTBUSH (ENCHYLAENA TOMENTOSA)
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All about Ruby Saltbush
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![closeup of hundreds of dark red berries growing on a bush]()
How To Grow
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![closeup of berries in red, pink, oragne and yello]()
Photo Gallery to help ID plants
SEPTEMBER FEATURE: MUNTRIES (KUNZEA POMIFERA)
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![small muntrie berries dispersed on a white background]()
Uses & Recipes
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Buy muntries Powder
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![closeup of muntries growing on a bush]()
How to Grow
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![ice cream cone sitting next to a tub with one scoop of icecream]()
Buy Muntries Ice Cream
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![branches with green leaves and white flowers attached to a metal stake]()
Muntries industry in Australia
OCTOBER FEATURE: COASTAL ROSEMARY (OLEARIA AXILLARIS)
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![closeup of silvery grey leaves of coastal rosemary bush]()
How to eat and Grow
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![leaves of rosemary against a white background]()
Buy infused oil
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![closeup top view of foccacia with rosemary on top]()
Foccacia recipe
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![bottle of gin sitting in the sand with ocean in background]()
Buy native rosemary gin
NOVEMBER FEATURE: KARKALLA (CARPOBROTUS ROSSI)
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![Pink flowers with narrow petals and a white centre over long triangular shaped green leaves]()
Gorwing Karkalla
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![A hand holding a white ceramic tub of sticky brown jam]()
Pigface Jam Recipe
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![endive cups with filling on a wooden chopping boards]()
Pork Date and Pigface Cups Recipe
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![long green cylindrical leaves of pigfaceplant with a pink flower in the bottom right corner]()
Eat your weeds: Pigface
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![sand dunes covered with crawling green pigface with bright pink flowers]()
Habitat
DECEMBER FEATURE: QUANDONG (SANTALUM ACUMINATUM)
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![a snapshot of a brochure with pictures of quandong halves across the top]()
All about Quandong
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![Book cover: black background with green leaves and bright red quandong berries]()
Jewel of the Australian Desert by Neville Bonney
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![top view of a round pastry pie]()
Native Peach Pie Recipe
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![red outlined illustration of three quandong berries on a stem with a red circle around them]()
Annual Quandong Festival (Quorn SA)
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![Packet of freeze-dried quandong]()
Buy Quandong for cooking
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![Screenshot showing 6 images of different quandong dishes]()
Quandong Recipes
